LAW, GOVERNANCE & GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
WORKSHOP SERIES

presents

Professor Barry Rabe

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

The Absence of Governance:

Climate Change Policy in Canada and the United States

Thursday, September 11, 2008

12:30 – 2:00

Solarium (Room FA2) – Falconer Hall

Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

84 Queen’s Park

Barry Rabe's seminar will examine the evolution of climate policy in the United States and Canada, placing particular emphasis on the roles of states and provinces.  It will highlight the unexpectedly robust level of American state policy development and consider the challenges and opportunities that this presents for future federal policy development.  The seminar will contrast this with continuing policy developments in Canada, considering possible areas of policy convergence between the two nations in coming years.

Barry Rabe is a professor at the University of Michigan, holding appointments in the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy and the School of Natural Resources and Environment.  He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, which has published his three most recent books, including Statehouse and Greenhouse:  The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy.  In 2005, this book received the Caldwell Award from the American Political Science Association as the best book published on environmental policy in the past three years.  During the current academic year, Rabe is a visiting professor at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, where he is taking a lead role in convening a National Conference on Climate Governance in December 2008. In 2006, Rabe became the first social scientist to win a Climate Protection Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

This workshop is co-sponsored by the Munk Centre for International Studies (Global Environmental Politics Program), University of Toronto.

For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.