Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic Perspective

Introduction; Manuela Achilles and Dana Elzey PART I. BROADER CONTEXTS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 1. Putting a Price on the Planet: Economic Valuation of Nature's Services; Mark White 2. International Trade and the Environment: Does Globalization Create Havens of Pollution?; Peter Debaere 3. New Directions in Green City Building; Timothy Beatley PART II. GERMANY'S ENERGY REVOLUTION 4. The German Green Party: From a Broad Social Movement to a People's Party; Arne Jungjohann 5. Germany's Ecological Tax Reform: A Retrospective; Michael Mehling 6. 'Nuclear Power? No, Thank You!': Germany's Energy Revolution Post-Fukushima; Manuela Achilles 7. Ambitions and Realities of the German Energy Revolution; Brian Marrs PART III. TRANSATLANTIC COOPERATION AT THE MACRO AND MICRO LEVELS 8. The Transatlantic Climate Bridge: Challenges and Opportunities; Anja Kueppers-McKinnon, Georg Maue and Carmen Kristan 9. Formalizing the Transfer and Application of Environmental Policies and Lessons From Germany to the United States: The Case of Northern Virginia; Dale Medearis 10. Cultivating the Cross-Cultural Engineer: Key Insights; Dana M. Elzey and Kerstin Steitz 11. Designing for the Anthropocene: The Duisburg RhinePark; Jorg Sieweke 12. Eco-Revelatory Design: An Approach you Can Bank On; Eugene Ryang