Browsing by Author "Herbstein, Tom"

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    An overview of international and national law issues arising from the development of Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) in South Africa
    (2007) Herbstein, Tom; Glazewski, Jan
    If the growth in greenhouse gas (GHG)1 emissions continues unabated, the atmosphere is heading towards trebling its stock of GHGs by the end of the century.2 This is the view of the 2006 British government commissioned Stern Report. Amongst many other equally serious changes to the climate, there is a 50% risk that temperatures will rise by up to 5 o C around the planet. At the current rate, according to the Stern Report, a rise of 2-3 o C is foreseeable within the ‘next fifty years or so'. This would lead to increased flooding, decreased water supplies, increased pressure on coastal areas, hundreds of millions of people displaced and unable to produce or purchase sufficient food, and an estimated 15 – 40 % of the world's flora and fauna would be wiped out.3
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    City of Cape Town Solar Water Heater By-law: Barriers to Implementation
    (Earthscan, London, 2012) Froestad, Jan; Shearing, Clifford; Herbstein, Tom; Grimwood, Sakina
    The study of implementation has had tremendous importance for the study of policy. It opened up the black box of ‘after-a-formal-decision’ politics and demonstrated, among other things, that the political process continues all the way through to the final output of the policy process (Bardach 1977). It addressed the complexity of achieving policy goals, offered new insights into the importance of lower-level actors in policy, and attended to the effects that clients and extra-government groups had on the policy result (Schofield 2001). It became one of the most important sources for the development of new perspectives that tried to capture how policy processes cross the public-private divide, as evidenced by the new focus on governance (Rhodes 1997) or networks (Marin and Mayntz 1991). Implementation research has been particularly valuable in two somewhat contradictory ways.
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