The Origins of Energy and Environmental Policy in Europe
This book explains the connection between energy and environmental policies in Europe, theorising the existence of a European environmental conscience, which could lead future European energy policy.
This book examines European integration through the lens of energy and the environment, analysing the repercussions of the oil crisis in 1973 in Britain, France and Germany. It considers the breakdown of European solidarity over energy security, and ties this to the dawn of an agenda of energy saving and efficiency, in line with a developing environmental conscience across Europe. This book posits a developing environmental conscience across Europe as the reason why today the European Commission can put forward ambitious cross-border environmental programmes. The author argues that only by considering energy and environmental policy together can either be successful. He concludes that a European energy policy is inevitable, because a successful policy of environmental protection cannot be implemented without integration of the energy sector.
The Origins of Energy and Environmental Policy in Europe will be of interest to students and scholars of European Integration, European Union politics and history and environmental politics and policy.
Thomas C. Hoerber is Associate Professor at the Centre for European Integration at the Ecole Suprieure des Sciences Commerciales (ESSCA), LUNAM University in Angers, France.
Environmental Politics / Routledge Research in Environmental Politics
Edited by Professor Steve Vanderheiden (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Over recent years environmental politics has moved from a peripheral interest to a central concern within the discipline of politics. This series aims to reinforce this trend through the publication of books that investigate the nature of contemporary environmental politics and show the centrality of environmental politics to the study of politics per se. The series understands politics in a broad sense and books will focus on mainstream issues such as the policy process and new social movements as well as emerging areas such as cultural politics and political economy. Books in the series will analyse contemporary political practices with regards to the environment and/or explore possible future directions for the greening of contemporary politics. The series will be of interest not only to academics and students working in the environmental field, but will also demand to be read within the broader discipline.
The series consists of two strands:
Environmental Politics addresses the needs of students and teachers, and the titles will be published in paperback and hardback. Titles include:
Global Warming and Global Politics
Matthew Paterson
Politics and the Environment
James Connelly and Graham Smith
International Relations Theory and Ecological Thought
Towards Synthesis
Eric Laferrire and Peter Stoett
Planning Sustainability
Edited by Michael Kenny and James Meadowcroft
Deliberative Democracy and the Environment
Graham Smith
EU Enlargement and the Environment
Institutional change and environmental policy in Central and Eastern Europe
Edited by JoAnn Carmin and Stacy D. VanDeveer
The Crisis of Global Environmental Governance
Towards a new political economy of sustainability
Edited by Jacob Park, Ken Conca and Matthias Finger
Routledge Research in Environmental Politics presents innovative new research intended for high-level specialist readership. These titles are published in hardback only and include:
1 The Emergence of Ecological Modernisation
Integrating the environment and the economy?
Stephen C Young
2 Ideas and Actions in the Green Movement
Brian Doherty
3 Russia and the West
Environmental cooperation and conflict
Geir Hnneland
4 Global Warming and East Asia
The domestic and international politics of climate change
Edited by Paul G. Harris
5 Europe, Globalization and Sustainable Development
Edited by John Barry, Brian Baxter and Richard Dunphy
6 The Politics of GM Food
A comparative study of the UK, USA and EU
Dave Toke
7 Environmental Policy in Europe
The Europeanization of national environmental policy
Edited by Andrew Jordan and Duncan Liefferink
8 A Theory of Ecological Justice
Brian Baxter
9 Security and Climate Change
International relations and the limits of realism
Mark J. Lacy
10 The Environment and International Politics
International fisheries, Heidegger and social method
Hakan Seckinelgin
11 Postmodern Climate Change
Leigh Glover
12 Contemporary Environmental Politics
From margins to mainstream
Edited by Piers H.G. Stephens, with John Barry and Andrew Dobson
13 Sustainable Consumption, Ecology and Fair Trade
Edited by Edwin Zacca
14 Environmental Governance in ChinaEdited by Neil Carter and
Arthur P. J. Mol
15 Global Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance
Ethics, sustainable development and international cooperation
Chukwumerije Okereke
16 The Politics of Unsustainability
Eco-politics in the post-ecologist era
Ingolfur Blhdorn and Ian Welsh
17 International Organizations in Global Environmental Governance
Edited by Frank Biermann, Bernd Siebenhner and Anna Schreygg
18 Regulation Theory and Sustainable Development
Business leaders and ecological modernisation
Corinne Gendron
19 International Environmental Agreements
An introduction
Edited by Steinar Andresen, Elin Lerum Boasson and Geir Hnneland
20 The Origins of Energy and Environmental Policy in Europe
The beginnings of a European environmental conscience
Thomas C. Hoerber
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