Overview
- Brings together top international scholars to systematically examine the EU’s external environmental policy
- Identifies the environmental norms, rules and policies that the EU aims to promote externally
- Investigates highly topical issues that have an influence on public life, such as climate change and water policies
Part of the book series: The European Union in International Affairs (EUIA)
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About this book
This book considers the environmental policies that the EU employs outside its borders. Using a systematic and coherent approach to cover a range of EU activities, environmental issues, and geographical areas, it charts the EU’s attempts to shape environmental governance beyond its borders. Key questions addressed include: What environmental norms, rules and policies does the EU seek to promote outside its territory? What types of activities does the EU engage in to pursue these objectives? How successful is the EU in achieving its external environmental policy objectives? What factors explain the degree to which the EU attains its goals? The book will be of interest to students and academics as well as practitioners in governments (both inside and outside of the EU), the EU institutions, think tanks, and research institutes.
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Keywords
- EU Environmental policy
- External Environmental Policies of the EU
- EU External governance
- rules and regulations of EU
- Multilateral Environmental Agreements
- global environmental governance
- international environmental governance
- climate diplomacy
- trade agreements and the environment
- development and the environment
- climate change and the EU
- water supplies and the EU
- biodiversity and the EU
- sustainable forest management and the EU
- EU's environment policy in Africa
- EU's environment policy in the USA
- EU's environment policy in Latin America
- EU's environment policy in China
- environmental norms and rules
- influence of the EU on global environmental policies
Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Instruments
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Issues
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Countries and Regions
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Outlook and Conclusions
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Reviews
“The European Union is widely acknowledged to be a leader in global environmental policy, but how exactly does bring its influence to bear beyond its borders? The path-breaking scholarship in this book represents the first serious attempt to capture the sheer range and complexity of the EU’s external policy as it reaches within other societies. Rich in detail and insight it will remain an important point of reference.” (Professor John Vogler, Keele University UK)
“This very closely edited volume makes the very first systematic attempt to catalogue and explain the EU’s efforts to shape environmental quality well beyond its own borders. By bringing together leading experts on specific instruments, issues and geographical areas of influence in a unique and insightful way, it opens up a whole new perspective on the way that the EU is thought about in international affairs.” (Professor Andrew J Jordan, University of East Anglia, UK)
“The EU plays a critically important role in shaping global environmental policies but too much writing on the subject is self-congratulatory. This book offers a systematic and critical assessment of the effectiveness of EU external policy. It deserves to be read widely.” (Dr. Robert Falkner, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Camilla Adelle is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She has a particular interest in the EU’s pursuit of sustainable development beyond its borders, especially in Africa.
Diarmuid Torney is Lecturer in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. His research focuses on the comparative and global politics of climate change and energy, with a particular focus on the EU, China, and India.
Katja Biedenkopf is Assistant Professor of European and International Politics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. Her research centres on the external effects of EU environmental and climate policies, global environmental governance and climate diplomacy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: European Union External Environmental Policy
Book Subtitle: Rules, Regulation and Governance Beyond Borders
Editors: Camilla Adelle, Katja Biedenkopf, Diarmuid Torney
Series Title: The European Union in International Affairs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60931-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60930-0Published: 23 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86962-9Published: 30 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60931-7Published: 14 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-5911
Series E-ISSN: 2662-592X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 368
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Union Politics, Public Policy, Governance and Government, International Organization