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The new edition of this award-winning volume reflects the latest events in the in global environmental politics and sustainable development, while providing balanced coverage of the key institutions, environmental issues, treaties, and policies. The book highlights global environmental institutions, major state and non-state actors, and includes a wide range of cases such as climate change, biodiversity, hazardous chemicals, ozone layer depletion, nuclear energy and resource consumption.
Promoting Environmental Protection in the European Union
Promoting Environmental Protection in the European Union
The European Union has transformed environmental policy making at the local, national, European, and global levels. The establishment of a common internal economic market in Europe contributed to the opening of national borders and the harmonization of many policies once in the exclusive domain of individual member states. The EU has established some of the strongest and most innovative environmental protection measures in the world. In principle, environmental protection enjoys equal weight with economic development in EU policy making. It is remarkable that despite its mix of countries and cultures—some rich, some relatively poor—the EU has managed to introduce ...
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