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The Environment and the European Public Sphere: Perceptions, Actions, Policies

  • Christian Wenkel (editor)
  • Eric Bussière (editor)
  • Anahita Grisoni (editor)
  • Hélène Miard-Delacroix (editor)
Metadata
TitleThe Environment and the European Public Sphere
SubtitlePerceptions, Actions, Policies
ContributorChristian Wenkel (editor)
Eric Bussière (editor)
Anahita Grisoni (editor)
Hélène Miard-Delacroix (editor)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3197/63811648691469.book
Landing pagehttps://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2020/09/16/the-environment-and-the-european-public-sphere/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
CopyrightThe White Horse Press
PublisherThe White Horse Press
Publication placeWinwick, UK
Published on2020-09-15
ISBN978-1-912186-14-3 (Hardback)
978-1-912186-19-8 (PDF)
Short abstractDrawing on recent research results from various disciplines, including history, sociology, law and political sciences, this volume addresses the methodological challenge of a European perspective on a transnational subject – one that is commonly distorted by a national prism. It shows how perceptions of the environment are increasingly converging and how these convergences of views across political or linguistic borders in the long run exert an undeniable influence not only on political debates but also on political decisions across Europe.
Long abstractSince the 1970s, environmental issues have become a major concern for European citizens and thus for European politicians. In the same time frame the political sphere in Europe, and in particular within the European Union, has also been undergoing major transformations. Dealing with environmental issues over more than fifty years in a historical perspective enables us to gain a better understanding of these transformations, notably the emergence of a European public sphere and how this is changing decision-making processes. Drawing on recent research results from various disciplines, including history, sociology, law and political sciences, this volume addresses the methodological challenge of a European perspective on a transnational subject – one that is commonly distorted by a national prism. It shows how perceptions of the environment are increasingly converging and how these convergences of views across political or linguistic borders in the long run exert an undeniable influence not only on political debates but also on political decisions across Europe. Revealing European characteristics of perceptions, debates and policies, this volume contributes to a history of Europeanisation beyond the usual political turning points and limits.
Print length358 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Media4 illustrations
4 tables
THEMA
  • GTM
  • RNK
BIC
  • HBJD
  • RNB
  • 1D
  • 1QFE
BISAC
  • SOC053000
  • NAT011000
Keywords
  • public policy
  • environment
  • Europe
  • EU
Funding
Contents

Editor's Introduction

(pp. 1–16)
  • Anahita Grisoni
  • Christian Wenkel
  • Eric Bussière
  • Hélène Miard-Delacroix

The First International Congress for the Protection of Landscapes: A European Convergence?

(pp. 19–36)
  • Charles-François Mathis

The Historical Roots of the European Culture of Catastrophes

(pp. 37–53)
  • François Walter

Europe and Chernobyl: Contested Localisations of the Accident’s Environmental, Political, Social and Cultural Impact

(pp. 54–69)
  • Karena Kalmbach

The Western European Public Sphere and the Environment in Eastern Europe during the Cold War: Between Model, Utilisation and Denunciation

(pp. 70–88)
  • Michel Dupuy

The Impact of East German Nature Conservationists on the European Environmental Consciousness in the 20th Century

(pp. 91–107)
  • Astrid Mignon Kirchhof

Wetlands of Protest. Seeking Transnational Trajectories in Hungary’s Environmental Movement

(pp. 108–123)
  • Daniela Neubacher

Towards a ‘Europe of Struggles’?: Three Visions of Europe in the Early Anti-Nuclear Energy Movement 1975–79

(pp. 124–146)
  • Andrew Tompkins

Entering the European Political Arena, Adapting to Europe: Greenpeace International 1987–93

(pp. 147–162)
  • Liesbeth van de Grift
  • Hans Rodenburg
  • Guus Wieman

The Development of Green Parties in Europe: Obstacles and Opportunities 1970–2015

(pp. 165–180)
  • Emilie van Haute

Will Europe Ever Become ‘Green’?: The Green Parties’ Pro-European and Federalist Turning Point since the 1990s

(pp. 181–194)
  • Giorgio Grimaldi

A Touch of Green Amid the Grey. Europe During the Formative Phase of the German Greens from the 1970s to the 1980s: Between Rejection and Reformulation

(pp. 195–204)
  • Silke Mende

Energy and the Environment in Parliamentary Debates in the Federal Republic of Germany, United Kingdom and France from the 1970s to the 1990s

(pp. 205–220)
  • Eva Oberloskamp

Responding to the European Public?: Public Debates, Societal Actors and the Emergence of a European Environmental Policy

(pp. 223–243)
  • Jan-Henrik Meyer

The Major Stages in the Construction of European Environmental Law

(pp. 244–262)
  • Sophie Baziadoly

Multi-Level Learning: How the European Union Draws Lessons from Water Management at the River Basin Level

(pp. 263–282)
  • Marjolein van Eerd
  • Duncan Liefferink

Environmental Protection and the Evolution of the French and German Energy Systems from 1973 to the 2000s

(pp. 283–298)
  • Christopher Fabre

Trajectories of European Environmental Governance over Time

(pp. 299–322)
  • Anthony R. Zito
Contributors

Christian Wenkel

(editor)
Associate Professor of Contemporary History at Artois University

Christian Wenkel is associate professor of contemporary history at Artois University. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Munich and Sciences Po Paris, he was a senior research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Paris and at the Laboratoire d’excellence ‘Ecrire une histoire nouvelle de l’Europe’ at Sorbonne University. His research interests cover the Franco-German relationship, the Cold War, European integration and phenomena of Europeanisation in the long twentieth century. He recently co-edited a special issue of Comparativ on transnational spheres of communication in Europe from 1914 to 1945 (2018).

Eric Bussière

(editor)
Professor Emeritus; Jean Monnet Chair in the history of European integration at Sorbonne Université

Eric Bussière is Professor Emeritus at Sorbonne University and Jean Monnet Chair in the history of European integration; and was founding director of the Laboratoire d’excellence ‘Ecrire une histoire nouvelle de l’Europe’ (2012–2018). A member of several scientific councils, he is also corresponding member of the Academy of History of Portugal. Author and editor of numerous publications on economic history and the history of European integration, he is editor of Histoire, Economie et société (HES) and co-editor of The European Commission – History and Memories of an Institution 1958–2000 (3 vols, 2007–2019).

Anahita Grisoni

(editor)
Affiliate researcher at the research unit ‘Environnement, ville, société’ at Catholic University of Lyon

Anahita Grisoni is a French sociologist and urban planner, affiliated to the research unit ‘Environnement, ville, société’ at the University of Lyon. Author of several books about green transition, she currently leads the French think tank ‘La fabrique écologique’.

Hélène Miard-Delacroix

(editor)
Professor at the Department of German Studies at Sorbonne Université

Hélène Miard-Delacroix is an historian and currently professor at the Department of German Studies at Sorbonne University in Paris. She is a member of the research group SIRICE (Sorbonne - Identités, relations internationales et civilisation de l’Europe). Her research focuses on the history of Germany since 1945, in particular the history of the Franco-German relationship and of the German contribution to the European integration process. Among her various publications is a transnational Franco-German history since 1963 published in French and in German (2011). She is also member of the Academic Committee of the House of European History in Brussels.