The European Union as a leader in international climate change politics
By: edited by Rüdiger K. W. Wurzel and James Connelly
Series: Routledge / UACES contemporary European studies -- 15; Routledge/UACES contemporary European studies series -- 15.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780415580472; 9780203839959
Subjects: European Union; Climatic changes; Government policy; Environmental policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : European Union political leadership in international climate change politics / Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel and James Connelly; title: The European Union as a global environmental policy actor : climate change / John Vogler; title: The role of the Commission of the European Union : creating external coherence from internal diversity / Pamela M. Barnes; title: The European Paliament and climate change : from symbolism to heroism and back again / Charlotte Burns and Neil Carter; title: The Council, the European Council and international climate policy : from symbolic leadership to leadership by example / Sebastian Oberthür and Claire Dupont; title: The United Kingdom : a paradoxical leader? / Tim Rayner and Andrew Jordan; title: France's troubled bids to climate leadership / Joseph Szarka; title: German climate change policy : political and economic leadership / Martin Jänicke; title: The Netherlands : a case of 'cost-free leadership' / Duncan Liefferink and Kathrin Kirkel; title: Poland's climate change policy struggle : greening the East? / Karolina Jankowska; title: Spanish, EU and international climate change policies : download, catch up, and curb down / Oriol Costa; title: Business : the elephant in the room? / Wyn Grant; title: Environmental NGOs : taking a lead? / Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel and James Connelly; title: A green new deal : framing US climate leadership / Guri Bang and Miranda A. Schreurs; title: Towards a new world order for climate change : China and the European Union's leadership ambition / Xiudian Dai and Zhiping Diao; title: Conclusion : the European Union's leadership role in international climate change politics reassessed / Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel and James Connelly.