Transatlantic environment and energy politics
Subtitle: comparative and international perspectives
By: by Miranda A. Schreurs, Henrik Selin, and Stacy D. VanDeveer.
Contributors: Selin, Henrik, 1971-; VanDeveer, Stacy D.
Series: Global environmental governance
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780754675976
Subjects: Sustainable development -- United States; Sustainable development -- European Union countries; Environmental policy -- United States; Environmental policy -- European Union countries; International cooperation
Description: Greater economic interdependence and the internationalization of trade in a number of products and services have intensified transnational relationships. But, where does the transatlantic divide lie? In answer, this book looks at the issues of global environmental governance, embracing climate change, energy, health and agriculture.
Table of contents: title: Expanding transatlantic relations : implications for environment and energy politics / Miranda A. Schreurs, Henrik Selin, and Stacy D. VanDeveer; title: Governance for sustainable development : the United States and the European Union compared / Elizabeth Bomberg; title: Intergovernmental management of environmental policy in the United States and the EU / Sonja Wälti; title: Transatlantic politics of chemicals management / Henrik Selin; title: Oceans apart : policy reversals, trans-atlantic politics, and the EU asbestos ban / Marcus Carson; title: Targeting consumer product environmental impacts across the Atlantic / Alastair Iles; title: Transatlantic food fights in an era of globalization : when menus, rules, and choices collide / Patricia M. Keilbach; title: Implications of the transatlantic biotech dispute for developing countries / Thomas Bernauer and Philipp Aerni; title: Promotion of renewable electricity in the United States and the European Union : policy progress and prospects / Ian H. Rowlands; title: Conflict and cooperation in transatlantic climate politics : different stories at different levels / Miranda A. Schreurs, Henrik Selin, and Stacy D. VanDeveer; title: Export promotion, trade, and the environment : negotiating environmental standards for export credit agencies across the Atlantic / Marcus Schaper; title: The emergence of non-state environmental governance in European and North American forest sectors / Benjamin Cashore, Graeme Auld, Deanna Newsom, and Elizabeth Egan; title: Mad cows and ailing hens : the transatlantic relationship and livestock diseases / Kate O'Neill; title: Transatlantic environmental relations : implications for the global community / Miranda A. Schreurs, Henrik Selin, and Stacy D. VanDeveer.