Screen LibraryGreening Europe : environmental protection in the long twentieth century : a handbook /
Today, the European environmental regime seems omnipresent. A rare beetle can stop a building project, the local water authorities have to make sure that the European Eel can reach his home waters after having travelled the Atlantic, European standards for air quality cause trouble for the German di...
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| Published: |
De Gruyter Oldenbourg,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Contemporary European history,
volume 1 De Gruyter reference |
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| Summary: |
Today, the European environmental regime seems omnipresent. A rare beetle can stop a building project, the local water authorities have to make sure that the European Eel can reach his home waters after having travelled the Atlantic, European standards for air quality cause trouble for the German diesel-driven car industry, and lighting products are subject to EU energy labelling and eco-design requirements. Implementing laws and sticking to environmental norms and standards has become an integral part of the European integration process. To the EU this is self-evident: "We share resources like water, air, natural habitats and the species they support, and we also share environmental standards to protect them." The idea of any such 'shared environment', however, has come a long way and is still being contested. Thinking and writing about the history of "protecting the environment" requires us to study the long 20th century. In order to understand the peculiar rise of Europe environmental regimes and green values we have to consider the modern concept of Europe as a shared geographical space, linked by habitats, migrating species, rivers, pollutants, climate and risks. Moreover, we have to analyse the 'invention' of conservation as a moral enterprise. That is why environmental history needs a long durée's perspective to understand the evolution of the European Common. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 472 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color), form ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9783110609653 3110609657 |
| Index Number: | TD171 |
| CLC: | X-015 |
| Call Number: | X-015/G813 |
| Contents: |
1. Introduction : Writing a European History of Environmental Protection / I. Conserving nature. Counting Birds: Protecting European Avifauna and Habitats / 4. Restoring, Reintroducing, Rewilding: Creating European Wilderness / Requires Authentication1016 Transcending the Cold War: Borders, Nature, and the European Green Belt Conservation Project along the Former Iron Curtain / II. Preserving livelhoods. Transforming Woodlands: European Forest Protection in a Global Context / Travelling (Western) Europe: Tourism, Regional Development, and Nature Protection / Moving Mountains: The Protection of the Alps / Negotiating the Maritime Commons: Protecting the Baltic Sea in a European Context / Recycling Europe's Domestic Wastes: The Hope of "Greening" Mass Consumption through Recycling / III. Sustaining environments. Visualizing the Invisible: Communicating Europe's Environment / Revealing Risks: European Moments in Nuclear Politics and the Anti-Nuclear Movement /r Astrid Mignon Kirchhof and Jan-Henrik Meyer. -- Combatting "Acid Rain": Protecting the Common European Sky / Developing Europe: The Formation of Sustainability Concepts and Activities / Europeanizing Biodiversity: International Organizations as Environmental Actors / Epilogue: The Nature of Europe / |