Environmental policy in the European Union (3rd Ed.)

The European Union (EU) has a hugely important effect on the way in which environmental policies are framed and implemented in many different parts of the world, but especially Europe. The new and comprehensively revised edition of this well known textbook provides a state of the art analysis of all the EU--s environmental policies. Comprising five parts, it covers the rapidly changing context in which EU policies are made, the key actors that interact to co-produce policy and the most salient dynamics of policy making ranging from decision making, through to implementation and evaluation. Written by leading experts in the field, individual chapters examine how the EU is responding to a multitude of different problems including biodiversity loss, climate change, energy insecurity, water and air pollution. They tease out the many important ways in which the EU--s policies on these topics co-evolve with national and international environmental policies. In this third edition a mixture of learning features are employed to ensure that undergraduate and postgraduate students fully understand how EU policies in this vital area developed in the past and how it they are now adapting to the rapidly evolving challenges of the 21st century.

1. European Union Environmental Policy: Contexts, Actors and Policy Dynamics Andrew Jordan Part 1: Contexts 2. The Establishment of EU Environmental Policy Christoph Knill and Duncan Liefferink 3. EU Environmental Policy after the Lisbon Treaty: comme ci, comme ça? David Benson and Camilla Adelle 4. Studying EU Environmental Policy Andrea Lenschow Part 2: Actors 5. Member States and the Council Rudiger Wurzel 6. The European Commission Emmanuelle Schön Quinlivan 7. The European Court of Justice and the Development of EU Environmental Law Ludwig Kramer 8. The European Parliament: still the EU--s environmental champion? Charlotte Burns 9. Lobbyists and Lobbying Camilla Adelle and Jason Anderson 10. Business Wyn Grant Part 3: Policy Dynamics 11. Agenda Setting Sebastiaan Princen 12. Policy Making? Proceduralisation? The Role of Impact Assessment Camilla Adelle 13. Policy Coordination Andrew Jordan, Adriaan Schout and Martin Unfried 14. Policy Implementation: a policy problem still awaiting a political solution Andrew Jordan and Jale Tosun 15. Policy Evaluation: how a simple idea is (not) practiced in a complex policy setting Per Mickwitz 16. International Policy: the EU and the Wider World Tom Delreux Part 4: Future Challenges 17. Expanding the Toolbox? Governing by Multiple Policy Instruments Andrew Jordan, David Benson, Rudiger Wurzel and Anthony Zito 18. Public Participation Irina Tanasescu 19. Sustainability Marc Pallemaerts Part 5: Conclusions 20. EU Environmental Policy at 40: Retrospect and Prospect Andrew Jordan