Greening Europe : environmental protection in the long twentieth century - a handbook / edited by Anna-Katharina Wöbse and Patrick Kupper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wöbse, Anna-Katharina, editor.

Kupper, Patrick, editor.

Series:

Studies in contemporary European history ; Volume 1.

Contemporary European history ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union.

Environmental policy.

Environmental protection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (482 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

On the “Contemporary European History” Handbook Series

1 Introduction: Writing a European History of Environmental Protection

I Conserving Nature

2 Counting Birds: Protecting European Avifauna and Habitats

3 Europe and its Environmental Other(s): Imagining Natures for “Global” Conservation

4 Restoring, Reintroducing, Rewilding: Creating European Wilderness

5 Protecting Eurofisch: An Environmental History of the European Eel and its Europeanness

6 Transcending the Cold War: Borders, Nature, and the European Green Belt Conservation Project along the Former Iron Curtain

II Preserving Livelihoods

7 Transforming Woodlands: European Forest Protection in a Global Context

8 Travelling (Western) Europe: Tourism, Regional Development, and Nature Protection

9 Moving Mountains: The Protection of the Alps

10 Negotiating the Maritime Commons: Protecting the Baltic Sea in a European Context

11 Recycling Europe’s Domestic Wastes: The Hope of “Greening” Mass Consumption through Recycling

III Sustaining Environments

12 Visualizing the Invisible: Communicating Europe’s Environment

13 Revealing Risks: European Moments in Nuclear Politics and the Anti-Nuclear Movement

14 Combatting “Acid Rain”: Protecting the Common European Sky

15 Developing Europe: The Formation of Sustainability Concepts and Activities

16 Europeanizing Biodiversity: International Organizations as Environmental Actors

17 Epilogue: The Nature of Europe

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Wöbse, Anna-Katharina Greening Europe

ISBN:

9783110665789

3110665786

9783110669213

3110669218

OCLC:

1291507145