Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics

Miranda A. Schreurs, Henrik Selin, Stacy D. VanDeveer0754675971, 9780754675976, 9780754695899

Environmental and energy policies have become increasingly significant in European and North American politics. This fascinating book uses a wide range of case studies that embrace climate change, product standards, chemical regulations, renewable energy policies, food safety and genetically-modified organisms to examine areas of conflict and cooperation in the transatlantic relationship. While there are many areas where the European Union and the United States are following divergent policy paths, there are also many signs that a more cooperative transatlantic relationship could emerge in the future. “Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics” is highly relevant to understanding how the European Union and North America can cooperate more effectively in meeting today’s many global environmental and energy policy challenges. It is essential reading for all advanced students and scholars.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 6
List of Figures and Tables……Page 8
Contributors……Page 10
Acknowledgments……Page 12
Abbreviations……Page 14
1 Expanding Transatlantic Relations: Implications for Environment and Energy Politics……Page 18
PART I Governing Within and Beyond the State: Comparative Environmental Governance and its Implications for Policy Development……Page 36
2 Governance for Sustainable Development: The United States and the European Union Compared……Page 38
3 Intergovernmental Management of Environmental Policy in the United States and the EU……Page 58
PART II Governing Risk: Chemical Regulations, Asbestos Bans, Product Standards, and Genetically Modified Organisms……Page 72
4 Transatlantic Politics of Chemicals Management……Page 74
5 Oceans Apart? Policy Reversals, Transatlantic Politics, and the EU Asbestos Ban……Page 92
6 Targeting Consumer Product Environmental Impacts across the Atlantic……Page 110
7 Transatlantic Food Fights in an Era of Globalization: When Menus, Rules and Choices Collide……Page 130
8 Implications of the Transatlantic Biotech Dispute for Developing Countries……Page 144
PART III Governing Carbon: Renewable Energy and Climate Change……Page 160
9 Promotion of Renewable Electricity in the United States and the European Union: Policy Progress and Prospects……Page 162
10 Conflict and Cooperation in Transatlantic Climate Politics: Different Stories at Different Levels……Page 182
PART IV Governing Global Markets: Environmental Standards and Certification Approaches……Page 204
11 Export Promotion, Trade, and the Environment: Negotiating Environmental Standards for Export Credit Agencies across the Atlantic……Page 206
12 The Emergence of Non-State Environmental Governance in European and North American Forest Sectors……Page 226
13 Mad Cows and Ailing Hens: The Transatlantic Relationship and Livestock Diseases……Page 248
Conclusion……Page 266
14 Transatlantic Environmental Relations: Implications for the Global Community……Page 268
References……Page 284
Index……Page 332