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The Origins of Energy and Environmental Policy in Europe : the Beginnings of a European Environmental Conscience.

This book examines the development of a European environmental conscience through successive steps of European integration in energy policy. In the 1960s-70s, the world was slowly beginning to realise that environment degradation was not sustainable. With phenomena such as acid rain, it became clear...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoerber, Thomas C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Routledge research in environmental politics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • The Origins of Energy and Environmental Policy in Europe: The beginnings of a European environmental conscience
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Acronyms
  • I Introduction
  • Research questions
  • Methodology
  • Meta-theory
  • Habermas
  • Gadamer
  • Braudel
  • Original integration theory
  • Monnet/Schuman
  • De Gaulle/Debré
  • Adenauer
  • Applied integration theory
  • Parsons
  • Senge
  • Conclusion
  • Timeframe
  • Geographical choice
  • Sources
  • National parliamentary debates
  • European Parliament
  • Council of Ministers: COREPER Reports
  • Commission: General Reports
  • Commission: Procès-Verbaux Spéciaux
  • A European response to energy dependence?
  • Outlook
  • II Energy and environment
  • Introduction
  • 1 ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT: COAL
  • Energy: coal
  • The decline of the coal industry
  • Rearguard class struggle
  • Energy independence
  • Environment: coal in the 1970s
  • Technical research on coal
  • Literature review
  • Conclusion: coal
  • 2 ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT: OIL
  • Energy: oil
  • The beginnings of the oil crisis, 1973
  • The oil crisis
  • A European energy policy and the breakdown of European solidarity
  • Energy shortage (from 1973)
  • Environment: oil
  • Environmental concerns
  • Literature review
  • Conclusion: oil
  • 3 ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT: ATOM
  • Energy: atom
  • National nuclear fission programmes
  • Military collaboration
  • Research collaboration
  • Nuclear fusion
  • Environment: atom
  • Waste heat
  • Radiation
  • Nuclear accidents
  • Nuclear tests
  • Nuclear waste
  • Literature review
  • Conclusion: atom
  • 4 ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT: CONCLUSION
  • Repercussions of the oil crisis
  • Energy mix
  • Energy saving (from 1973)
  • Energy efficiency (mainly from 1973)
  • A European energy policy
  • Literature review
  • III Environment
  • Introduction.
  • Governmental structure for environmental politics
  • Definition of the environment
  • Importance of environmental issues
  • Pollution
  • Air pollution
  • Water pollution
  • Noise
  • Global warming
  • Conservation/environmental protection
  • Public health
  • European environmental policy
  • Waste
  • Recycling
  • Sustainable growth
  • Renewables
  • Water
  • Solar
  • Wind and other
  • Literature review
  • Environment: conclusion
  • IV Conclusion
  • The oil crisis and European integration
  • Britain and Europe
  • Literature critique
  • The Commission as the "brains" of the Community
  • Outlook
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.