1st Edition
The European Environmental Conscience in EU Politics A Developing Ideology
Based on empirical studies of European energy and environmental policies, this book suggests that, in combination, these two policy fields form a consensus in the EU which might also become the basis for a new European ideology, namely European ‘sustainabilism’.
It asks why an environmental conscience has grown since the late 1960s in the industrialised world and shows that whilst there is undeniable environmental degradation during this time, and that a European environmental conscience has mainly developed through successive steps of European integration in energy policy. In this connection between energy and the environmental we find one driver for European integration and indeed European identity. If sustainabilism should become a European ideology, it will substantially influence the way future Europeans will live.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Studies, International Relations, Political Science, History, Economics, Sustainability Studies, Environmental and Energy Policies in Europe.
Introduction: The European environmental Conscience in EU Politics
Thomas Hoerber and Gabriel Weber
Part 1: Energy and Environment in the European Union
1. A Linked Emissions Trading Scheme under Alternative Scenarios: implications for Europe and Brazil
Thais Diniz Oliveira, Angelo Costa Gurgel and Steve Tonry
2. Has the Time Now Come for Emissions Trading Schemes to Make Full Contribution to Combating Climate Change?
Ian Barnes and Li Lin
3. Towards Ego-Ecology? How domestic demands challenge the European environmental conscience and EU politics
Thomas Hoerber, Kristina Kurze and Joel Kuenzer
4. The Continued Lack of an Environmental Conscience in EU Transport Policy after the Dieselgate Scandal
Helene Dyrhauge
5. The Integrating Power of the Environmentally Conscious Energy: Re-thinking Global Positioning of the EU
Tomasz Braun
Part 2: Environmental Policies in the European Union
6. The Effective Impact of European Waste Directives on Sustainability Transition
Carola Guyot Phung
7. The Time has Come! The Development of the European Environmental Conscience: Evidence from the Eurobarometer surveys from 1974 to 2020
Marjorie Tendero
8. A Growing European Environmental Conscience
Joel Kuenzer
Conclusion: A (European) Ideology for the 21st Century?
Thomas Hoerber, Gabriel Weber and Ignazio Cabras
Biography
Thomas Hoerber is Professor for European Studies, and Director of the EU-Asia Institute at ESSCA School of Management, France.
Gabriel Weber is Associate Professor Sustainability and Ecological Economics at the ESSCA, School of Management, Bordeaux, France.
