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

By Thomas Hoerber Copyright 2013
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

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 that pollution did not stop at national boundaries and the European environmental conscience... Read more

1. Introduction  Part 1: Energy & Environment  2. Coal  3. Oil  4. Atom  Part 2: Environment  5. Pollution  6. Conservation/Environmental Protection  7. Renewables  8. Conclusion

Biography

Thomas C. Hoerber is Associate Professor at the Centre for European Integration at the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales (ESSCA), LUNAL University in Angers, France.