European Union and Environmental Governance by Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer
Henrik Selin, Associate Professor of International Relations at Boston University and an expert on environmental policy and sustainable development, has a new book in Routledge’s “Global Institutions” series entitled European Union and Environmental Governance. Co-authored with Stacy D. VanDeveer, Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire, the book continues his earlier work on EU chemicals and waste policies, looking at environmental management and sustainable development more broadly within the EU.
Over the past five decades, the European Union (EU) has developed into the most legally and politically authoritative regional organization in the world, wielding significant influence across a wide range of issue areas. European Union and Environmental Governance focuses on the growing global role of EU environmental and sustainable development policies.
The book introduces and examines the major European and global environmental issues, debates, and policies and provides a critical, evidence-based evaluation of the achievements and shortcomings to date in EU environmental and sustainability governance. Providing both an historical overview and a discussion of the major future legal, political and economic challenges to the realization of EU goals related to better environmental governance, the book will be useful reading for students of global environmental politics, comparative environmental politics and policy, international organizations, European politics, and environmental studies.