Format:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 472 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen, 1 Karte
ISBN:
9783110669213
,
9783110665789
Series Statement:
Contemporary European history volume 1
Content:
Today, the European environmental regime seems omnipresent. A rare beetle can stop a building project, the local water authorities have to make sure that the European Eel can reach his home waters after having travelled the Atlantic, European standards for air quality cause trouble for the German diesel-driven car industry, and lighting products are subject to EU energy labelling and eco-design requirements. Implementing laws and sticking to environmental norms and standards has become an integral part of the European integration process. To the EU this is self-evident: "We share resources like water, air, natural habitats and the species they support, and we also share environmental standards to protect them." The idea of any such 'shared environment', however, has come a long way and is still being contested. Thinking and writing about the history of "protecting the environment" requires us to study the long 20th century. In order to understand the peculiar rise of Europe environmental regimes and green values we have to consider the modern concept of Europe as a shared geographical space, linked by habitats, migrating species, rivers, pollutants, climate and risks. Moreover, we have to analyse the 'invention' of conservation as a moral enterprise. That is why environmental history needs a long durée's perspective to understand the evolution of the European Common
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110609653
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Greening Europe Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022 ISBN 9783110609653
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110609657
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
General works
Keywords:
Europa
;
Umweltschutz
;
Umweltpolitik
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9783110669213
Author information:
Kupper, Patrick 1970-
Author information:
Wöbse, Anna-Katharina
