EU Environmental Governance Current and Future Challenges

This book presents an overview of the field of environmental law and policies within the European Union and externally, from theoretical foundations to major issues and applied governance solutions.

Drawing on expertise from renowned academics and practitioners from different disciplines, EU Environmental Governance: Current and Future Challenges helps readers to understand the main legal, political and economic issues of environmental protection since the adoption of the Paris Agreement by the European Union in 2015. This new edition presents both current insights and future challenges as they seem to be emerging in the new geopolitical era in the EU after major events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion in Ukraine. The authors examine a broad range of sensitive and topical environmental challenges including climate change, air and environmental pollution, waste management, biodiversity protection, environmental and human health, marine biodiversity, renewable energy, nuclear energy and sustainable Arctic governance. Overall, this volume exposes the reader to a vast array of empirical case studies, which will bolster their training and help tackle the environmental challenges faced by Europe today.

This book is a valuable resource for students, researchers and policymakers across a broad range of fields, including environmental law and policies, environmental economics, climate science and environmental sociology.

Introduction

EU environmental governance revisited: an introduction : The European Union, still a leader and laboratory for environmental politics? – Amandine Orsini and Eleni Kavvatha

Part 1: Air Quality and EU Climate Policy     

1. The Environment as a Human Right. New Challenges, in Europe - Delphine Misonne and Camille Bertaux
2. EU Climate Policy - Tom Delreux and Christofer Crelin

Part 2: Energy policy

1. Safety, Sustainability, and Synchronization: The Gap in EU Policies on Nuclear Waste Management - Janani Mohan
2. The transposition of Renewable Energy Community provisions in Central and Eastern Europe: an evidence of varied polycentric governance systems - Loic Cobut, Daniel Petrovics and Thomas Bauwens

Part 3: Agriculture and biodiversity

1. Agriculture and Biodiversity in Europe: The faded Green Deal – reversing the biodiversity collapse in the European farming sector - Ariel Brunner and Marilda Dhaskali
2. The European Union’s International Ocean Governance framework, a path towards a turquoise diplomacy - Tiago Pires da Cruz

Part 4: Waste and Health

1. The Sustainable Batteries Regulation - Candido Garcia Molyneux- 
2. Towards an integrated policy framework for environmental governance? Genealogies, discourses and practices of “One Health” - François Thoreau and David Seke

Part 5: Reconciling environmental concerns with market imperatives

1. EU Trade and Environmental Policies: Between Contradiction and Complementarity - Marcus Gustafsson, Elise Kneller and Victor Crochet
2. Cleaning Up the Mess: Latest Developments in the EU – an Answer to Environmental Conflicts - Angele Minguet & Fabienne Haubold

Part 6: Upcoming challenges for the European Union

1. Arctic Governance – an updated field of EU Action - Eleni Kavvatha
2. Youth and EU Environmental Policy - Amandine Orsini

Conclusion

EU Environmental Governance revisited – Amandine Orsini and Eleni Kavvatha