A Guide to EU Environmental Policy: Actors, Institutions and Processes

The European Union has come to dominate the way environmental policy is thought about, developed and implemented throughout Europe. It is also a benchmark and guide for policy elsewhere in the world. This text brings together work on the full range of EU environmental policy. Incorporating a range of case studies, it draws out the links between levels of governance and the role of the environment in other policy areas such as agriculture, trade and transport. The editor’s introduction explores the important theoretical and empirical questions raised by the development of EU policy and the challenges of the new sustainability agenda. The book emphasizes how policy is a dynamic process and examines the roles of the main actors and institutions.