Greening Europe

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

Greening Europe

Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century – A Handbook

Edited by: Anna-Katharina Wöbse and Patrick Kupper

Volume 1 in the series Contemporary European History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110669213

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About this book

Today, the environment seems omnipresent in European policy within and beyond the European Union. The idea of a shared European environment, however, has come a long way and is still being contested.

Greening Europe focuses on the many ways people have interacted with nature and made it an issue of European concern. The authors ask how notions of Europe mattered in these activities and they expose the many entanglements of activists across the subcontinent who set out to connect and network, and to exchange knowledge, worldviews, and strategies that exceeded their national horizons. Moving beyond human agency, the handbook also highlights the eminent role nature played in both "greening" Europe and making Europe a shared environment.

Author information

Anna-Katharina Wöbse, University of Gießen, Germany; Patrick Kupper, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
On the “Contemporary European History” Handbook Series Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
1 Introduction: Writing a European History of Environmental Protection Patrick Kupper and Anna-Katharina Wöbse Publicly Available Download PDF	1
I Conserving Nature
2 Counting Birds: Protecting European Avifauna and Habitats Anna-Katharina Wöbse Publicly Available Download PDF	17
3 Europe and its Environmental Other(s): Imagining Natures for “Global” Conservation Raf de Bont Publicly Available Download PDF	47
4 Restoring, Reintroducing, Rewilding: Creating European Wilderness Anna-Katharina Wöbse and Hans-Peter Ziemek Publicly Available Download PDF	73
5 Protecting Eurofisch: An Environmental History of the European Eel and its Europeanness Peter A. Coates Publicly Available Download PDF	101
6 Transcending the Cold War: Borders, Nature, and the European Green Belt Conservation Project along the Former Iron Curtain Astrid M. Eckert and Pavla Š Šimková Publicly Available Download PDF	129
II Preserving Livelihoods
7 Transforming Woodlands: European Forest Protection in a Global Context Richard Hölzl and K. Jan Oosthoek Publicly Available Download PDF	157
8 Travelling (Western) Europe: Tourism, Regional Development, and Nature Protection Ute Hasenöhrl and Robert Groß Publicly Available Download PDF	185
9 Moving Mountains: The Protection of the Alps Romed Aschwanden, Maria Buck, Patrick Kupper and Kira J. Schmidt Publicly Available Download PDF	217
10 Negotiating the Maritime Commons: Protecting the Baltic Sea in a European Context Simo Laakkonen and Tuomas Räsänen Publicly Available Download PDF	243
11 Recycling Europe’s Domestic Wastes: The Hope of “Greening” Mass Consumption through Recycling Heike Weber Publicly Available Download PDF	269
III Sustaining Environments
12 Visualizing the Invisible: Communicating Europe’s Environment Silke Vetter-Schultheiß Publicly Available Download PDF	305
13 Revealing Risks: European Moments in Nuclear Politics and the Anti-Nuclear Movement Astrid Mignon Kirchhof and Jan-Henrik Meyer Publicly Available Download PDF	331
14 Combatting “Acid Rain”: Protecting the Common European Sky Arne Kaijser Publicly Available Download PDF	363
15 Developing Europe: The Formation of Sustainability Concepts and Activities Elke Seefried Publicly Available Download PDF	389
16 Europeanizing Biodiversity: International Organizations as Environmental Actors Liesbeth van de Grift and Wim van Meurs Publicly Available Download PDF	419
17 Epilogue: The Nature of Europe Anna-Katharina Wöbse and Patrick Kupper Publicly Available Download PDF	447
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	451
Index Publicly Available Download PDF	455

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 472
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
- Coloured Illustrations: 31
Keywords: European Union; Environment; Environmental policy; Economy

eBook

Published: December 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110669213

Hardcover

Published: December 31, 2021
ISBN: 9783110609653