Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy
EU Environmental Governance: Current and Future Challenges
2nd Edition
Edited
By Amandine Orsini, Eleni Kavvatha
September 05, 2025
This book presents an overview of the field of environmental law and policies within the European Union (EU) and externally, from theoretical foundations to major issues and applied governance solutions. Drawing on expertise from renowned academics and practitioners from different disciplines, EU ...
Deploying the European Green Deal: Protecting the Environment Beyond the EU Borders
1st Edition
Edited
By Mar Campins Eritja, Xavier Fernández-Pons
July 31, 2025
Drawing on a range of expert contributions, this book explores how the European Green Deal is being deployed in practice and observes how the EU tries to promote the protection of the environment in third countries. This book begins by assessing the state of the art in terms of the key conceptual ...
The European Green Deal in Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Anne McDonagh, Alessandro Caforio, Alessandro Pollini
November 28, 2024
This book shares real-life case studies taken from GreenSCENT, a three-year EU-funded project that promotes sustainability through the development of digital platforms and tools, green education programme, and climate and environmental literacy certification. To date there has been little work ...
Deliberative Governance for Sustainable Development: An Innovative Solution for Environment, Economy and Society
1st Edition
By Franz Lehner
October 08, 2024
Deliberative Governance for Sustainable Development argues that governance has become the core problem of sustainable development and identifies deliberative democracy and governance as a path forward for Western societies. In this book the author puts forward three messages. Firstly, while ...
Stopping Climate Change: Policies for Real Zero
1st Edition
By Paul Ekins
November 30, 2023
Written by one of the leading experts in the field, Paul Ekins, Stopping Climate Change provides a comprehensive overview of what is required to achieve ‘real zero’ carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, and negative emissions thereafter, which is the only way to stop human- induced climate change. This...
European Foreign Policy in a Decarbonising World: Challenges and Opportunities
1st Edition
By Sebastian Oberthür, Dennis Tänzler, Emily Wright, Gauri Khandekar
September 25, 2023
Contributing to the emerging literature on the geopolitical and foreign policy implications of decarbonisation and energy transition processes, this book sheds light on the future of the European Union’s (EU) external relations under decarbonisation. Under the Paris Agreement on climate change, ...
Climate Change Law and Policy in the Middle East and North Africa Region
1st Edition
Edited
By Damilola S. Olawuyi
January 09, 2023
Climate Change Law and Policy in the Middle East and North Africa Region provides an in-depth and authoritative examination of the guiding principles of climate change law and policy in the MENA region. This volume introduces readers to the latest developments in the regulation of climate change ...
Environmental Policy and Air Pollution in China: Governance and Strategy
1st Edition
By Yuan Xu
May 30, 2022
This book systematically analyzes how and why China has expectedly lost and then surprisingly gained ground in the quest to solve the complicated environmental problem of air pollution over the past two decades. Yuan Xu shines a light on how China’s sulfur dioxide emissions rose quickly in tandem ...
The European Union and Global Environmental Protection: Transforming Influence into Action
1st Edition
Edited
By Mar Campins Eritja
May 30, 2022
This book examines how the EU can be a more proactive actor in the promotion of the principles of sustainability and fairness from a legal environmental perspective. The book is one of the results of the research activity of the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Environmental Law (2017-2020) funded by the ...
How to Successfully Encourage Sustainable Development Policy: Lessons from Germany
1st Edition
By Günther Bachmann
May 12, 2022
This book builds on the insights of Günther Bachmann, former Secretary General for the German Sustainability Council, who spent almost 20 years advising the German government on sustainability policy. The book discusses his experiences in negotiating stakeholder statements at the highest national ...
Environmental Policy in India
1st Edition
Edited
By Natalia Ciecierska-Holmes, Kirsten Jörgensen, Lana Laura Ollier, D. Raghunandan
June 30, 2021
This book systematically introduces historical trajectories and dynamics of environmental policy and governance in India.Following the features of environmental policy in India as outlined in Chapter 1, subsequent chapters explore domestic and international factors that shape environmental policy ...
Guanxi and Local Green Development in China: The Role of Entrepreneurs and Local Leaders
1st Edition
By Chunhong Sheng
March 31, 2021
This book examines the factors which contribute to local green development in China and employs political ecology to analyze the relationship between power and the environment. Specifically, it looks at which actors control access to resources and are therefore able to promote environmental ...