Routledge Studies on the Governance of Sustainability in Europe
About the Book Series
At the beginning of the twenty-first century the EU is faced with major economic, environmental and societal challenges. Climate change is at the forefront of these challenges having a wide-ranging impact on the economy and society.
The timeliness of the discussion of sustainability is therefore being confirmed almost daily. This is especially true within the policy making circles of the EU with high level discussions on a variety of issues from energy security to climate change, fisheries to the Lisbon Strategy all referring to sustainable development. Yet although sustainable development is a fundamental objective of the Union, research shows the EU has often struggled to engage with all aspects of the concept. It allows a wide range of actors to subscribe to the policy, but also leads to numerous interpretations, which in turn – along with a lack of recognition of the interdependency of energy and environmental policies - makes it difficult for a coherent and comprehensive set of policies to emerge. Finally, the cross-cutting multi-disciplinary nature of the concept also only feeds further ambiguity about the relationship between the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability.
This book series on European sustainable development will examine these tensions and ambiguities from an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary background. It will accept proposals from practitioners and academics from a range of disciplines including history, politics, management and environmental and energy studies for books that feature aspects of sustainable development as their key topic in name or spirit. Of particular interest will be:
- the impact of sustainable development policies on European integration
- books where issues of sustainability are analysed in energy, environmental, transport, development and agricultural policies
- books that utilise an interdisciplinary approach.
The book series will highlight the vital links needed between academic disciplines and policy fields, which in the end are essential for making any single one of them useful and viable.
Series editors:
Thomas Hoerber, ESSCA School of Management, Angers, France
Jenny Fairbrass, Non-affiliated; formerly Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, UK
Kristina Kurze, University of Göttingen, Germany
Helene Dyrhauge, Roskilde University, Denmark
The European Environmental Conscience in the EU: Finance, Innovation, and External Relations of the EU
1st Edition
Edited
By Marjorie Tendero, Christoph Weber
February 17, 2025
This book analyses how sustainability affects internal decision-making within the European Union and its external relations in working towards achieving its long-term goal of a climate-neutral Europe by 2050. Applying the term "European environmental conscience" as the perception of environmental ...
Economic Aspects of the Sustainability Transition in Europe
1st Edition
By Rosa Maria Fernandez Martin
December 31, 2024
This book comprehensively examines the financial and economic aspects of the ‘sustainability transitions’ demanded by the primary components of the European Green Deal. It asks how the EU has been dealing with the allocation of resources to foster the sustainability transition, how the additional ...
Making the European Green Deal Work: EU Sustainability Policies at Home and Abroad
1st Edition
Edited
By Helene Dyrhauge, Kristina Kurze
December 18, 2024
This book critically analyses different dimensions in the sustainable transitions outlined by the European Green Deal, focusing on both internal actions and external relations and highlighting the EU’s diverging powers and capabilities in achieving the core objectives. As with the Green Deal itself...
EU Energy and Climate Policy after COVID-19 and the Invasion of Ukraine: Decarbonisation and Security in Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Matúš Mišík, Andrea Figulová
October 14, 2024
This book discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the European Union’s climate and energy policy. By examining the positions of the various actors involved, the book analyses whether the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine has ...
The European Environmental Conscience in EU Politics: A Developing Ideology
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Hoerber, Gabriel Weber
January 29, 2024
Based on empirical studies of European energy and environmental policies, this book suggests that, in combination, these two policy fields form a consensus in the EU which might also become the basis for a new European ideology, namely European ‘sustainabilism’. It asks why an environmental ...
Comparative Renewables Policy: Political, Organizational and European Fields
1st Edition
Edited
By Elin Lerum Boasson, Merethe Dotterud Leiren, Jørgen Wettestad
December 19, 2022
Challenging one-eyed technology-focused accounts of renewables policy, this book provides a ground-breaking, deep-diving and genre-crossing longitudinal study of policy development. The book develops a multi-field explanatory approach, capturing inter-relationships between actors often analyzed in...