Europe and Global Climate Change: Politics, Foreign Policy and Regional CooperationThis book is likely to become the definitive study on European global climate change politics. Its focus on the formulation, ratification, and implementation of the Kyoto Protocol within Europe make it essential reading for all who wish to understand how |
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Contents
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domestic sources of environmental foreign policy | 41 |
the United Kingdom in European climate policy | 63 |
foreign policy of the Netherlands | 87 |
5 Climatic issues in Polish foreign policy | 113 |
6 Sweden climate change and the EU context | 139 |
accommodating environmental foreign policy in a federal state | 161 |
Norwegian NGOs in the climate change negotiations | 185 |
land use domestic stakeholders and EU foreign policy | 233 |
international regimes and policy diffusion | 255 |
EU influence on Norway and Germany | 279 |
13 Climate change policy and the enlargement of the EU | 305 |
German European and international politics | 323 |
international equity and justice in European policy | 349 |
power interests and ideas in domestic and international politics | 393 |
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