The European Union and Sustainable Development: Internal and External DimensionsSince the Treaty of Amsterdam, sustainable development is legally enshrined among the fundamental objectives of European integration, and the contributors to this volume bring a diversity of perspectives to bear on both the internal and external dimensions of the EU’s relationship with sustainable development. The diversity of views reflected in this book testifies to the politically sensitive, essentially contested nature of the concept. But it cannot be denied that sustainable development policies have become institutionalized in the EU and its Member States and, as such, constitute an important new subject of inquiry and debate for all those interested in the fate of the European project. |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
An Ambiguous Relationship | 19 |
The Political Process Leading to the Development of the EU Sustainable | 53 |
Its Implementation | 79 |
Thomas Bernheim | 93 |
Missing the Point? The EUs Institutional and Procedural Approach | 105 |
Achievements and Challenges for National Sustainable Development | 129 |
Ingeborg Niestroy | 157 |
Greening | 217 |
Amelia Hadfield | 237 |
Part 3 | 269 |
Handling the External | 277 |
Adapting Development Policy Design to the 21st | 291 |
Towards | 301 |
The Legal and Economic Imperatives of Sustainable Development | 313 |
List of Contributors | 337 |
Common terms and phrases
achieve Action Programme activities adopted agenda approach Article biodiversity Brussels Cardiff process civil society climate change coherence Commission’s commitment Common Fisheries Policy companies concept concerns conservation consultation paper contribute democracy developing countries EC Treaty ecological economic and social ecosystem energy ensure environment environmental issues environmental policy environmental protection EU’s European Commission European Council European Parliament European Union evaluation external dimensions fishing framework global Göteborg Göteborg European Council governance habitats Ibid Impact Assessment implementation improve industry initiatives institutions instruments integration Johannesburg Summit June Kyoto Protocol Lisbon Strategy marine measures Member national SD objectives organisations pharmaceutical political pollution precautionary principle Presidency Conclusions priority promote reform regional Regulation role SD strategies sector social and environmental social sustainability specific stakeholders Strategy for Sustainable Summit supra note Sustainable Development Strategy targets Treaty of Amsterdam TRIPS Agreement Umicore
References to this book
The Principle of Sustainability: Transforming Law and Governance Professor Klaus Bosselmann No preview available - 2013 |