Climate Change Policy in the European Union: Confronting the Dilemmas of Mitigation and Adaptation?

By Muriel Saville-Troike

Book Overview

The European Union (EU) has emerged as a leading governing body in the international struggle to govern climate change. The transformation that has occurred in its policies and institutions has profoundly affected climate change politics at the international level and within its 27 Member States. But how has this been achieved when the EU comprises so many levels of governance, when political leadership in Europe is so dispersed and the policy choices are especially difficult? Drawing on a variety of detailed case studies spanning the interlinked challenges of mitigation and adaptation, this volume offers an unrivalled account of how different actors wrestled with the complex governance dilemmas associated with climate policy making. Opening up the EU's inner workings to non-specialists, it provides a perspective on the way that the EU governs, as well as exploring its ability to maintain a leading position in international climate change politics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521196124
• ISBN13: 9780521196123
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Pretty good as an overview

Read this book for a psycholinguistics class. It was good as an overview of the three fields from which SLA can be approached. As a psychology student, I was especially interested in the chapter focused on that area and found it to be decent. As the title makes clear, this is an introductory book that is necessarily limited in content. It's easy to read and provides many references for the interested reader to peruse and gain more knowledge about a given subject matter. Overall, it's a good starting point to understanding the important concepts in this field.

Lucid.

Lucid summaries/overviews of the major linguistic, social, and psychological theories behind SLA. Each chapter starts with a concise preview of what's to come, and ends with a useful self-test.