"Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics" by Miranda A. Schreurs, Henrik Selin, Stacy D. VanDeveer

This book uses a wide range of case studies that embrace climate change, product standards, chemical regulations, renewable energy policies, food safety and genetically-modified organisms to examine areas of conflict and cooperation in the transatlantic relationship. While there are many areas where the European Union and the United States are following divergent policy paths, there are also many signs that a more cooperative transatlantic relationship could emerge in the future.




Environmental and energy policies have become increasingly significant in European and North American politics.
"Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics" is highly relevant to understanding how the European Union and North America can cooperate more effectively in meeting today's many global environmental and energy policy challenges. It is essential reading for all advanced students and scholars.

Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1 Expanding Transatlantic Relations: Implications for Environment and Energy Politics - Miranda A. Schreurs, Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer
Part I: Governing Within and Beyond the State : Comparati ve Environmental Governance and its Implicati ons for Policy Development
2 Governance for Sustainable Development: The United States and the European Union Compared - Elizabeth Bomberg
3 Intergovernmental Management of Environmental Policy in the United States and the EU - Sonja Wälti
Part II: Governing Risk: Chemical Regulati ons, Asbestos Bans, Product Standards, and Geneticaly Modified Organisms
4 Transatlantic Politics of Chemicals Management - Henrik Selin
5 Oceans Apart? Policy Reversals, Transatlantic Politics, and the EU Asbestos Ban - Marcus Carson
6 Targeting Consumer Product Environmental Impacts across the Atlantic - Alastair Iles
7 Transatlantic Food Fights in an Era of Globalization: When Menus, Rules and Choices Collide - atricia M. Keilbach
8 Implications of the Transatlantic Biotech Dispute for Developing Countries - Thomas Bernauer and Philipp Aerni
Part III: Governing Carbon: Renewable Energy and Climate Change
9 Promotion of Renewable Electricity in the United States and the European Union: Policy Progress and Prospects - Ian H. Rowlands
10 Conflict and Cooperation in Transatlantic Climate Politics: Different Stories at Different Levels - Miranda A. Schreurs, Henrik Selin, and Stacy D. VanDeveer
Part IV: Governing Global Markets: Environmental Standards and Certi ficati on Approaches
11 Export Promotion, Trade, and the Environment: Negotiating Environmental Standards for Export Credit Agencies across the Atlantic - Marcus Schaper
12 The Emergence of Non-State Environmental Governance in European and North American Forest Sectors - Benjamin Cashore, Graeme Auld, Deanna Newsom, and Elizabeth Egan
13 Mad Cows and Ailing Hens: The Transatlantic Relationship and Livestock Diseases - Kate O’Neill
14 Transatlantic Environmental Relations: Implications for the Global Community - Miranda A. Schreurs, Henrik Selin, and Stacy D. VanDeveer
References
Index