Bücher der Reihe Global Environmental Governance

This study explores how the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) actually works on the ground affecting corporate climate strategies. It covers general sector responses as well as systematic comparative studies of companies across the sectors.

Global environmental politics has been determined by a strong increase of global governance systems in the past few decades. This study draws a causal connection between the activities of non-state actors and legitimacy. It also includes chapters that explore whether the prime hypothesis can be verified.

Environmental and energy policies have become significant in European and North American politics. This book uses 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 transatlantic relationship.

Examines how the EU functions when it participates in international environmental negotiations. In particular, this book looks at the internal EU decision-making process with regard to international negotiations that lead to multilateral environmental agreements. It is aimed at a readership interested in EU politics and decision-making.

Examines the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) signed in 1994. This work studies the linkages between land degradation and poverty, the role of civil society and good governance in implementing the UNCCD and the various approaches to fighting desertification. It synthesises the main strengths and weaknesses of the UNCCD.

Examines the coordination of renewable energy policies in the European Union using a theoretical approach to explain national policy making. The author asks, why are national support instruments for electricity from renewable energy sources converging, even though the harmonisation of these frameworks at the European level has failed?