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In this volume an international cast of contributors analyze and
discuss the role of societal actors in European integration from
the creation of the present-day European Union in 1958 to the
Maastricht Treaty in 1992. Based throughout on newly accessible
sources the authors discuss a variety of societal actors from
political parties to business groups and civil society
organizations demonstrating the scope and limits of their role in
European polity-building and policy-making before the Maastricht
Treaty, with an outlook on the period since then. This is an
important text for students and Scholars of European Studies,
European Union Politics and contemporary History.
Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate
change are all issues that necessarily transcend national
boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have
been a particular focus for international organizations from before
the First World War to the present day. This volume is the first to
comprehensively explore the environmental activities of
professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United
Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth
century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about
environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental
commitments, and-following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human
Environment-implement and enforce actual international policies.
Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate
change are all issues that necessarily transcend national
boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have
been a particular focus for international organizations from before
the First World War to the present day. This volume is the first to
comprehensively explore the environmental activities of
professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United
Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth
century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about
environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental
commitments, and-following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human
Environment-implement and enforce actual international policies.
Contributors to this volume outline how societal actors have been
closely involved in European integration from the founding of the
EU to the Maastricht Treaty. Based on newly accessible sources, the
authors discuss the participation of political parties, business
groups and civil society organizations in European polity-building
and policy-making.
Transnational perspectives on the relationship between nuclear
energy and society. With the aim of overcoming the disciplinary and
national fragmentation that characterizes much research on nuclear
energy, Engaging the Atom brings together specialists from a
variety of fields to analyze comparative case studies across Europe
and the United States. It explores evolving relationships between
society and the nuclear sector from the origins of civilian nuclear
power until the present, asking why nuclear energy has been more
contentious in some countries than in others and why some countries
have never gone nuclear, or have decided to phase out nuclear,
while their neighbors have committed to the so-called nuclear
renaissance. Contributors examine the challenges facing the nuclear
sector in the context of aging reactor fleets, pressing climate
urgency, and increasing competition from renewable energy sources.
Written by leading academics in their respective disciplines, the
nine chapters of Engaging the Atom place the evolution of nuclear
energy within a broader set of national and international
configurations, including its role within policies and markets.
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