Environmental and energy policies have become increasingly significant in European and North American politics. This fascinating 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. "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.
Stacy D. VanDeveer is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire and a 2011-12 Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy, at the German Marshall Fund of the US in Washington, DC. His interests include international environmental policymaking and its domestic impacts, the connections between environmental and security issues, global resource consumption and the roles of ideas and experts in policy making. He has received fellowships from the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He has received research funding from the US National Science Foundation, the European Union, and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA), among others. In addition to authoring and co-authoring over fifty articles, book chapters, working papers and reports, he has co-edited several books and he is currently working on books on the global consumption of resources and the role of the European Union in global environmental and sustainability politics.
