This book analyzes how the European environmental movement has influenced the problem definitions and solution strategies of European policy issues, examining biodiversity, GMOs, Trans-European Transport Networks, and climate change.
HEIN-ANTON VAN DER HEIJDEN is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has widely published on topics like environmental movements and political opportunity structures, European and global environmental politics, political discourse analysis, and on the interplay between social science and politics.
Introduction Social Movements, Civil Society and Public Spheres European Environmental Politics Environmental Groups in Brussels In Search of a Green 'Good Society' The Natura 2000 Discourse Framing Genetically Modified Organisms Ecological Modernization and the Trans-European Transport Network The European Politics of Climate Change Conclusion Bibliography
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