The European Union (EU) has sought to establish itself as a global environmental leader but was hit by the combined effects of the economic and financial crisis from 2007-8 leading some to question whether the EU could continue to adopt ambitious environmental policy. This volume brings together leading environmental policy scholars to analyse the impacts of the crisis upon environmental policy in the EU and its member states. Authors analyse whether environmental
policy has been dismantled, expanded or stayed the same. If policy has been dismantled, the kind of strategy adopted is analysed (active, symbolic, arena-shifting, or dismantling by default), and at
what levels change has occurred. The Index of Policy Activity (IPA) is applied systematically across the cases, which combine quantitative with qualitative analysis. Non-European cases are also included to provide a counterpoint for comparison. The book finds that whilst the EU has not actively dismantled environmental policy, its economic policies have had negative effects upon some Member States, prompting policy dismantling. Climate and energy policies have seen
some policy expansion but there are examples, most notably the UK, where there has also been active policy dismantling. The main trend is one of stasis - environmental policy in Europe is judged to have
plateaued calling into question Europe's much-vaunted environmental leadership. The book contributes to scholarship on environmental policy and public administration, combining empirical and methodological insights to give an up to date perspective on the impact of crisis upon European environmental policy.
The European Union (EU) has sought to establish itself as a global environmental leader but was hit by the combined effects of the economic and financial crisis from 2007-8 leading some to question whether the EU could continue to adopt ambitious environmental policy. This volume brings together leading environmental policy scholars to analyse the impacts of the crisis upon environmental policy in the EU and its member states. Authors analyse whether environmental
policy has been dismantled, expanded or stayed the same. If policy has been dismantled, the kind of strategy adopted is analysed (active, symbolic, arena-shifting, or dismantling by default), and at
what levels change has occurred. The Index of Policy Activity (IPA) is applied systematically across the cases, which combine quantitative with qualitative analysis. Non-European cases are also included to provide a counterpoint for comparison. The book finds that whilst the EU has not actively dismantled environmental policy, its economic policies have had negative effects upon some Member States, prompting policy dismantling. Climate and energy policies have seen
some policy expansion but there are examples, most notably the UK, where there has also been active policy dismantling. The main trend is one of stasis - environmental policy in Europe is judged to have
plateaued calling into question Europe's much-vaunted environmental leadership. The book contributes to scholarship on environmental policy and public administration, combining empirical and methodological insights to give an up to date perspective on the impact of crisis upon European environmental policy.
1: Charlotte Burns, Paul Tobin, and Sebastian Sewerin: Measuring
the Impact of the Crisis on European Environmental Policy
2: Viviane Gravey and Brendan Moore: Full Steam Ahead or Dead in
the Water? European Union Environmental Policy After the Economic
Crisis
3: Sebastian Sewerin and Tobias S. Schmidt: The Impact of the
Economic Crisis on Renewable Energy Policy Mixes: A Comparative
Analysis of Macro-, Meso- and Micro- Policy Dynamics
4: Jan-Justus Andreas: Turning Cuts into Growth: German and British
Renewable Energy and Climate Policy During the Economic Crisis
5: Brendan Flynn: Irish Environmental Policy After the Economic
Crisis: More of the Same but with Less?
6: Jakob Skovgaard, Roger Hildingsson, and Bengt Johansson:
Environmental Policy and the Economic Crisis: The Swedish and
Danish Cases
7: Simona Davidescu: Environmental Policy in Times of Crisis:
Romania's Troubled Transition
8: Rosa Fernandez: The Effects of the International Economic Crisis
on Spain's Environmental Policy
9: Nathalie Berny: The Restoration of Biodiversity in France: From
Words to Deeds
10: Charlotte Burns, Paul Tobin, and Sebastian Sewerin: European
Environmental Policy at a Time of Crisis: Benign Neglect, or a
Leader Losing Pace?
Charlotte Burns is Professorial Fellow in Sustainable Growth in the
Politics Department at the University of Sheffield. She is an
expert in EU environmental policy and EU policy-making processes.
Charlotte is the Principal Investigator on a three-year project
examining the impact of the financial crisis upon European Union
environmental policy, which has been funded by the Leverhulme
Trust. She has published widely in journals within the field,
including in
Environmental Politics, the Journal of European Public Policy,
Journal of Common Market Studies, and Political Studies.
Paul Tobin is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of
Manchester. His article on 'Leaders and Laggards' in Climate
Policy, published in Global Environmental Politics, won the INOGOV
Best Paper Prize, and his Ph.D. was awarded the UACES Best PhD
Thesis Prize. His work has also appeared in journals such as Global
Environmental Change and the Journal of Common Market Studies.
Sebastian Sewerin is a Senior Researcher in the Energy Politics
Group at the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. In his research, which is
published in Nature Energy, Research Policy, Policy Studies, and
Environmental Politics, he analyses long-term changes in energy
policy mixes.
the book is of interest to anyone wanting to understand the role of
austerity measures for policies in general, and environmental
policies in particular....The theoretical framework is one of the
strengths of the book because the empirical chapters show the
methodical plurality of the theory...Burns, Tobin, and Sewerin
(2019) develop the Index of Policy Activity theoretical and
methodology, which is applicable to other policy areas. Thus, the
book is also of interest to scholars outside the field of
environmental policy.
*Helene, Journal of European Integration*
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