Greening Europe: Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century – A Handbook

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Today, the environment seems omnipresent in European policy within and beyond the European Union. The idea of a shared European environment, however, has come a long way and is still being contested. Greening Europe focuses on the many ways people have interacted with nature and made it an issue of European concern. The authors ask how notions of Europe mattered in these activities and they expose the many entanglements of activists across the subcontinent who set out to connect and network, and to exchange knowledge, worldviews, and strategies that exceeded their national horizons. Moving beyond human agency, the handbook also highlights the eminent role nature played in both "greening" Europe and making Europe a shared environment. Table of Contents On the “Contemporary European History” Handbook Series 1 Introduction: Writing a European History of Environmental Protection I Conserving Nature 2 Counting Birds: Protecting European Avifauna and Habitats 3 Europe and its Environmental Other(s): Imagining Natures for “Global” Conservation 4 Restoring, Reintroducing, Rewilding: Creating European Wilderness 5 Protecting Eurofisch: An Environmental History of the European Eel and its Europeanness 6 Transcending the Cold War: Borders, Nature, and the European Green Belt Conservation Project along the Former Iron Curtain II Preserving Livelihoods 7 Transforming Woodlands: European Forest Protection in a Global Context 8 Travelling (Western) Europe: Tourism, Regional Development, and Nature Protection 9 Moving Mountains: The Protection of the Alps 10 Negotiating the Maritime Commons: Protecting the Baltic Sea in a European Context 11 Recycling Europe’s Domestic Wastes: The Hope of “Greening” Mass Consumption through Recycling III Sustaining Environments 12 Visualizing the Invisible: Communicating Europe’s Environment 13 Revealing Risks: European Moments in Nuclear Politics and the Anti-Nuclear Movement 14 Combatting “Acid Rain”: Protecting the Common European Sky 15 Developing Europe: The Formation of Sustainability Concepts and Activities 16 Europeanizing Biodiversity: International Organizations as Environmental Actors 17 Epilogue: The Nature of Europe List of Contributors Index