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 • Patrick Kupper and Anna-Katharina Wöbse I Conserving Nature 2 Counting Birds: Protecting European Avifauna and Habitats • Anna-Katharina Wöbse 3 Europe and its Environmental Other(s): Imagining Natures for “Global” Conservation • Raf de Bont 4 Restoring, Reintroducing, Rewilding: Creating European Wilderness • Anna-Katharina Wöbse and Hans-Peter Ziemek 5 Protecting Eurofisch: An Environmental History of the European Eeland its Europeanness • Peter A. Coates 6 Transcending the Cold War: Borders, Nature, and the European Green Belt Conservation Project along the Former Iron Curtain • Astrid M. Eckert and Pavla Šimková II Preserving Livelihoods 7 Transforming Woodlands: European Forest Protection in a Global Context • Richard Hölzl and K. Jan Oosthoek 8 Travelling (Western) Europe: Tourism, Regional Development, and Nature Protection • Ute Hasenöhrl and Robert Groß 9 Moving Mountains: The Protection of the Alps • Romed Aschwanden, Maria Buck, Patrick Kupper, and Kira J. Schmidt 10 Negotiating the Maritime Commons: Protecting the Baltic Sea in a European Context • Simo Laakkonen and Tuomas Räsänen 11 Recycling Europe’s Domestic Wastes: The Hope of “Greening” Mass Consumption through Recycling • Heike Weber III Sustaining Environments 12 Visualizing the Invisible: Communicating Europe’s Environment • Silke Vetter-Schultheiß 13 Revealing Risks: European Moments in Nuclear Politics and the Anti-Nuclear Movement • Astrid Mignon Kirchhof and Jan-Henrik Meyer 14 Combatting “Acid Rain”: Protecting the Common European Sky • Arne Kaijser 15 Developing Europe: The Formation of Sustainability Concepts and Activities • Elke Seefried 16 Europeanizing Biodiversity: International Organizations as Environmental Actors • Liesbeth van de Grift and Wim van Meurs 17 Epilogue: The Nature of Europe • Anna-Katharina Wöbse and Patrick Kupper List of Contributors Index