The Impact of the Economic Crisis on European Environmental Policy

by Burns, Charlotte; Tobin, Paul; Sewerin, Sebastian

• ISBN13: 9780198826958
• ISBN10: 0198826958
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-02-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Charlotte Burns, Professorial Fellow in Sustainable Growth, University of Sheffield,Paul Tobin, Lecturer in Politics, University of Manchester,Sebastian Sewerin, Senior Researcher, Energy Politics Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)

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.

Table of Contents

1. Measuring the Impact of the Crisis on European Environmental Policy, Charlotte Burns, Paul Tobin, and Sebastian Sewerin
2. Full Steam Ahead or Dead in the Water? European Union Environmental Policy After the Economic Crisis, Viviane Gravey and Brendan Moore
3. The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Renewable Energy Policy Mixes: A Comparative Analysis of Macro-, Meso- and Micro- Policy Dynamics, Sebastian Sewerin and Tobias S. Schmidt
4. Turning Cuts into Growth: German and British Renewable Energy and Climate Policy During the Economic Crisis, Jan-Justus Andreas
5. Irish Environmental Policy After the Economic Crisis: More of the Same but with Less?, Brendan Flynn
6. Environmental Policy and the Economic Crisis: The Swedish and Danish Cases, Jakob Skovgaard, Roger Hildingsson, and Bengt Johansson
7. Environmental Policy in Times of Crisis: Romania's Troubled Transition, Simona Davidescu
8. The Effects of the International Economic Crisis on Spain's Environmental Policy, Rosa Fernandez
9. The Restoration of Biodiversity in France: From Words to Deeds, Nathalie Berny
10. European Environmental Policy at a Time of Crisis: Benign Neglect, or a Leader Losing Pace?, Charlotte Burns, Paul Tobin, and Sebastian Sewerin