dc.contributor.author
Meyer, Jan-Henrik
dc.date.accessioned
2018-06-08T07:44:35Z
dc.date.available
2011-12-01
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/18598
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-22291
dc.description
1\. Introduction 5 2\. Conceptual Clarifications 7 2.1 Mechanisms of Diffusion
7 2.2 How to Analyze Environmental Ideas? 8 3\. Where Did Ideas about the
Environment Come from? 9 4\. Which Ideas Were Adopted? The Environmental
Action Programme of 1973 12 5\. Which International Models Did the EC Draw on?
15 5.1 UNESCO - Man and the Biosphere 1968 16 5.2 US - National Environmental
Policy Act 1969 18 5.3 Council of Europe - European Conservation Year 1970 19
5.4 The UN Conference on the Human Environment 1972 20 5.5 Summary: Which
Ideas were Included? 21 6\. How and Why Did the EC Receive and Appropriate
Environmental Ideas? 23 7\. Conclusions 26 Literature 29
dc.description.abstract
Environmental policy has become an important area of European Union (EU)
policy making, even though it had not originally been foreseen in the Treaty
of Rome. Its emergence in the early 1970s can be understood as a result of a
transfer of the novel policy idea of the environment to the European level.
This paper thus inquires into the emergence of a European environmental policy
from a diffusion of ideas perspective. Rather than focusing on multi-level
policy making it seeks to trace the diffusion of environmental ideas from the
level of international organizations to the European Communities (EC) in the
early 1970s. It analyzes how and why these new concepts were taken up by the
European Communities and adapted to the specific institutional framework of
the EC. Starting with a brief introduction into the historical context, the
paper first explores the origins of the notion of the environment as a
political concept emerging in the context of international organizations at
the time. Secondly, an analysis of the first Environmental Action Programme of
1973 will be used to show how the EC conceptualized the environment, including
the definition of problems and potential remedies. Thirdly, the origins of
these ideas will be traced back to international models, from the UNESCO
conference “Man and the Biosphere” in 1968 onwards. In a final step, the paper
tries to explain the diffusion and reception of ideas. It examines how these
ideas were received by the EC, which actors were involved in this process, and
which mechanisms of diffusion played a role. The goal is thus to make a
contribution to the debate about the transnational diffusion of ideas.
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urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-fudocsseries000000000055-9
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http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/refubium/rechtliches/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft
dc.title
Appropriating the environment
dc.title.subtitle
how the European institutions received the novel idea of the environment and
made it their own
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/v/transformeurope/publications/working_paper/WP_31_Meyer_neu.pdf
refubium.affiliation
Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
de
refubium.affiliation.other
Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe"
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FUDOCS_document_000000012522
refubium.series.issueNumber
31
refubium.series.name
KFG working paper
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FUDOCS_derivate_000000001778
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open access