EU Environmental Policy

Having been created for reasons quite unconnected with the environment, the success of EU policy in this field has given it a compelling new justification. A leading authority on the development and application of EU environmental policy, Nigel Haigh, traces the evolution of the EU's environmental policy from obscurity to centrality and shows how a number of factors – including a number of environmental threats that came to prominence in the 1980s, and the new concept of sustainable development – has put environmental policy at the forefront of EU policy. Illuminating the EU’s achievements and challenges in the area of environmental policy, the book also contextualises the issues throughout its history and offers insight into the future role of the EU in environmental matters.