On the “Contemporary European History” Handbook Series

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. On the “Contemporary European History” Handbook Series IX
4. 1 Introduction: Writing a European History of Environmental Protection 1
5. I Conserving Nature
6. 2 Counting Birds: Protecting European Avifauna and Habitats 17
7. 3 Europe and its Environmental Other(s): Imagining Natures for “Global” Conservation 47
8. 4 Restoring, Reintroducing, Rewilding: Creating European Wilderness 73
9. 5 Protecting Eurofisch: An Environmental History of the European Eel and its Europeanness 101
10. 6 Transcending the Cold War: Borders, Nature, and the European Green Belt Conservation Project along the Former Iron Curtain 129
11. II Preserving Livelihoods
12. 7 Transforming Woodlands: European Forest Protection in a Global Context 157
13. 8 Travelling (Western) Europe: Tourism, Regional Development, and Nature Protection 185
14. 9 Moving Mountains: The Protection of the Alps 217
15. 10 Negotiating the Maritime Commons: Protecting the Baltic Sea in a European Context 243
16. 11 Recycling Europe’s Domestic Wastes: The Hope of “Greening” Mass Consumption through Recycling 269
17. III Sustaining Environments
18. 12 Visualizing the Invisible: Communicating Europe’s Environment 305
19. 13 Revealing Risks: European Moments in Nuclear Politics and the Anti-Nuclear Movement 331
20. 14 Combatting “Acid Rain”: Protecting the Common European Sky 363
21. 15 Developing Europe: The Formation of Sustainability Concepts and Activities 389
22. 16 Europeanizing Biodiversity: International Organizations as Environmental Actors 419
23. 17 Epilogue: The Nature of Europe 447
24. List of Contributors 451
25. Index 455