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Oceans Apart? Policy Reversals, Transatlantic Politics, and the EU Asbestos Ban

This is a chapter in the book Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics. which uses a wide range of case studies that embrace climate change, product standards, chemical regulations, renewable energy policies, food safety and genetically-modified organisms to examine areas of conflict and cooperation in the transatlantic relationship.

Marcus Carson / Published on 31 March 2009
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Carson, M. (2009). Oceans Apart? Policy Reversals, Transatlantic Politics, and the EU Asbestos Ban. Miranda Schreurs, Henrik Selin and Stacy VanDeveer, Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.

While there are many areas where the European Union and the United States are following divergent policy paths, there are also many signs that a more cooperative transatlantic relationship could emerge in the future.

The book provides an understanding on how the European Union and North America can cooperate more effectively in meeting today’s many global environmental and energy policy challenges. It is essential reading for all advanced students and scholars.

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