Achilles, Manuela
Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic Perspective
1. Introduction: Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic and Multidisciplinary Perspective
Manuela Achilles, Dana Elzey
Part I. Broader Contexts of Sustainable Development
2. Putting a Price on the Plant: Economic Valuation of Nature’s Services
Mark White
3. International Trade and the Environment: Does Globalization Create Havens of Pollution?
Peter Debaere
4. New Directions in Green City Building
Timothy Beatley
Part II. Germany’s Energy Revolution
5. The German Green Party: From a Broad Social Movement to a
Arne Jungjohann
6. Germany’s Ecological Tax Reform: A Retrospective
Michael Mehling
7. ‘Nuclear Power? No, Thank You!’: Germany’s Energy Revolution Post-Fukushima
Manuela Achilles
8. Ambitions and Realities of the German Energy Revolution
Brian Marrs
Part III. Transatlantic Cooperation at the Macro and Micro Levels
9. The Transatlantic Climate Bridge: Challenges and Opportunities
Anja Kueppers-McKinnon, Georg Maue, Carmen Krista
10. Formalizing the Transfer and Application of Environmental Policies and Lessons from Germany to the United States: The Case of Northern Virginia
Dale Medearis
11. Cultivating the Cross-Cultural Engineer: Key Insights
Dana Elzey, Kerstin Steitz
12. Designing for the Anthropocene: The Duisburg Rhine Park
Jörg Sieweke
13. Eco-Revelatory Design: An Approach You Can Bank On
Eugene Ryang
14. Conclusion and Outlook
Manuela Achilles, Dana Elzey
Keywords: Environment, Environmental Politics, Environmental Geography, Political Science, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Economics, European Politics
- Editor
- Achilles, Manuela
- Elzey, Dana
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Energy, Climate and the Environment Series
- Page amount
- 254 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137334480
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-46275-9