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Jan-Henrik Meyer
  • Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany

Jan-Henrik Meyer

MPI for Legal History and Legal Theory, Department I, Post-Doc
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BERLIN-BRANDENBURGER COLLOQUIUM for Environmental History Summer 2024more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History is an open forum for environmental history and environmental humanties, a place for discussing work in progress, research ideas and final publications. This semester we will have... more
The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History is an open forum for environmental history and environmental humanties, a place for discussing work in progress, research ideas and final publications. This semester we will have an international group of researchers, covering issues ranging from waste recycling in Soviet Ukraine, African Conservation, digital history and the environment and environmental history of intra-German relations during the Cold War.
Publication Date: 2024
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Engaging the Atom The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Presentmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer and Markku Lehtonen
With the aim of overcoming the disciplinary and national fragmentation that characterizes much research on nuclear energy, Engaging the Atom brings together specialists from a variety of fields to analyze comparative case studies across... more
With the aim of overcoming the disciplinary and national fragmentation that characterizes much research on nuclear energy, Engaging the Atom brings together specialists from a variety of fields to analyze comparative case studies across Europe and the United States. It explores evolving relationships between society and the nuclear sector from the origins of civilian nuclear power until the present, asking why nuclear energy has been more contentious in some countries than in others and why some countries have never gone nuclear, or have decided to phase out nuclear, while their neighbors have committed to the so-called nuclear renaissance. Contributors examine the challenges facing the nuclear sector in the context of aging reactor fleets, pressing climate urgency, and increasing competition from renewable energy sources.

Written by leading academics in their respective disciplines, the nine chapters of Engaging the Atom place the evolution of nuclear energy within a broader set of national and international configurations, including its role within policies and markets.

Contents
Preface

Introduction: Nuclear Energy and Society in Postwar Europe
Arne Kaijser, Markku Lehtonen, Jan-Henrik Meyer, and Mar Rubio-Varas

Part 1: Context
1. Nuclear-Society Relations from the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
Paul Josephson, Jan-Henrik Meyer, and Arne Kaijser

2. The Changing Economic Context Influencing Nuclear Decisions
Mar Rubio-Varas

Part 2: Actors
3. One Movement or Many? The Diversity of Antinuclear Movements in Europe
Albert Presas i Puig and Jan-Henrik Meyer

4. International Organizations and the Atom: How Comecon, Euratom,
and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Developed Societal Engagement
Paul Josephson and Markku Lehtonen

Part 3: Perspectives
5. Risky or Beneficial? Exploring Perceptions of Nuclear Energy
over Time in a Cross-Country Perspective
Josep Espluga, Wilfried Konrad, Ann Enander, Beatriz Medina, Ana Prades, and Pieter Cools

6. Trust and Mistrust in Radioactive Waste Management:
Historical Experience from High- and Low-Trust Contexts
Markku Lehtonen, Matthew Cotton, and Tatiana Kasperski

7. Nuclear Power and Environmental Justice: The Case for Political Equality
Matthew Cotton

8. Nuclear Energy in Europe: A Public Technology
Stathis Arapostathis, Robert Bud, and Helmuth Trischler

9. Nuclear Installations at European Borders: Transboundary Collaboration and Conflict
Arne Kaijser and Jan-Henrik Meyer

Conclusions: Future Challenges for Nuclear Energy and Society
in a Historical Perspective
Arne Kaijser, Markku Lehtonen, Jan-Henrik Meyer, and Mar Rubio-Varas

Contributors

Index
Publication Date: 2021
Publication Name: Morgantown: West Virginia University Press
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Siting Nuclear Installations at the Bordermore
by HoNESt History of Nuclear Energy and Society and Jan-Henrik Meyer
This special issue analyses cross-border relations - cooperation and conflict - provoked by the siting of nuclear installations - uranium mines, nuclear power plants, fast breeders and waste disposals plants - near national borders:... more
This special issue analyses cross-border relations - cooperation and conflict - provoked by the siting of nuclear installations - uranium mines, nuclear power plants, fast breeders and waste disposals plants - near national borders:

Nuclear Installations at the Border. Transnational Connections and International Implications. An Introduction, p. 1
Arne Kaijser, Jan-Henrik Meyer
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Siting (and mining) at the Border: Spain-Portugal Nuclear Transboundary Issues, p. 33
M.d. Mar Rubio-Varas, António Carvalho, Joseba De la Torre
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"The World's Worst Located Nuclear Power Plant": Danish and Swedish Cross-Border Perspectives on the Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant, p. 71
Arne Kaijser, Jan-Henrik Meyer
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The Superphénix Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor: Cross-border Cooperation and Controversies, p. 107
Claire Le Renard
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East-West German Transborder Entanglements through the Nuclear Waste Sites in Gorleben and Morsleben, p. 145
Astrid Mignon Kirchhof
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DOI: 10.1484/J.JHES.5.116793
Volume: 1
Page Numbers: 1-178
Publication Date: 2018
Publication Name: Journal for the history of Environment and Society
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Kaiser, Wolfram / Meyer, Jan-Henrik: International Organizations and Environmental Protection. Conservation and Globalization in the 20th Century. New York: Berghahn 2017more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international... more
Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and—following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment—implement and enforce actual international policies.

Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. His recent publications include Writing the Rules for Europe: Experts, Cartels, and International Organizations (2014, with J. Schot).

Jan-Henrik Meyer is Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at the University of Copenhagen for the research project “History of Nuclear Energy and Society” (HoNESt). He has been an Associate Professor at NTNU Trondheim, a Rachel Carson Fellow at LMU Munich and a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Portsmouth.
Series: Volume 11, Environment in History: International Perspectives
Subject: Environmental Studies 20th Century History
Area:

LC: TD170.2 .I559 2016

BISAC: POL044000 POLITICAL SCIENCE/Public Policy/Environmental Policy; SCI026000 SCIENCE/Environmental Science; HIS037070 HISTORY/Modern/20th Century

BIC: RNK Conservation of the environment; HBLW 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000



CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction: International Organizations and Environmental Protection in the Global Twentieth Century
Wolfram Kaiser and Jan-Henrik Meyer

Chapter 1. From Nature to Environment: International Organisations and Environmental Protection before Stockholm
Jan-Henrik Meyer

Chapter 2. Environmental Problem-solvers? Scientists and the Stockholm Conference
Enora Javaudin

Chapter 3. Developing World Environmental Cooperation: The Founex Seminar and the Stockholm Conference
Michael W. Manulak

Chapter 4. Only One Earth: The Holy See and Ecology
Luigi Piccioni

Chapter 5. Sometimes it’s the Economy, Stupid! International Organizations, Steel and the Environment
Wolfram Kaiser

Chapter 6. Making the Polluter Pay: How the European Communities Established Environmental Protection
Jan-Henrik Meyer

Chapter 7. (Re-) Thinking Environment and Economy: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and Sustainable Development
Iris Borowy

Chapter 8. Towards ‘Sustainable’ Development: The United Nations, INGOs, and the Crafting of the World Conservation Strategy
Stephen Macekura

Chapter 9. Protecting the Southern Ocean Ecosystem: The Environmental Protection Agenda of Antarctic Diplomacy and Science
Alessandro Antonello

Chapter 10.
Controlling the Agenda: Science, Policy and the Making of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
David G. Hirst

Conclusion: Setting Agendas, Building Institutions, and Shaping Binding International Commitments
Wolfram Kaiser and Jan-Henrik Meyer

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European History, Diplomatic History, Expert Systems, International Relations, Climate Change, and 30 more
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International Organizations and Environmental Protection Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century. ed. by Wolfram Kaiser and Jan-Henrik Meyer, Berghahn: New York 2017.more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer and Luigi Piccioni
" This fascinating book is one of those rare collections that have a shared and unified purpose. Collectively, the authors cover a diverse set of topics, draw on myriad original sources (including interviews as well as archival research),... more
" This fascinating book is one of those rare collections that have a shared and unified purpose. Collectively, the authors cover a diverse set of topics, draw on myriad original sources (including interviews as well as archival research), tell interesting and new stories, and make a variety of novel arguments. " · Bob H. Reinhardt, Executive Director, Willamette Heritage Center " This book is exceptionally helpful for understanding the interplay between emerging environmental concerns and international politics during the last century. It illuminates the crucial role played by international organisations in developing environmental policies, and in particular it traces the political resolve and intellectual effort behind the concept of sustainable development. " · Sara Lorenzini, University of Trento Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they and other environmental concerns have been a particular focus for international organizations from before the First World War to the present day. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of professional communities, NGOs, regional bodies, the United Nations, and other international organizations during the twentieth century. It follows their efforts to shape debates about environmental degradation, develop binding intergovernmental commitments, and—following the seminal 1972 Conference on the Human Environment—implement and enforce actual international policies. Fax: +44 (0) 1865 250056 Buy online with the code KAI620 (valid until Feb 28 th)
Location: New York
Publisher: Berghahn
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Societal Actors in European Integration. Polity-Building and Policy-Making 1958-1992, edited by W. Kaiser and J.-H. Meyer. Basingstoke: Palgrave 2013.more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer and W. Kaiser
In this volume an international cast of contributors analyze and discuss the role of societal actors in European integration from the creation of the present-day European Union in 1958 to the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. Based throughout on... more
In this volume an international cast of contributors analyze and discuss the role of societal actors in European integration from the creation of the present-day European Union in 1958 to the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. Based throughout on newly accessible sources the authors discuss a variety of societal actors from political parties to business groups and civil society organizations demonstrating the scope and limits of their role in European polity-building and policy-making before the Maastricht Treaty, with an outlook on the period since then. This is an important text for students and Scholars of European Studies, European Union Politics and contemporary History.

Beyond Governments and Supranational Institutions: Societal Actors in European Integration; W.Kaiser & J-H.Meyer
Europeanization of Christian Democracy? Negotiating Organization, Enlargement, Policy and Allegiance in the European People's Party; W.Kaiser
Shaping European Development Policy? Socialist Parties as Mediators from the International to the European Level; C.Salm
Regulating Markets: Peak Business Associations and the Origins of European Competition Policy; W.Bührer & L.Warlouzet
Developing a 'European strategy': Business Groups and Trade Policy-making in the Kennedy Round; L.Coppolaro
Preventing Reform: Farm Interest Groups and the Common Agricultural Policy; C.Germond
From Development Business to Civil Society? Societal Actors in Development Cooperation; M.Rempe
Demanding Democracy in the Workplace: The European Trade Union Confederation and the Struggle to Regulate Multinationals; F.Petrini
Establishing a Constitutional Practice: The Role of the European Law Associations; M.Rasmussen
Challenging the Atomic Community: The European Environmental Bureau and the Europeanization of Anti-Nuclear Protest; J-H.Meyer
Beyond Maastricht: Societal Actors in European Integration since 1992; K.Heard-Lauréote
Polity-Building and Policy-Making: Societal Actors in European Integration; W.Kaiser & J-H.Meyer
Publisher: Palgrave
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Non-State Actors in European Integration in the 1970s, edited by W. Kaiser and J.-H. Meyer. Special issue of Comparativ Vol. 20, No. 3, 2010.more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
The contributions to this special issue explore the role of non-state actors in the process of European Integration in a historical perspective.
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Focus Issue: Global Protest against Nuclear Power. Transfer and Transnational Exchange in the 1970s and 1980s, edited by A. M. Kirchhof and J.-H. Meyermore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Protest against nuclear power plants, uranium mining and nuclear testing was a major mobilizing force in the rise of mass environmental movements in the 1970s and 1980s around the globe. Nevertheless, the historiography of anti-nuclear... more
Protest against nuclear power plants, uranium mining and nuclear testing was a major mobilizing force in the rise of mass environmental movements in the 1970s and 1980s around the globe. Nevertheless, the historiography of anti-nuclear protest remains largely limited to national stories about heroic conflict and the rise of movements. The contributions to this focus issue explore the so far under-researched transnational dimension of the conflict in a global perspective. They make visible for the first time relevant transfers of scientific knowledge and protest practices as well as transnational exchange between activists and experts from Western Europe, the United States and Australia. Rather than taking transnational interaction for granted, the authors explore the conditions facilitating and hampering the transfer of ideas. They analyse why only certain activists were committed and able to cross borders, as well as the obstacles they were facing. Thus, this focus issue contributes to current academic debates in environmental history, the history of social movements as well as global and transnational history.

Global Protest against Nuclear Power

Astrid Mignon Kirchhof & Jan-Henrik Meyer: Global Protest against Nuclear Power. Transfer and Transnational Exchange in the 1970s and 1980s. [Abstract]
Stephen Milder: Between Grassroots Activism and Transnational Aspirations: Anti-Nuclear Protest from the Rhine Valley to the Bundestag, 1974-1983. [Abstract]
Jan-Henrik Meyer: “Where do we go from Wyhl?” Transnational Anti-Nuclear Protest targeting European and Inter-national Organizations in the 1970s. [Abstract]
Michael L. Hughes: Civil Disobedience in Transnational Perspective: American and West German Anti-Nuclear-Power Protesters, 1975-1982. [Abstract]
Astrid Mignon Kirchhof: Spanning the Globe: West-German Support for the Australian Anti-Nuclear Movement. [Abstract]
Publisher: GESIS
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publication Name: Historical Social Research 39: 1
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Meyer, Jan-Henrik 2010. The European public sphere. Media and transnational communication in European integration 1969-1991. (Studies on the History of European Integration Vol. 10). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner.more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
The traumatic failure of the European constitution seems to underpin doubts about a European public sphere that effectively interacts with the European Union and holds it to account. Is a European public sphere truly impossible? Has it... more
The traumatic failure of the European constitution seems to underpin doubts about a European public sphere that effectively interacts with the European Union and holds it to account. Is a European public sphere truly impossible? Has it been emerging as many social scientists have claimed – however only on the basis of more recent observations? This dissertation provides the first long-term historical analysis of a political European public sphere and its development over time. Starting out from a thorough consideration of the theoretical, conceptual and methodological innovations provided by social scientists in recent years, the study focuses on how British, French and German quality newspapers covered major European Council summits from The Hague in 1969 to Maastricht in 1991. Findings - based on quantitative and qualitative analyses of both reporting and commentary using a variety of methods - suggest that major events of European integration have long been accompanied by a vivid debate in the media. Moreover, the European public sphere underwent a notable structural transformation. The growth of a more developed European political system since the 1970s has led to a more politicised, more differentiated, more inclusive – and hence potentially more democratic – European public sphere in terms of participation in the debate and the range of issues covered. There was a notable increase in transnational communication. A discourse analysis of the commentary demonstrates changes in European identification – from a rather uniform association of Europe with progress to overcome the nation state towards a greater pluralism in European self-understanding, including Euro-scepticism, but also a sense of greater European responsibility in the post-Cold War world. The study suggests that an emerging European public sphere was much more responsive to the development of European integration than has previously been assumed.
More Info: PhD Free University Berlin 2008, for reviews see links below
Publisher: Franz Steiner
Publication Date: Jul 2010
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Special issues
Global Protest against Nuclear Power. Transfer and Transnational Exchange in the 1970s and 1980s, in: Historical Social Research, Vol. 39 (2014), No. 4. Focus issue ed. with Jan-Henrik Meyer.more
by Astrid Kirchhof and Jan-Henrik Meyer
Protest against nuclear power plants, uranium mining and nuclear testing was a major mobilizing force in the rise of mass environmental movements in the 1970s and 1980s around the globe. Nevertheless, the historiography of anti-nuclear... more
Protest against nuclear power plants, uranium mining and nuclear testing was a major mobilizing force in the rise of mass environmental movements in the 1970s and 1980s around the globe. Nevertheless, the historiography of anti-nuclear protest remains largely limited to national stories about heroic conflict and the rise of movements. The contributions to this focus issue explore the so far under-researched transnational dimension of the conflict in a global perspective. They make visible for the first time relevant transfers of scientific knowledge and protest practices as well as transnational exchange between activists and experts from Western Europe, the United States and Australia. Rather than taking transnational interaction for granted, the authors explore the conditions facilitating and hampering the transfer of ideas. They analyse why only certain activists were committed and able to cross borders, as well as the obstacles they were facing. Thus, this focus issue contributes to current academic debates in environmental history, the history of social movements as well as global and transnational history.
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Nuclear Power and Geography: How the European Communities Failed to Regulate the Siting of Nuclear Installations at Borders in the 1970s and 1980smore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
»Kernkraft und die Geographie europäischer Grenzen. Wie die Europäischen Gemeinschaften daran scheiterten, gemeinsame Regeln für die Standortwahl für Kernkraftwerke festzulegen«. Nuclear power plants require cooling water. When numerous... more
»Kernkraft und die Geographie europäischer Grenzen. Wie die Europäischen Gemeinschaften daran scheiterten, gemeinsame Regeln für die Standortwahl für Kernkraftwerke festzulegen«. Nuclear power plants require cooling water. When numerous nuclear plants were built in the 1970s, they were thus placed at major rivers. This caused cross-border problems, since in Europe, many rivers crossed or constituted borders. As awareness for thermal and radioactive pollution grew, border areas became hotbeds of European anti-nuclear protest. Advocates of European integration suggested that the European Communities (EC) were best positioned to resolve this issue. This article analyses the EC rulemaking attempts regarding the siting of nuclear power plants and explains why they failed. It argues that while the cross-border nature of the problem of nuclear installations at borders justified EC-level legal solutions, the geography of nuclear plants militated against supranational solutions-at a time of national vetoes and when energy security was considered a national sovereignty concern. The article is based on the analysis of primary sources from European Union and national archives. By taking the physical and political geography of nuclear energy into account, this article offers new perspectives on the role of borders and border studies, on the history of nuclear energy and society, and on the history of European integration.
DOI: 10.12759/hsr.49.2024.08
Publication Date: 2024
Publication Name: Historical Social Research
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From Nature to Environmentmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication Name: International Organizations and Environmental Protection
International Organizations and Environmental Protection in the Global Twentieth Centurymore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2017
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The making and unmaking of the European Union: Fifty-five years of crabwalk." Second HEIRS Conference, Portsmouth, 4-5 November 2005: papersmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2005
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Kleine Geschichte der Atomkraftkontroverse in Deutschlandmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2021
Setting Agendas, Building Institutions and Shaping Binding International Commitmentsmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2017
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Bessel, Richard and Dirk Schumann, eds. 2003. Life after Death. Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s. Cambridge: Cambridge UP: BuchbesprechungBook Reviewmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2004
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Habermas' Dream or Habermas' Nightmare? A Transnational, Participatory European Public Sphere at the Maastricht European Council 1991?more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2007
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Bürgerschaftliches Engagement über Grenzen? Europäische Umweltpolitik und transnationale Vernetzung von Umweltgruppen in den 1970er Jahrenmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2017
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Comparative Cross-Country Analysis on Preliminary Identification of Key Factors Underlying Public Perception and Societal Engagement with Nuclear Developments in Different National Contexts [HoNESt – History of Nuclear Energy and Society, Project Report D4.2]more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2018
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Conclusion: Setting Agendas, Building Institutions and Shaping Binding International Commitmentsmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication Date: Dec 31, 2022
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Introduction: International Organizations and Environmental Protection in the Global Twentieth Centurymore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication Date: Dec 31, 2022
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European Voices: Actors and Witnesses of European Integration." Third HEIRS Conference, Geneva, 16-17 March 2007: papersmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2007
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Who should pay for pollution? The OECD, the European Communities and the emergence of environmental policy in the early 1970smore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publisher: Informa
Publication Date: Jul 9, 2019
Publication Name: Routledge eBooks
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The Making of a European Public Sphere: Media Discourse and Political Contention. Edited by Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 356p. $93.00 cloth, $30.99 papermore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: Dec 1, 2012
Publication Name: Perspectives on Politics
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Appropriating the environmentmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Page 1. Appropriating the Environment How the European Institutions Received the Novel Idea of the Environment and Made it Their Own Jan-Henrik Meyer No. 31 | September 2011 WORKING PAPER Page 2. 2 | KFG Working Paper No. 31 | September... more
Page 1. Appropriating the Environment How the European Institutions Received the Novel Idea of the Environment and Made it Their Own Jan-Henrik Meyer No. 31 | September 2011 WORKING PAPER Page 2. 2 | KFG Working Paper No. 31 | September 2011 ...
Publication Date: 2011
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L'européanisation de la politique environnementale dans les années 1970more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publisher: Presses de Sciences Po
Publication Date: 2012
Publication Name: Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire
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The European Public Spheremore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Publication Date: Aug 14, 2012
Publication Name: Franz Steiner Verlag eBooks
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Simone Schleper, <i>Planning for the Planet. Environmental Expertise and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources 1960-1980</i>more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publisher: White Horse Press
Publication Date: Jun 1, 2022
Publication Name: Global environment
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Responding to the European Public?more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publisher: The White Horse Press
Publication Date: Jan 20, 2022
Publication Name: The White Horse Press eBooks
[Review of: Balbi, Gabriele; Fickers, Andreas (Hrsg.): History of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Transnational Techno-Diplomacy from the Telegraph to the Internet. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2020]more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: Jan 28, 2021
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Ideas, Actors and Political Practices in the Environmental History of Europemore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2020
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What can we learn from Studying the History of Nuclear Energy and Society in 20 countries? [HoNESt – History of Nuclear Energy and Society, Policy Brief I]more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2019
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[Rezension von: Thorsten Schulz-Walden, Anfänge globaler Umweltpolitik : Umweltsicherheit in der internationalen Politik (1969-1975). München : Oldenbourg, 2013]more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Publication Date: 2014
Publication Name: Neue politische Literatur
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A good European - Hans Edgar Jahn - Anti-Bolshevist, Cold-Warrior, Environmentalistmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2012
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Art
[Rezension von: Kemper, Claudia (Hrsg.): Gespannte Verhältnisse. Frieden und Protest in Europa während der 1970er und 1980er Jahre. Essen : Klartext Verlag 2017]more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2018
Greening Europe? Environmental Interest Groups and the Europeanization of a New Policy Fieldmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2010
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[Rezension von: Uekötter, Frank: Die Wahrheit ist auf dem Feld. Eine Wissensgeschichte der deutschen Landwirtschaft. Göttingen 2010]more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2011
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[Rezension von: Kaiser, Alexandra: Von Helden und Opfern. Eine Geschichte des Volkstrauertags. Frankfurt am Main 2010]more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2011
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Art
[Review of: The Making of a European Public Sphere: Media Discourse and Political Contention. Edited by Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010]more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2012
Publication Name: Perspectives on Politics
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Appropriating the Environment. How the European Institutions Received the Novel Idea of the Environment as a Policy Area and Made it Their Ownmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2011
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Transnationale Geschichte. Eine Perspektivemore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2014
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Appropriating the Environment: How the European Institutions Received the Novel Idea of the Environment and Made it their Ownmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publisher: RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Publication Date: Sep 21, 2011
Publication Name: RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
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CHAPTER 1 From Nature to Environment: International Organizations and Environmental Protection before Stockholmmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication Date: Dec 31, 2022
Publication Name: Berghahn Books
CHAPTER 6 Making the Polluter Pay: How the European Communities Established Environmental Protectionmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication Date: Dec 31, 2022
Publication Name: Berghahn Books
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Idées, acteurs et pratiques politiques de l’histoire environnementale européennemore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2020
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Kernkraft, Gesellschaft und Demokratie in den 1970er- und 1980er-Jahren [Rezension von: Gaumer, Janine: Wackersdorf. Atomkraft und Demokratie in der Bundesrepublik 1980–1989. München, 2018. Schramm, Luise: Evangelische Kirche und Anti-AKW-Bewegung. Das Beispiel der Hamburger Initiative kirchliche...more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2019
D6.3. Final Dissemination and Engagement Report [HoNESt – History of Nuclear Energy and Society, Project Report D6.3]more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2019
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Where did Environmentalism come from? [Review of: Rome, Adam: The Genius of Earth Day. How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation. New York : Hill and Wang 2013. Hamblin, Jacob Darwin: Arming Mother Nature. The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism. New York : Oxford Univer...more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2016
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Challenging the Atomic Community: The Emergence of the European Environmental Bureau and the Europeanization of Anti-Nuclear Protestmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2013
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Tracing Transnational Communication in the European Public Sphere: The Summit of The Hague 1969more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2009
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[Rezension von: Ansgar Klein, Ruud Koopmans, Hans-Jörg Trenz, Ludger Klein, Christian Lahusen, Dieter Rucht (Hg.): Bürgerschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Demokratie in Europa. Opladen: Leske + Budrich 2003]more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2004
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Europäische Integration und Identität [Rezension von: Müller-Härlin, Maximilian: Nation und Europa in Parlamentsdebatten zur Europäischen Integration. Identifikationsmuster in Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien nach 1950. Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlag 2008. Seidendorf, Stefan: Europäisierung...more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2009
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[Rezension von: Gassert, Philipp: Bewegte Gesellschaft. Deutsche Protestgeschichte seit 1945. Stuttgart 2018]more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2018
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A European Public Sphere at the Summits of The Hague (1969) and Paris (1974)? Common Issues and Frames in British, French and German Newspapersmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2006
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[Review of: Lowe, Keith: Savage Continent. Europe in the Aftermath of World War II. London 2012]more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2013
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Denmark: Short Country Report [HoNESt – History of Nuclear Energy and Society, Short Country Reports D3.6]more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2018
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Does Mediatisation mean more Conflict? The Case of the European Councils 1969-1991 [Paper presented at the Fourth ECPR General Conference, Pisa 2007]more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2007
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(De-)Constructing Legitimacy in the European Public Sphere. German, French and British Newspaper Comments on the "Constitution" Summit 2004more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2006
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Der Haager Gipfel 1969. Von den Krisen der Europäischen Gemeinschaften der 1960er Jahre zum europäischen politischen Systemmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Publication Date: 2009
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And 123 more

Talks
Umweltpolitik in internationalen Organisationen und der Europäischen Union Textmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
This talk provides an overview of the interrelated development of international (intergovernmental) organisations and international NGOs in nature conservation and the emerging field of the environment since 1900. It provides insights... more
This talk provides an overview of the interrelated development of international (intergovernmental) organisations and international NGOs in nature conservation and the emerging field of the environment since 1900. It provides insights into why the European Union became the leading IO on environmental issues since the 1970s in Europe. The talk is in German.
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Name: Talk at the Evangelische Akademie Abt Jerusalem, Braunschweig, Germany
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Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History Spring 2015more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium presents its new programme for the spring / summer semester 2015 (April - July) - covering a global range of environmental issues from nuclear testing in the Pacific, forests on the Philippines, to water... more
The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium presents its new programme for the spring / summer semester 2015 (April - July) - covering a global range of environmental issues from nuclear testing in the Pacific, forests on the Philippines, to water management in Southern France and the colonization of the German moorlands. Some of the core themes of this semester are nuclear and energy issues and  the emergence of the Green party. We are looking forward to intense and fruitful discussion in an informal atmosphere.
Location: Humboldt-University Berlin, Friedrichstr. 191-193, 5th Floor, Room 5061, 6:30-8:30
Organization: Humboldt-University Berlin, Aarhus University, New York University Berlin
Conference End Date: Jul 16, 2015
Conference Start Date: Apr 16, 2015
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The Europeanization of Environmental Policy in the 1970smore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
This talk is part of the Research Seminar Series "Towards a European Public Sphere - An illustration considering environmental issues" (Vers un espace public européen. Une illustration par les questions environnementales" at the German... more
This talk is part of the Research Seminar Series "Towards a European Public Sphere - An illustration considering environmental issues" (Vers un espace public européen. Une illustration par les questions environnementales" at the German Historical Institute (DHI) in Paris, organized by Christian Wenkel. Please find the flyer attached.
Time: 3 PM to 5 PM
Location: DHI Paris, 8, rue du Parc Royal, 75003 Paris, France
Event Date: Jan 9, 2015
Organization: German Historical Institute (DHI), Paris
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Transformations of the Ecology Movement / Transformationen des Ökologiebewegung 1972-1992more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer and Christoph Becker-Schaum
The ambition of this workshop is to explore the development of the new environmental movement and the modernisation of the nature conservation movement during the two decades between the 1972ʼs study ‚Limits to Growth‘ and the UN... more
The ambition of this workshop  is to explore the development of the new environmental movement and the modernisation of the nature conservation movement during the two decades between the 1972ʼs study ‚Limits to Growth‘ and the UN conference for the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The goal is to explore continuities and change with a view to the issues and concerns of the environmentalists, their interaction at and across different levels of policy-making e.g. with policymakers, media and society, as well as the organisational structures of the environmental
movement and the various groups and actors it consists of.

Since seating is limited, please register by e-mail to [email protected]

German:
Die Tagung fragt nach der Entwicklung der neuen Umweltbewegung und der Modernisierung der Naturschutzbewegung in den 20 Jahren, die zwischen dem Erscheinen der Studie "Die Grenzen des Wachstums" 1972 und der UN-Konferenz von Rio im Jahr 1992 liegen. Dabei sollen Konstanten und Veränderungen hinsichtlich der Themenfelder, Handlungsebenen und der umweltpolitischen Akteure herausgearbeitet werden.

Während die Forderungen nach Atomausstieg und Energiewende seit den 1970er Jahren kontinuierlich im Zentrum der Forderungen der Umweltbewegung stehen und regelmäßig in der Öffentlichkeit präsent sind, haben andere Themenfelder nur sporadisch solche Aufmerksamkeit erfahren: Müll und Verkehr, Chemie und Gentechnologie, Boden, Luft und Wasser sowie die Tiere und Pflanzen, die unseren Planeten bewohnen. Diese Themen sind aber gewissermaßen das Kerngeschäft der Umweltbewegung; eine Vielzahl lokaler Initiativen belegen und beleben das .

Mit u.a.:

Dr. Jan-Henrik Meyer, New York University Berlin, Environmental Studies
Dr. Christoph Becker-Schaum, Leiter Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin
Das vollständige Tagungs-Programm finden Sie hier.

Veranstaltungsort:
Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Eldenaer Str. 35
10 247 Berlin

Information:
Dr. Christoph Becker-Schaum, Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis
E-Mail [email protected], Telefon 030-285 34 -265

Anmeldung:
Eine Teilnahme ist nur nach Absprache mit Dr. Christoph Becker-Schaum möglich. Der Vortrag "Studying environmental movements in a rapidly changing world" von Christopher Rootes am 14.11. um 19 Uhr ist eine öffentliche Veranstaltung.
Location: Berlin: Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Eldenaer Str. 35 10247 Berlin
Event Date: Nov 14, 2014
Organization: Green Memory Archive / Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis; New York University Berlin
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Stephen Milder (Rutgers University): “Greening Democracy”more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Thursday, November 13, 2014 NYU Berlin Global Research Institute, 4th Floor, 6:30pm–8:00pm Greening Democracy: The Movement Against Nuclear Energy and the Emergence of Political Environmentalism, 1968–1983 Stephen Milder (Rutgers... more
Thursday, November 13, 2014
NYU Berlin Global Research Institute, 4th Floor,
6:30pm–8:00pm
Greening Democracy: The Movement Against Nuclear Energy and the Emergence of Political Environmentalism, 1968–1983

Stephen Milder (Rutgers University) will present his book project, providing a fascinating new perspective on German and transnational environmentalism as well as anti-nuclear activism in a pivotal period. The talk is part of the Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History series, jointly organized by Astrid M. Kirchhof (Humboldt-University Berlin) and Jan-Henrik Meyer (NYU Berlin). Since seating is limited, please register until November 12th by email to: [email protected].
Location: NYU Berlin Global Research Institute, 4th Floor, Schönhauser Allee 36, 10435 Berlin
Event Date: Nov 13, 2014
Organization: NYU Berlin / Berlin Brandenburger Colloquium für Umweltgeschichte
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Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History Fall 2014 / Berlin Brandenburger Colloquium für Umweltgeschichte Winter 2014/15more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
The Berlin Branderburg Colloquium for Environmental History provides a forum for research and exchange in Environmental History / Environmental Humanities in the German Capital Region and beyond. This Fall/Winter, we present 8 talks, half... more
The Berlin Branderburg Colloquium for Environmental History provides a forum for research and exchange in Environmental History / Environmental Humanities in the German Capital Region and beyond. This Fall/Winter, we present 8 talks, half of them by international guests. with topics ranging from the history of climatology to rural environments in the Southern Mediterranean or pollution in the Great Lakes. Everybody interested is cordially invited to join our intense discussion. Proposals for talks in subsequent semesters are welcome, too.

Fall/Winter Semester 2014/15

Thursday, 16.10.2014
Jan-Henrik Meyer (Berlin):
‘Me, too!’ International Organisations and the Emergence of a European Environmental Policy

Thursday, 30.10.2014
Silke Vetter-Schultheiß (Darmstadt):
Bilder machen Geschichte. Bildpolitiken im Natur- und Umweltschutz von 1950 bis 1990

Thursday, 13.11.2014
Stephen Milder (Rutgers University, USA):
Greening Democracy: The Movement Against Nuclear Energy and the Emergence of Political Environmentalism, 1968 - 1983
Achtung: This session will take place at NYU Berlin, Schönhauser Allee 36, Buildiing 2.2, 4th floor!

Thursday, 04.12.2014
Juliane Schumacher (Berlin):
Knowledge, Nature and the Re-Structuring of Rural Environments in the Southern Mediterranean

Thursday, 11.12.2014
Philip Nicolas Lehmann (Harvard, USA):
Reading Imperial Skies: Climatology and the Limits of Colonial Planning

Thursda, 08.01.2015
Mary Durfee (Michigan Tech, USA):
Bacteriology and Diplomacy in the North American Great Lakes, 1912-28

Thursday, 22.01.2015
Lina Röschel (Berlin):
Managing the Seas: Advantages and Limits to Marine Protected Areas

Thursday, 05.02.2015
Dan Tamir (Truman Institute/ Arava Institute, Israel):
Der Gegenwart einen Namen zu geben: Erdölära – und was nun?

Place:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Entrance Kronenstraße, 5th floor, Room 5061.

Time:
18:30 (s.t.) – 20:30 hrs

Open to everyone interested.

Please contact the organizers:
Astrid Kirchhof [email protected]
Jan-Henrik Meyer [email protected]
Location: Humboldt-University Berlin, Friedrichstr. 191-193, 5th Floor, Room 5061
Organization: Humboldt-University Berlin, New York University Berlin
Conference Start Date: Oct 16, 2014
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Teaching Documents
Environmental Politics Panel: The Rise of Environmentalismmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 NYUB Academic Center, Room “Prenzlauer Berg” 1:45pm–3:00pm This lunchtime seminar at NYU Berlin - organised by Jan-Henrik Meyer - is focusing on an important feature of postwar West German society: the rise of... more
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
NYUB Academic Center, Room “Prenzlauer Berg”
1:45pm–3:00pm

This lunchtime seminar at NYU Berlin - organised by Jan-Henrik Meyer - is focusing on an important feature of postwar West German society: the rise of environmentalism. Our two distinguished guest speakers are experts on the topic: Dr. Ute Hasenöhrl, a chronicler of the German environmental movement, and Dr. Andrew Tompkins, a historian of German and French anti-nuclear movements. Together they will tackle the issue from two perspectives: Its rootedness in traditional nature conservation and the new, transnational anti-nuclear movement.
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Conference Presentations
Conference Programme: " Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit " Auseinandersetzungen um die Nutzung der Kernenergie und insbesondere den Umgang mit hochradioaktiven Abfällenmore
by HoNESt History of Nuclear Energy and Society and Jan-Henrik Meyer
In die " Endlager‐Governance " der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist Bewegung gekommen. Die Kommission " Lagerung hoch radioaktiver Abfallstoffe " (2014‐2016, kurz: Endlager‐Kommission) und die Kommission zur Überprüfung der Finanzierung des... more
In die " Endlager‐Governance " der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist Bewegung gekommen. Die Kommission " Lagerung hoch radioaktiver Abfallstoffe " (2014‐2016, kurz: Endlager‐Kommission) und die Kommission zur Überprüfung der Finanzierung des Atomausstiegs (2015 bis 2016; kurz: Finanzierungs‐Kommission) wurden eingerichtet, ebenso ein Nationales Begleitgremium (NBG) für die Standortsuche. Darüber hinaus wurden Gesetze erlassen und die Zuständigkeiten neu verteilt. Auch die Kommunikation zwischen Entscheidungsträgern und der Anti‐Atom‐Bewegung ist dabei sich zu verändern. Auffallend an den vielfältigen Prozessen der Institutionalisierung ist, dass alle Bemühungen um eine erfolgversprechende Standortsuche im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes von der Vergangenheit eingeholt werden. Die jahrzehntelange Polarisierung, die den " Atomkonflikt " in Deutschland zwischen dem Staat und der Nuklearindustrie auf der einen und der Anti‐Atom‐ Bewegung auf der anderen Seite prägte, wirkt noch heute in alle auch noch so versöhnlich klingenden Bemühungen eines " Neuanfangs " hinein. Immer wieder – bei Veranstaltungen wie in Publikationen – wird daher die " Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit " und der Konflikte um die Nutzung der Kernenergie im Allgemeinen und der Frage der Endlagerung im Speziellen gefordert. Bei der Tagung " Alles falsch gemacht " hat sich etwa die Bürgerinitiative Umweltschutz Lüchow‐Dannenberg Anfang 2016 dem Thema gewidmet. Und auch das NBG fordert, sich mit den historisch gewachsenen Ursachen des Misstrauens der Bevölkerung gegenüber den staatlichen Institutionen auseinander zu setzen. Auf der geplanten Tagung, die das Forschungszentrum für Umweltpolitik (FFU) der FU Berlin organisiert, sollen mit relevanten Akteuren die Themenfelder und Formen der inhaltlichen Auseinandersetzung identifiziert und diskutiert werden, die zu einer " Vergangenheitsbewältigung " beitragen könnten. Im Rahmen der Tagung soll bisherige und aktuelle Untersuchungen und Prozesse zur Aufarbeitung der Konflikte analysiert werden und neue Zugänge und Möglichkeiten der Kooperation mit der Zivilgesellschaft identifiziert werden. Am Samstag schließt die Tagung mit einer Besprechung und eventuell konkreten Planung zur Operationalisierung der identifizierten Zugänge in Kooperation mit Gruppe der " Aufarbeitung " , einem lockeren Zusammenschluss von Akteuren und Wissenschaftler*innen, die sich seit vielen Jahren mit der Thematik befassen. Freitag, 27.10. 11.00 Uhr Impulsvorträge: Warum Aufarbeitung? Achim Brunnengräber, Daniel Häfner (beide FFU): Begrüßung, kurzer Hintergrund der Tagung Michael Müller (Endlager‐Kommission): Warum ist eine Aufarbeitung notwendig?
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ENTRIA Conference Programme "Governing Nuclear Waste", 20-21 Sept. 2016, FFU Berlinmore
by HoNESt History of Nuclear Energy and Society and Jan-Henrik Meyer
HoNESt researcher Jan-Henrik Meyer chairs panel at ENTRIA Conference: “Governing Nuclear Waste”- Conflicts, Participation and Acceptability FU Berlin - ENTRIA “Disposal options for radioactive residues: Inter-disciplinary analyses and... more
HoNESt researcher Jan-Henrik Meyer chairs panel at ENTRIA
Conference: “Governing Nuclear Waste”- Conflicts, Participation and Acceptability
FU Berlin -  ENTRIA “Disposal options for
radioactive residues: Inter-disciplinary analyses and
develop-ment of evaluation principles“
September 19. + 20.09.2016
Harnack-Haus, Ihnestraße 16-20,
14195 Berlin
Organized by the FFU of the Freie
Universität Berlin
Prof. Dr. Miranda Schreurs
Dr. Achim Brunnengräber (Associate Professor)

The Federal Ministry for Education and Research
(BMBF, 02S9082B) is supporting the interdisciplinary
research platform, “Disposal options for
radioactive residues: Inter-disciplinary analyses and
develop-ment of evaluation principles“ (ENTRIA) for
the period 2013-2017.
The Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) of
the Freie Universität Berlin is a member of the
ENTRIA platform and is conducting a project on
governance of radioactive waste storage in Germany
and abroad.
www.entria.de
How to get to the Harnack-Haus:
http://www.harnackhausberlin.
mpg.de/11090/Directions
We ask for registration till 01. September, 2016. For
registration please contact Ms Dörte Themann via EMail:
[email protected]
The conference is free of charge.
Contact
Freie Universität Berlin
Forschungszentrum für Umweltpolitik
Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Fachbereich Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
Prof. Dr. Miranda Schreurs
Dr. Achim Brunnengräber (Associate Professor)
Ihnestr. 22
D-14194 Berlin
http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/entria
http://www.fu-berlin.de/ffu
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Jan-Henrik Meyer presents HoNEST at: Platenso workshop Nuclear and Energy from the perspective of Social Sciences and Humanitiesmore
by HoNESt History of Nuclear Energy and Society and Jan-Henrik Meyer
Nuclear and Energy from the perspective of Social Sciences and Humanities within the project: Building a platform for enhanced societal research related to nuclear energy in Central and Eastern Europe (PLATENSO, Fission-2013-6.0.1) April... more
Nuclear and Energy from the perspective of Social Sciences and Humanities
within the project:
Building a platform for enhanced societal research related to nuclear
energy in Central and Eastern Europe
(PLATENSO, Fission-2013-6.0.1)
April 7th, 2016
Collegium Civitas, Warsaw
Programme
Through a series of seminar talks and a group discussion, the workshop aims to present some examples of nuclear and energy research in social sciences and humanities. The idea is to organize a research network mostly within New Member States countries and share analysis and results, integrating as well international researchers and also different fields and disciplines addressing nuclear and society.
Location: Warsaw
More Info: Collegium Civitatis
Event Date: Apr 7, 2016
Organization: Platenso
Conference End Date: Apr 7, 2016
Conference Start Date: Apr 7, 2016
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HoNESt present with two panels at ESSHC 2016, March 31, Valenciamore
by HoNESt History of Nuclear Energy and Society, Jan-Henrik Meyer, Mar Rubio, John Whitton, Josep Espluga, Matthew Cotton, and Ioan Charnley-Parry
Panels: History of Nuclear Energy and Society I: Nuclear Power, International Organizations and Anti-nuclear Movements in a Comparative and Transnational Perspective and: History of Nuclear Power and Society II: How to Research... more
Panels:
History of Nuclear Energy and Society I: Nuclear Power, International Organizations and Anti-nuclear Movements in a Comparative and Transnational Perspective

and:

History of Nuclear Power and Society II: How to Research Societal Perceptions of and Engagement with Nuclear Energy in a Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective
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Workshop: Multiple connections in European Cooperation. International Organisations and Policy Transfers in the 1970s and 1980smore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Workshop on International organizations and European Integration
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HoNESt Presentation in CEMES Research Group Copenhagen, 19 May 2015more
by HoNESt History of Nuclear Energy and Society and Jan-Henrik Meyer
Seminar Schedule
Centre for Modern European Studies Research Group
Speakers: Jan-Henrik Meyer, Gabriel Siles-Brügge
Chair: Brigitte Leucht
Time: 12 PM to 3 PM
Location: University of Copenhagen
Event Date: May 19, 2015
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HoNESt - Project presentation in Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental Historymore
by HoNESt History of Nuclear Energy and Society, Astrid Kirchhof, and Jan-Henrik Meyer
Donnerstag, 4.06.2015 Jan-Henrik Meyer (Aarhus & University of Copenhagen) & Albert Presas I Puig (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) HoNESt – Exploring the History of Nuclear Energy and Relations with Society in Europe Societal... more
Donnerstag, 4.06.2015 Jan-Henrik Meyer (Aarhus & University of Copenhagen) &
Albert Presas I Puig (Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

HoNESt – Exploring the History of Nuclear Energy and Relations with Society in Europe
Societal perceptions of and political responses to nuclear power differ widely between European countries. Funded by Horizon 2020/Euratom, the collaborative research project HoNESt (History of Nuclear Energy and Society) sets out to explain variety and change in European societies’ relations with nuclear energy on the basis of the historical experience. Assembling an interdisciplinary team of 22 partner institutions in Europe, HoNESt embarks on the first comprehensive comparative and transnational analysis of nuclear developments and their relations with society in 20 countries during the past 60 years. Providing an innovative interdisciplinary framework, the project embraces the complexity of political, technological and economic dimensions, issues of safety, risk perception and communication, public engagement and media framing. It takes seriously the role and often contradictory perspectives of the actors involved – industry, policy makers, experts, civil society actors and the media –, as well as the rapidly changing contexts over the past 60 years.
Location: Berlin, Humboldt-University
Event Date: Jun 4, 2015
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Stockholm 1972 – Beyond the Diplomats. Transnational Activism, Alternative Agendas, and the Construction of a Global Public Spheremore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
The Stockholm United Nations Conference on the Human Environment of 1972 is probably the most-quoted event in the history of the emerging international environmental politics. It has routinely been described as a catalyst for the global... more
The Stockholm United Nations Conference on the Human Environment of 1972 is probably the most-quoted event in the history of the emerging international environmental politics. It has routinely been described as a catalyst for the global breakthrough of environmental awareness, environmental policy and environmentalism. Surprisingly, the actual event has attracted relatively little attention from environmental historians so far. Existing analyses focus mainly on the diplomatic history of the event – the conflict between the developing world and the developed countries about the developmental implications of the new agenda. While the Conference has been considered part of the story of an emerging “global environmental movement” (McCormick 1995) as a first meeting place of NGOs and environmental groups, a more extensive analysis of the role NGOs actually played is lacking so far.
This paper seeks to provide a first attempt at revisiting Stockholm beyond the closed rooms of the diplomats. It sets out to take a closer look at the Environmental Forum (Miljöforum) established on the margins of the UN Conference. Apart from its role as a meeting place facilitating the transnational exchange of ideas, which probably accounts for much of its long-term impact, the immediate role of the Environmental Forum was to engage with the conference itself. Thus the focus of this paper is to analyse how the environmentalists cooperated to challenge the official diplomatic agenda, which alternative agendas they advanced and promoted, and how they sought to establish an alternative transnational public sphere (notably by publishing the Stockholm Conference Eco), holding the diplomats and governments accountable. The findings of this paper will be relevant both for environmental historians, but also for “new” diplomatic historians. Moreover they shed light on the origins of what is by now a familiar phenomenon, i.e. the role of NGOs at international (environmental) conferences.
Location: Versailles, France
Event Date: Jun 30, 2015
Organization: "Greening History: Studying the Environment across Disciplines, Past, Present and Future ", Conference of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH)
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Relevant Others? Perspectives across the Cold War Divide and the Rise of European Environmental Policymore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Conventionally, the history of the rise of environmental policy in Europe is presented as a Western phenomenon. While most environmental historians now readily accept that the invention of the environment as a political concept was shaped... more
Conventionally, the history of the rise of environmental policy in Europe is presented as a Western phenomenon. While most environmental historians now readily accept that the invention of the environment as a political concept was shaped by transnational exchange and highlight the role of international organizations, they routinely take a Western perspective, focusing on the role of the US and Sweden as frontrunners and on the Council of Europe, the United Nations, NATO and the OECD as international pacesetters. That the breakthrough of the environment on the agenda of politics and policy-making is so firmly associated with the Stockholm UN Conference of 1972 has probably even strengthened this interpretation. The Stockholm Conference was beset by the usual Cold War tensions in international politics. Given that the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was not (yet) an official member of the UN, Western countries were not willing to accept the participation of the GDR at the time. Hence, out of solidarity with their East German allies, the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact countries retreated from the event. Thus the conference itself was shaped by North-South conflicts, rather than the familiar East-West tensions. The self-exclusion of the Warsaw Pact countries may have contributed to the image of their notional irrelevance in the history of environmental politics.
However, when sifting through the files of those involved in shaping early European environmental policy, you will find that substantial accounts on environmental policy as well as the environmental situation in the Soviet Union and other countries East of the Iron Curtain are routinely included, along with papers collected on the US, the Nordic countries and Japan.
Based on this observation, this paper – that is exploratory in nature – argues that in terms of environmental policy, the Soviet Union and Eastern European experience indeed was not as insignificant in the discussions of how to devise an appropriate European policy as the conventional accounts might suggest. Based on newly accessible sources from the European Union archives, the paper will examine to what extent Eastern European and Soviet were included in the preparations of the new policy, when defining environmental problems and solutions. By systematically comparing records on Eastern Europe and Soviet Union environmental problems and policies to those collected on the United States, the Northern countries and Japan, the paper will provide new insights on the rise of environmental politics and policy making in the Cold War context and the European Community institution’s recognition of Eastern Europe and Soviet Union as “relevant others” regarding the environment.
Location: Washington D.C.
More Info: "Nature Protection, Environmental Policy and Social Movements in Communist and Capitalist Countries during the Cold War", organized by Astrid M. Kirchhof and John McNeill
Event Date: May 29, 2015
Organization: Georgetown University / German Historical Institute
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Zero Hours Conference: The Environment – Silent Spring as a Zero Hourmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
My paper contributes to the Zero Hours Authors' Workshop on Conceptual History, organized by Hagen Schulz-Forberg and Matthias Kumm, see programme. As a contribution on the environment as a key modern political concept, It examines... more
My  paper contributes to the Zero Hours Authors' Workshop on Conceptual History, organized by Hagen Schulz-Forberg and Matthias Kumm, see programme. As a contribution on the environment as a key modern political concept, It examines Rachel Carson's temporalisation of the environmental crisis, analysing her critique in terms of a zero hour of the emergence of the environment.
Location: WZB Berlin
Event Date: Jan 15, 2015
Organization: Aarhus University and Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
Conference End Date: Jan 16, 2015
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Expert Panel
BERLIN-BRANDENBURGER COLLOQUIUMmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History is an open forum for environmental history and environmental humanties, a place for discussing work in progress, research ideas and final publications. This semester we will have... more
The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History is an open forum for environmental history and environmental humanties, a place for discussing work in progress, research ideas and final publications. This semester we will have an international group of researchers, covering issues ranging from waste recycling in Soviet Ukraine, African Conservation, digital history and the environment and environmental history of intra-German relations during the Cold War.
Publication Date: 2024
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Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environnmenta Historymore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History provides for an informal exchange on research in the environmental humanities. We will start with environmental policy and banks in Europe (Cellini) and ending up in February with... more
The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History provides for an informal exchange on research in the environmental humanities.
We will start with environmental policy and banks in Europe (Cellini) and ending up in February with a ship-load of toxic waste and its environmental (justice) implications. In between, there is the Baltic Sea (Antons), the left-overs of uranium mining, and other toxic substances in East Germany (Cypionka, Pieper), but we will also - on a brighter note - hear about the future of cultural landscapes in Brandenburg - Germany's dryest state... - from someone who has tried so shape and safe these landscapes - (Succow).


The colloquium will continue to be online - for the widest possible participation - and we will meet on mondays, at 6 p.m.
Publication Date: 2023
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Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History, Winter 2022-2023more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer and Markku Lehtonen
The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History will present a broad range of environmental history talks online during the Winter Semester 2022-23 Donnerstag, 20.10.2022 Fabian Zimmer (Berlin): Hydroelektrische Projektionen.... more
The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History will present a broad range of environmental history talks online during the Winter Semester 2022-23

Donnerstag, 20.10.2022 Fabian Zimmer (Berlin):
Hydroelektrische Projektionen. Eine Emotionsgeschichte der Wasserkraft im Industriefilm
Kommentar: Agnes Limmer (München)
Donnerstag, 24.11.2022 Birgit Müller (Paris):
Sensors versus Senses. Control and the Perception of Reality in Climate-Smart Farming
Hybrid: Salle Georg Simmel, Centre Marc Bloch, 3. Etage, Friedrichstr. 191-193 und Online
Mittwoch (!), 14.12.2022 Stefan Esselborn (München):
Die Risikoindustrie: Kernenergie und Risikowissen in der BRD
In Kooperation mit der Abteilung Wissen -Wirtschaft- Politik (Rüdiger Graf), ZZF Potsdam
Abweichend: 16-18 Uhr, Hybrid: Humboldt-Raum, Am Neuen Markt 1 und Online
Donnerstag, 12.01.2023 Nuclear Energy in Europe: Double book discussion
Engaging the Atom. A history of nuclear energy and society & Pathways into and out of nuclear power
Kommentar: Stephen Milder (München)
Donnerstag, 02.02.2023 Katja Bruisch (Dublin)
Extraction and the making of place: How the peat industry transformed a central Russian region
Publication Date: 2022
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BBC Winter 2021 - 2022 finalmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
The Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History is an open forum for discussing environmental history research broadly defined. This semester, our topics are either European or global. Elisa Tizzoni will present her... more
The Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History is an open forum for discussing environmental history research broadly defined.
This semester, our topics are either European or global.


Elisa Tizzoni will present her research on the environmental policies of the European Court of Auditors, and we will discuss the new Handbook on European Environmental History edited by Anna Katharina Wöbse und Patrick Kupper.

Jacob Darwin Hamblin will take us across the global history of Atoms for Peace, while Elizabeth Hameeteman will familiarise us with the techno-scientific Can-Do world of visions of water desalinization - some of which driven by nuclear energy, too...
Publication Date: 2021
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CFP: Workshop: Doing Energy History in Times of Transitionmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Organizers: Tensions Energy History Working Group, [email protected] Group Coordinators: Odinn Melsted (Maastricht University), Ute Hasenöhrl (University of Innsbruck), Jan-Henrik Meyer (Max Planck Institute for Legal History... more
Organizers: Tensions Energy History Working Group, [email protected]

Group Coordinators:
Odinn Melsted (Maastricht University), Ute Hasenöhrl (University of Innsbruck), Jan-Henrik Meyer (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory)

Date and time: July 1st, 2021, 1 pm – 5 pm CET DST
Deadline for proposals: May 10th, 2021

In recent years, many historians of energy have related their work to contemporary debates about energy transitions and examined past changes in energy provision from a variety of perspectives. Those include shifts between specific energy carriers or technologies, grand transitions between energy regimes, deep transitions, infrastructure transitions, case studies of socio-technical transitions, to name but a few. While this research has vastly increased our knowledge on past processes, structures, actors, dynamics of energy production and consumption, and patterns of transitions, there has been little systematic discussion on how historians should best deal with the – admittedly presentist – “transitions” paradigm.

This half-day online workshop on the 1st of July 2021 will critically engage with the omnipresence of “transitions” in current energy history research. Organized by the Tensions Energy History Working Group (part of the 2nd Tensions of Europe flagship program “Technology & Societal Challenges”), it seeks to bring together scholars of all ranks and ages – including PhD students – who are currently working on or have recently completed research projects in energy history that deal with “transitions” in one way or another. The workshop seeks to facilitate discussion particularly on the following (but also other) questions:

• Which kinds of transitions should historians focus on?
• What are the pitfalls of focusing on “transitions” and not continuities?
• Which theoretical approaches and concepts have proven to be helpful when examining historical transitions (from your experience)?
• How can historians examine “transitions in scale” from low to high levels of energy consumption?
• How can we approach changes within established energy patterns, such as from low to high levels of electricity use in households?
• Should historians prioritize transitions in energy production or consumption?
• Should we only examine successful transitions, or also “failed” or “aborted” ones? What can be learned from looking at “failures”?
• Or, alternatively, should historians abandon the transitions paradigm altogether, and instead focus on continuities, energy “additions”, or “transformations”?

Please send a short description of how your research project relates to one or more of these issues, how it deals with transitions and what you would like to contribute to the discussion of around 300 words to [email protected] until May 10th, 2021. The workshop will take place on Zoom on July 1st, 2021. Participants will be expected to hand in short papers (1.000-2.000 words) with an extended abstract of their research project and discussion inputs to be circulated to the participants beforehand.
Publication Date: 2021
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Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History Summer 2021more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
This colloquium provides an open forum for the discussion of environmental history research broadly defined in the region and internationally. This semester it is fully online, covering two main issues: First a mini-series of three events... more
This colloquium provides an open forum for the discussion of environmental history research broadly defined in the region and internationally. This semester it is fully online, covering two main issues: First a mini-series of three events on the Uses of the Past in environmental history and the history of technology, followed by two talks in June on the history of nuclear energy and uranium mining in West and East Germany.
Everyone is invited to attend. Please email us to register and obtain the login detail at [email protected]
Publication Date: 2021
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Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History Winter 2020-2021more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
This colloquium provides an open forum for the discussion of environmental history research broadly defined in the region and internationally. This semester it is fully online, covering topics ranging from the Marshall Plan to Nature... more
This colloquium provides an open forum for the discussion of environmental history research broadly defined in the region and internationally. This semester it is fully online, covering topics ranging from the Marshall Plan to Nature Reserves in Israel/Palestine, from Global Environmental History to Wilderness in the Scottish Highlands
Publication Date: 2020
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Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History Summer 2019more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer and Kristian Mennen
We are happy to present a number of new research projects, on environmental policy avant la lettre in the Netherlands and the UK, on the colonisation of the climate, and on the second generation of the makers of environmentalism in the... more
We are happy to present a number of new research projects, on environmental policy avant la lettre in the Netherlands and the UK, on the colonisation of the climate, and on the second generation of the makers of environmentalism in the German Green party. Finally, we are particularly happy to have a guest from Brazil who will introduce us to how environmental ideas have been discussed among lawyers in the global south.
Publication Date: 2019
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Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History (Winter 2018-2019)more
by Astrid Kirchhof and Jan-Henrik Meyer
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Buchpraesentation Umweltbeherrschung: Julia Obertreis (Erlangen) "Imperial Desert Dreams" Christoph Bernhard (Erkner) "Im Spiegel des Wassers"more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Donnerstag, 17.05.2018 Doppel-Buch-Präsentation „Umweltbeherrschung und Staatsbildung“: Julia Obertreis (Erlangen) "Imperial Desert Dreams" Christoph Bernhard (Erkner) "Im Spiegel des Wassers" Kommentar: Timothy Moss (Berlin) Moderation:... more
Donnerstag, 17.05.2018 Doppel-Buch-Präsentation
„Umweltbeherrschung und Staatsbildung“:
Julia Obertreis (Erlangen) "Imperial Desert Dreams"
Christoph Bernhard (Erkner) "Im Spiegel des Wassers" Kommentar: Timothy Moss (Berlin)
Moderation: Astrid M. Kirchhof, Jan-Henrik Meyer
Abweichender Raum: 5009, Friedrichstr. 191-193, 5. Stock
Besprochene Bücher:
Julia Obertreis: Imperial Desert Dreams.
Cotton Growing and Irrigation in Central Asia, 1860-1991 (= Kultur und Sozialgeschichte Osteuropas /Cultural and Social History of
Eastern Europe; Bd. 8), Göttingen:
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2017


Christoph Bernhardt: Im Spiegel des Wassers. Eine transnationale Umweltgeschichte des Oberrheins (1800-2000) (= Umwelthistorische Forschungen; Bd. 5), Köln / Weimar /
Wien: Böhlau 2016


Der Zusammenhang von Wasserinfrastrukturpolitik und staatlicher Herrschaft ist ein seit langem diskutiertes Thema historischer Forschung. Die beiden Bücher untersuchen diese Frage für das 19. und 20. Jahrhundert am Beispiel der russländischen und sowjetischen Imperiumsbildung in Zentralasien einerseits und der Staatsbildung im Zeitalter des Nationalismus am Rhein andererseits. Im Fokus stehen die Planung und Umsetzung von Großprojekten wie die Korrektur des Rheins zum Zwecke der Landgewinnung und die Erschließung der Hungersteppe in Usbekistan mit dem Ziel der Ausweitung des Baumwollanbaus. Gravierende ökologische Folgen wie die Verlandung des Aralsees und die langfristig wachsende Hochwassergefahr am Rhein stellten die vielfach positiv konnotierten Modernisierungsprojekte in Frage. Aus den empirischen Analysen werden Schlussfolgerungen für neuere Theoriedebatten gezogen, etwa zum high modernism. Auf diese Weise werden die Bedeutung und die langfristigen Linien einer auf Umweltbeherrschung gegründeten staatlichen Hegemonie und gesellschaftlichen Modernisierung in unterschiedlichen politisch-kulturellen Kontexten sichtbar.
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Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History Summer 2018 Schedulemore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer, Birgit Müller, and Frederik Schulze
The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History provides an open forum for the discussion of environmental history projects broadly defined. This semester we will start on 17 May with a double book presentation on the... more
The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History provides an open forum for the discussion of environmental history projects broadly defined.

This semester we will start on 17 May with a double book presentation on the venerable issue of the hydraulic society - with two projects on controlling water in Russia and Germany.

Further talks relate to East German environmental policy, Japan's dealing with disasters, the Temelin nuclear power plant and transnational cooperation across borders (and its pitfalls), as well as Brazilian dams.

Donnerstag, 17.05.2018 Doppel-Buch-Präsentation
„Umweltbeherrschung und Staatsbildung“:
Julia Obertreis (Erlangen) "Imperial Desert Dreams"
Christoph Bernhard (Erkner) "Im Spiegel des Wassers" Kommentar: Timothy Moss (Berlin)
Moderation: Astrid M. Kirchhof, Jan-Henrik Meyer
Abweichender Raum: 5009, Friedrichstr. 191-193, 5. Stock
Donnerstag, 24.05.2017 Julia Mariko Jacoby (Berlin / Freiburg): Prediction for Planning: How Catastrophism Became Part of Japanese Disaster Policy Making 1892-1978
Donnerstag, 28.06.2017 Sophie Lange (Berlin): Deutsch-deutsche Umweltpolitik im internationalen und gesellschaftlichen Kontext des Ost-West-Konflikts, 1970-1990
Donnerstag, 05.07.2018 Birgit Müller (Paris): Clashes of Cultures of Protest. Anti-Nuclear Activism at the Czech - Austrian Border
Donnerstag, 12.07.2018 Frederik Schulze (Münster): Environment and Knowledge. Large Dams in Latin America in the Twentieth Century

Ort: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Eingang Friedrichstr., Lift in den 4. Stock, Raum 4026.
Zeit: 18:00 (c.t.) – 20:00 Uhr
Kontakt: Astrid M. Kirchhof [email protected]
Jan-Henrik Meyer [email protected]
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Berlin Brandenburger Colloquium für Umweltgeschichte SoSe 2017 / Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History Summer 2017more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer and HoNESt History of Nuclear Energy and Society
The Berlin Brandenburg for Environmental History has been providing a forum for discussing environmental history broadly defined since 2012. This summer term we will present 7 talks - ranging from colonial environments in Africa,... more
The Berlin Brandenburg for Environmental History has been providing a forum for discussing environmental history broadly defined since 2012. This summer term we will present 7 talks - ranging from colonial environments in Africa, Australia and India to recycling in East Germany and anti-nuclear protest.

Celebrating our 5th anniversary, we will start the semester with the Jubilee talk by

Professor KATE BROWN (American Academy Berlin / Baltimore, USA).
The Great Chernobyl Mystery: How Ignorance became Policy and Politics

Friedrichstr. 191-193, R. 5061

Wednesday, 03.05.2017
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BERLIN-BRANDENBURGER COLLOQUIUM FÜR UMWELTGESCHICHTE / Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History Winter 2016/17more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer and HoNESt History of Nuclear Energy and Society
The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History - organised by Astrid M. Kirchhof and Jan-Henrik Meyer since 2012 - provides a meeting place for international and local researchers and students to discuss their work in... more
The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History - organised by Astrid M. Kirchhof and Jan-Henrik Meyer  since 2012 -  provides a meeting place for international and local researchers and students to discuss their work in environmental history - broadly defined - in an informal setting in Berlin.
This semester talks will range from the history of environmental movements in East Germany to forest fires in the Atlantic Northeast of Canada and the United States, from ports and rivers in India to the so-far-unwritten history of environmental policy emerging from the Nordic Council, from Gorleben's nuclear waste story to the unfamiliar environments of the Caribbean, and the history of climate migration.

Please feel welcome to join our discussion!
Location: Berlin, Friedrichstr. 191-193
Organization: Humboldt-University
Research Interests:
American History, Social Movements, Canadian Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History, Climate Change, and 33 more
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BERLIN-BRANDENBURG COLLOQUIUM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY Summer 2016more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer, Astrid Kirchhof, and HoNESt History of Nuclear Energy and Society
Donnerstag, 21.04.2016 Jan-Henrik Meyer (Trondheim/Copenhagen): Challenging the Ultimate Resource. Reviewing Social Movement Approaches to the Nuclear Energy Conflict in a Historical Perspective Donnerstag, 12.05.2016 Axel Zutz (Cottbus):... more
Donnerstag, 21.04.2016 Jan-Henrik Meyer (Trondheim/Copenhagen): Challenging the Ultimate Resource. Reviewing Social Movement Approaches to the Nuclear Energy Conflict in a Historical Perspective
Donnerstag, 12.05.2016 Axel Zutz (Cottbus): Von den Mühen der Ebene in der Peripherie Brandenburgs: Protagonisten, Periodika und Praxis des Natur- und Heimatschutzes in der Niederlausitz zwischen 1900 und 1990
Donnerstag, 19.05.2016 Veronika Settele (Berlin): Die Produktion von Tieren. Landwirtschaftliche Tierhaltung in Deutschland, 1950 – 1980
Donnerstag, 09.06.2016 Alison Kraft (Birmingham): Radiological Dangers: From Unsafe Spaces to Environmental Hazard, 1900 - 1958
Donnerstag, 23.06.2016 Regine Auster (Potsdam): Umweltrecht in der DDR –
Zum Wirken von Ellenor Oehler
Donnerstag, 30.06.2016 Christina Gerhardt (Hawaii, USA):
A Rose is a Rose is a Rose: Natural History in Adorno's Negative Dialectics
Donnerstag, 14.07.2016 Santiago Gorostiza (Coimbra): Building a Fascist Wall: The Transformation of the Pyrenees during the Francoist Dictatorship in Spain (1939 – 1959)
Donnerstag, 21.07.2016 Anja Neumann (Frankfurt, Oder): Die Obstbausiedlung „Eden“ bei Oranienburg unter dem Einfluss völkischer Ideen (1893-1933)
Research Interests:
Social Movements, Environmental Law, German History, Animal Studies, Environmental Studies, and 25 more
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Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental history presents: John Mc Neill: Global Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution: Work in (Slow) Progress Event language will be English, 19 Feb 2016, 6 pm, Berlin Heinrich Böll Foundation, Schumannstr. 8more
by Astrid Kirchhof, Jan-Henrik Meyer, HoNESt History of Nuclear Energy and Society, and Christoph Becker-Schaum
This talk concerns the ecological impacts of industrialization, c. 1780 to c. 1920. Environmental historians have taken stock of the pollution effects of industrialization in Britain, Germany, the USA, Japan and elsewhere. And they... more
This talk concerns the ecological impacts of industrialization, c. 1780 to c. 1920. Environmental historians have taken stock of the pollution effects of industrialization in Britain, Germany, the USA, Japan and elsewhere. And they recognize the impacts of burning fossil fuels upon the Earth's atmosphere and climate. However, there is more to the environmental history of industrialization than that: there are "ecological teleconnections." The best leather straps for textile mills came from bison hide from the American West. The best insulation for underwater cables came from the resin of a tree found only in Southeast Asia. All the fuels, fibers, ores, and lubricants necessary for industrialization had to come from somewhere, and before 1920 most of them came more or less directly from nature. And they had to come in ever-increasing quantities. This talk considers cotton and wool, lead and copper, palm oil and whale oil among other ingredients of industrialization, and the ecological perturbations that resulted from growing, harvesting, or extracting them.
Short Bio:
J.R. McNeill has held two Fulbright awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations as well as the Woodrow Wilson Center. His books include Something New Under the Sun (2000), winner of two prizes, listed by the London Times among the 10 best science books ever written (despite not being a science book), and translated into 9 languages; The Human Web (2003), translated into 7 languages; and Mosquito Empires (2010), which won the Beveridge Prize from the AHA and was listed by the Wall Street Journal among the best books in early American history. In 2010, he was awarded the Toynbee Prize for “academic and public contributions to humanity.”
Time: 6 PM to 9 PM
Location: Berlin, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Schumannstr. 8
More Info: Public Talk by John Mc Neill, Georgetown
Event Date: Feb 19, 2016
Organization: Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History, Humboldt-University Berlin, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, NYU Berlin, Centre for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin
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Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History: Kickoff and Programme 2012 / Auftaktveranstaltung und Programm 2012more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History started in 2012 with an invited lecture by Michael Zeheter on Cholera in the British Empire. This open forum on environmental history - initiated by Astrid Kirchhof and... more
The Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History started in 2012 with an invited lecture by Michael Zeheter on Cholera in the British Empire. This open forum on environmental history  - initiated by Astrid Kirchhof and Jan-Henrik Meyer - has been seeking to bring local and international researchers together in their interest in environmental history broadly defined. It is open to researchers at all levels of their careers. Moreover, we have been discussing topics ranging from the local to the global.
This document describes our goals and introduces our guest speaker.
Location: Berlin
Event Date: Jun 21, 2012
Organization: Humboldt-University Berlin
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Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History (Winter 2012/13)more
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Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History (Summer 2013)more
by Astrid Kirchhof and Jan-Henrik Meyer
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Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History (Winter 2013/14)more
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Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History (Summer 2014)more
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Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History (Winter 2014/15)more
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Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium for Environmental History (Summer 2015)more
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Films
HoNESt Film No. II Nuclear Energy and Societal Engagement in Europemore
by HoNESt History of Nuclear Energy and Society and Jan-Henrik Meyer
This final film presents the core findings of the project History of Nuclear Energy and Society - insights on the history of public engagement, public perceptions and backcasting ideal engagement futures. View at:... more
This final film presents the core findings of the project History of Nuclear Energy and Society - insights on the history of public engagement, public perceptions and backcasting ideal engagement futures.

View at: https://youtu.be/0REA0WMrEiU
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Name: HoNESt film No. 2
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HoNEST Podcast 5 Nuclear Energy as a Cross-Border, Public Technologymore
by HoNESt History of Nuclear Energy and Society and Jan-Henrik Meyer
5. The 5th HoNESt podcast focuses on understanding how nuclear energy can be considered a public technology, as well as the important cross border aspects of this issue, as illustrated by research on Siting Nuclear Installations at the... more
5. The 5th HoNESt podcast focuses on understanding how nuclear energy can be considered a public technology, as well as the important cross border aspects of this issue, as illustrated by research on Siting Nuclear Installations at the border. The episode is featuring Robert Bud (Science Museum London), Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum Munich / Rachel Carson Center LMU Munich), whose article on public technology is coming out in History and Technology in 2019 https://doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2018.1570674 , as well as Arne Kaijser (KTH, Stockholm) and Jan-Henrik Meyer (Copenhagen), whose special issue on Siting Nuclear Installations at the Border has come out with the Journal for the History of Environment and Society 3, 2018, available: https://www.brepolsonline.net/toc/jhes/2018/3/+

The podcast is accessible at:
https://soundcloud.com/citizenreporter/nuclear-energy-as-a-cross
DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2018.1570674
Publication Date: 2018
Publication Name: HoNESt podcast
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HoNESt Podcast Episode 4: The Chernobyl Effect: The Relationship Between Society & Nuclear Energymore
by HoNESt History of Nuclear Energy and Society, Luigi Piccioni, and Jan-Henrik Meyer
On this edition of the HONEST podcast we explore the legacy of Chernobyl in terms of how it changed the relationship between nuclear energy and society in the context of: Sweden, Italy, East Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union. Guests... more
On this edition of the HONEST podcast we explore the legacy of Chernobyl in terms of how it changed the relationship between nuclear energy and society in the context of: Sweden, Italy, East Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union.

Guests on this podcast include:
Arne Kaijser, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
Luigi Piccioni, University of Calabria
Julie Ault, University of Utah
Paul Josephson, Colby College

This programme was recorded in the context of the Conference  "Chernobyl – Turning Point or Catalyst? Changing Practices, Structures and Perceptions in Environmental Policy and Politics (1970s-1990s)", which took place in Berlin between the 2 and 3rd December 2016. Co-organised by HoNESt's Jan-Henrik Meyer - in cooperation with Marianne Zepp and Christoph Becker-Schaum of the Heinrich-Boell-Foundation, Berlin. Partners of this conference were the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, the Centre for Metropolitan Studies Berlin and the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam.
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HoNESt PodcastEpisode 2 Methodology How can we research relations between nuclear energy and society.pdfmore
by HoNESt History of Nuclear Energy and Society, Jan-Henrik Meyer, John Whitton, and Matthew Cotton
Welcome to the HONEST Podcast, the program that brings you the sounds of a multiyear, multidisciplinary research project on how society looks at and has looked at nuclear energy since it appeared in different countries and across borders... more
Welcome to the HONEST Podcast, the program that brings you the sounds of a multiyear, multidisciplinary research project on how society looks at and has looked at nuclear energy since it appeared in different countries and across borders and how this relationship has changed or remained over time… with help from 23 research institutions and a long list of researchers some of which you will hear from during this program.

This is episode 2, covering the question of “How to conduct such a large body of research”, “How to achieve the goal better understanding society and nuclear energy”.. in the academic world we would call this “the methodology episode.”

In this episode we hear from:
Jan-Henrik Meyer, University of Copenhagen
John Whitton, University of Central Lancashire
Karl-Erik Michelsen, Lappeenranta University of Technology
Mar Rubio-Varas, Universidad Pública de Navarra
Matthew Cotton, University of Sheffield
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HoNESt Podcast HoNESt: An Innovative Approach to Nuclear Energy and Societymore
by HoNESt History of Nuclear Energy and Society, Jan-Henrik Meyer, Mar Rubio, John Whitton, and Josep Niubò
On this innaugeral episode of the HoNESt Podcast, we introduce this fantastic new research project and some core members of the team. Topics include: the goal of the project, how it came together, the methods and approaches that will be... more
On this innaugeral episode of the HoNESt Podcast, we introduce this fantastic new research project and some core members of the team. Topics include: the goal of the project, how it came together, the methods and approaches that will be used, and the whys and hows of the complex relationship between nuclear energy and society. Guests include: Mar Rubio (Universitad publica de Navarra), Karl-Erik Michelsen (Lappenrantta University), Jan-Henrik Meyer (University of Copenhagen), John Whitton (University of Central Lancashire), Josep Niubo (Universitad Pompeu Fabra), Robert Bud (Science Museum), and Wilfried Konrad (Dialogik). To learn more and follow the progress of the project, go to www.honest2020.eu .

Access the podcast at: https://soundcloud.com/honest-podcast/honest-an-innovative-approach-to-nuclear-energy-and-society

engagement nuclear europe sociology history HoNESt research
Release date:
9 December 2015
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Book Reviews
Reviews: New Publications on the history of Nuclear Technology in Germany and Central Europemore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Christian Forstner 2019: Kernphysik, Forschungsreaktoren und Atomenergie. Transnationale Wissensströme und das Scheitern einer Innovation in Österreich. Wiesbaden: Springer Spektrum, brosch., XII + 270 S., 1 Abb., 44.99 €, ISBN:... more
Christian Forstner 2019: Kernphysik, Forschungsreaktoren und Atomenergie. Transnationale Wissensströme und das Scheitern einer Innovation in Österreich. Wiesbaden: Springer Spektrum, brosch., XII + 270 S., 1 Abb., 44.99 €, ISBN: 978-3-658-25446‑9.

Dolores Augustine 2018: Taking on Technocracy. Nuclear Power in Germany. 1945 to the Present (Protest, Culture & Society 24). New York: Berghahn, geb., 304 S., 9 Abb., 135.00 US$, ISBN: 978-1-78533-645‑4.

Natalie Pohl 2019: Atomprotest am Oberrhein. Die Auseinandersetzung um den Bau von Atomkraftwerken in Baden und im Elsass (1970–1985) (Schriftenreihe des Deutsch-Französischen Historikerkomitees 15). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, brosch., 443 S., 68.00 €, ISBN: 978-3-515-12401‑0.

Astrid M. Eckert 2019: West Germany and the Iron Curtain. Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands. Oxford: Oxford University Press, geb., 368 S., 64.00 GBP, ISBN: 978-0-190-69005‑2.



Almost ten years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and the subsequent decision to close down all nuclear reactors in Germany by 2022, the history of nuclear energy remains a flourishing topic. And many studies focus on the experience in Germany and Central Europe in general. Nuclear issues are no longer studied only by historians of science and technology or social movement researchers. Nuclear history is increasingly viewed as part and parcel of contemporary social and political history, reflecting upon societal debates on democracy, the role of experts and technocracy, and of decisions about technological and economic modernisation. Nuclear history is self-evidently analysed as transnational history, and—following the spatial turn—as a characteristic of border regions and their history (as recently argued by Arne Kaijser and the author of this review). ....
DOI: 10.1007/s00048-020-00274-4
Publication Date: 2020
Publication Name: NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
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Rezension: Meyer über Milder, Stephen 2017. Greening Democracy.more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Jan-Henrik Meyer 2018. The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In Werkstattgeschichte No. 78, 107-110,... more
Jan-Henrik Meyer 2018.  The Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In Werkstattgeschichte No. 78, 107-110, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WG78_107-110_Meyer_Greening.pdf
Publication Date: 2018
Publication Name: Werkstattgeschichte No. 78
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Book Review on Andrew Tompkins 2016 Better Active than Radioactivemore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Meyer on Tompkins, 'Better Active than Radioactive!: Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany' Author: Andrew S. Tompkins Reviewer: Jan-Henrik Meyer Andrew S. Tompkins. Better Active than Radioactive!: Anti-Nuclear Protest... more
Meyer on Tompkins, 'Better Active than Radioactive!: Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany'
Author:
Andrew S. Tompkins
Reviewer:
Jan-Henrik Meyer
Andrew S. Tompkins. Better Active than Radioactive!: Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. XV, 265 S. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-877905-6; $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-182620-7.

Reviewed by Jan-Henrik Meyer Published on H-German (September, 2018) Commissioned by Jeremy DeWaal

Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=48455
Publication Date: 2018
Publication Name: h-german
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Meyer, Jan-Henrik 2013: Rezension über: Karena Kalmbach: Tschernobyl und Frankreich. Die Debatte um die Auswirkungen des Reaktorunfalls im Kontext der französischen Atompolitik und Elitenkultur (rezensiert für Neue Politische Literatur 58, 1, 2013, 150-151)more
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Meyer, Jan-Henrik: Rezension über: Karena Kalmbach, Tschernobyl und Frankreich. Die Debatte um die Auswirkungen des Reaktorunfalls im Kontext der französischen Atompolitik und Elitenkultur, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2011, in: Neue... more
Meyer, Jan-Henrik: Rezension über: Karena Kalmbach, Tschernobyl
und Frankreich. Die Debatte um die Auswirkungen des
Reaktorunfalls im Kontext der französischen Atompolitik und
Elitenkultur, Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2011, in: Neue Politische
Literatur, 58 (2013), 1, S. 150-151, heruntergeladen über
recensio.net
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Making European Environmental Law. Ideas, Actors and Institutionsmore
by Jan-Henrik Meyer
Why is there an environmental policy in the European Union (EU)? Why did an - primarily - economic community establish a substantial body of environmental law made at the supranational level? And European environmental law matters: for... more
Why is there an environmental policy in the European Union (EU)? Why did an - primarily - economic community establish a substantial body of environmental law made at the supranational level? And European environmental law matters: for some of the EU countries the law made by the European institutions accounts for almost all of the environmental legislation in place. Furthermore: Why does EU environmental law look the way it does and cover certain problem, while not addressing others? What instruments does EU environmental law encompass – and how does EU environmental law link up with the law of the member states? These are some of the core issues that this talk addresses. The lecture will seek to provide explanations in a historical perspective by going back to the origins of European Environmental Policy and law-making in the 1970s. The talk will focus on the role of ideas, actors and institutions.
Publication Date: 2021
Publication Name: 2021 Academy on German and European Law Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG), Thammasat University, Thailand
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