By Scheuer, S., 2005

This book provides a short outline of EU environmental policy history, analyses and presents some 60 pieces of EU environment and nature protection legislation, most of which have been adopted in the last 15 years, establishing links between the different pieces of legislation. Against the current decline in environmental policy and the trend towards its subordination to jobs and economic growth, the book encourages an informed and intelligent use of existing legislative networks and calls for resistance to attempts to water it down.