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Author : Thomas Hoerber,Gabriel Weber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000509267

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The European Environmental Conscience in EU Politics by Thomas Hoerber,Gabriel Weber Pdf

Based on empirical studies of European energy and environmental policies, this book suggests that, in combination, these two policy fields form a consensus in the EU which might also become the basis for a new European ideology, namely European ‘sustainabilism’. It asks why an environmental conscience has grown since the late 1960s in the industrialised world and shows that whilst there is undeniable environmental degradation during this time, and that a European environmental conscience has mainly developed through successive steps of European integration in energy policy. In this connection between energy and the environmental we find one driver for European integration and indeed European identity. If sustainabilism should become a European ideology, it will substantially influence the way future Europeans will live. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Studies, International Relations, Political Science, History, Economics, Sustainability Studies, Environmental and Energy Policies in Europe.

Author : Roland Francis Stephen
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472023233

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Vehicle of Influence by Roland Francis Stephen Pdf

This study examines a crucial period in European integration, ending in the early 1990s, when significant progress was made towards the dream of a unified European market. It shows how European automakers were part of these changes and how their influence within the institutions of the European Union (EU) yielded a wide range of policy compromises governing a single European car market. The book begins by reviewing the history of the EU and the logic of regional free trade, and goes on to develop a political explanation for the kinds of changes that actually occurred. The author argues that European automakers enjoyed a privileged place in the political arena, albeit one much transformed by the new institutions of the EU. Therefore, these firms often significantly influenced regional policy outcomes. The argument is applied to policymaking in the important areas of environmental regulation, trade, subsidies, and anti-trust regulation. This work lies at the intersection of business, economics, and political science and is of interest to both experts and non-specialists with an interest in the tremendous economic and political changes brought about by the creation of a united Europe and, more generally, by the worldwide process of regional economic integration. Academics, professionals, businessmen, and leaders in government all have something to learn from the way in which firms and governments combined to build the largest car market in the world. Roland Stephen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, North Carolina State University.

Author : Paul A. C. Sleigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : IND:30000037437740

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The European Automotive Components Industry by Paul A. C. Sleigh Pdf

Author : Hans-W Micklitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509944859

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The Making of Consumer Law and Policy in Europe by Hans-W Micklitz Pdf

This book analyses the founding years of consumer law and consumer policy in Europe. It combines two dimensions: the making of national consumer law and the making of European consumer law, and how both are intertwined. The chapters on Germany, Italy, the Nordic countries and the United Kingdom serve to explain the economic and the political background which led to different legal and policy approaches in the then old Member States from the 1960s onwards. The chapter on Poland adds a different layer, the one of a former socialist country with its own consumer law and how joining the EU affected consumer law at the national level. The making of European consumer law started in the 1970s rather cautiously, but gradually the European Commission took an ever stronger position in promoting not only European consumer law but also in supporting the building of the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), the umbrella organisation of the national consumer bodies. The book unites the early protagonists who were involved in the making of consumer law in Europe: Guido Alpa, Ludwig Krämer, Ewa Letowska, Hans-W Micklitz, Klaus Tonner, Iain Ramsay, and Thomas Wilhelmsson, supported by the younger generation Aneta Wiewiórowska Domagalska, Mateusz Grochowski, and Koen Docter, who reconstructs the history of BEUC. Niklas Olsen and Thomas Roethe analyse the construction of this policy field from a historical and sociological perspective. This book offers a unique opportunity to understand a legal and political field, that of consumer law and policy, which plays a fundamental role in our contemporary societies.

Author : Michael Patterson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781445669250

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Europe by Sleeping Car by Michael Patterson Pdf

Michael Patterson takes the reader on a charming illustrated nostalgic jaunt across Europe by sleeper.

Author : Reid Bramblett
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780764583551

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Europe For Dummies by Reid Bramblett Pdf

Lively and engaging, this invaluable handbook puts the continent's great cities and regions at your fingertips, and includes all the highlights plus the very best off-the-beaten-path experiences that make any visit to Europe memorable. Packed with experienced insider tips, Europe For Dummies offers: Essential information on London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich & the Bavarian Alps, Vienna, Prague, Rome, Florence & Tuscany, Venice, Barcelona, and Athens A select choice of favorite hotels and eateries in every destination and price category Indispensable foreign language glossaries Advice on everything from planning a sensible itinerary and getting the best deals to using public transit and catching must-see sights Helpful tips on converting currencies, overcoming language barrier, avoiding crowds, and sampling local cuisine

Author : Atle Midttun,Nina Witoszek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317644279

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Energy and Transport in Green Transition by Atle Midttun,Nina Witoszek Pdf

This book breaks new ground in the studies of green transition. It frames the ongoing transformation in terms of a "battle of modernities" with the emerging vision of ecomodernity as the final destination. It also offers a systematic exploration of the potential for extensive transformation of carbon-intensive sectors – with a focus on energy and transport – towards a low or post-carbon economy. The book does so in a comparative perspective, by pointing to a diversity of techno-economic and institutional solutions in the mature Western economies, and in the rapidly growing East and developing South. The contributors highlight a broad spectrum of available alternatives as well as illuminate conflicting interests involved. They also demonstrate how solutions to the climate challenge require parallel technological and governance innovation. The book advocates a new, overarching vision and agenda of ecomodernity – based on a synergistic paradigm-shift in industry, politics and culture – to trigger and sustain the ecological innovation necessary to tip development in a green direction. This vision cannot be monolithic; rather, it should reflect the diverse interests and conditions of the global population. This book is aimed at researchers and postgraduate students of energy, transport, environmental and climate policies, as well as development, environment, innovation and sustainability.

Author : United States. Department of Commerce,William I. Irvine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU09675140

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Automotive Markets in China, British Malaya, and Chosen by United States. Department of Commerce,William I. Irvine Pdf

Author : James Michael Laux
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : NWU:35556020340220

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The European Automobile Industry by James Michael Laux Pdf

Laux carefully examines how European factory owners emulated American success in production and sales between the wars, how the postwar market boom chipped away at American dominance of the industry, and how Japanese models in turn began to cut into the world market in the competitive 1980s. In this incisive overview, Laux determines that Europe's most successful automaking firms were generally those which identified a market and offered this market a product at a reasonable price.

Author : Roland Löwisch
Publisher : Motorbooks
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780760367681

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Junkyard by Roland Löwisch Pdf

Junkyard offers the only known photographic documentation of car collector Rudi Klein’s famed stockpile of distraught—but rare and valuable—vehicles from Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, Aston Martin, Maserati, and more. In 1967, Rudi Klein began quietly buying up wrecked, damaged, and worn-out high-end European cars under the business moniker “Foreign Auto Wrecking.” Over time, he amassed a stunning collection of treasures. Among the stash is a one-of-one 1935 Mercedes-Benz 500K built for pre-war Mercedes racer Rudolf Caracciola. No one is precisely sure what other prizes rest behind the yard’s not-open-to-the-public gates. Some 20 years ago, and after much negotiation, photographer Dieter Rebmann and author Roland Lowisch were permitted rare entrée to the salvage yard’s grounds to document its residents.This record of Klein’s collection is nothing short of amazing for any classic and collector car enthusiast. Sadly, Rudi passed away in 2001, but the collection remains under the care of his sons, who operate it as elusively as their father, maintaining its decades-long air of mystery and desirability.

Author : Ivan T. Berend
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429577765

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Against European Integration by Ivan T. Berend Pdf

This book gives a complex description and discussion of today’s populist attacks against the European Union (EU) following the financial crisis of 2008, which opened the floodgates of dissatisfaction, and the migration crisis which destabilized the traditional solidarity basis of the EU. The problem of Brexit is also explored. Each chapter presents one of the main elements of the crisis of the EU. These include West European populism, Central European right-wing populism in power, and the exploitation of the EU’s mistake during the migration crisis of the mid-2010s. These also include the discovery of Christian ideology against immigration and hidden anti-Semitic propaganda using a hysterical attack against the liberal billionaire philanthropist George Soros, and Brexit. There is a detailed discussion of the failures of the EU to pacify the neighbourhood in the South and North, especially in Ukraine, and the rising hostile outside enemies of the EU, including Russia and Turkey, bad relationships with Trump’s America, the uncertainty of NATO, and the emergence of a new rival, China, that enters into the Central European edge of the EU. The author explores strategies for coping with, and emerging from, this existential crisis and ends with the alternative plans and possibilities for the future of the eurozone. This will be an invaluable resource for understanding the crisis of the EU, one of the central questions of contemporary international politics for undergraduate and graduate students, and readers interested in the discussion surrounding an endangered European integration and difficult world politics.

Author : Hans Jeekel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317039396

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The Car-dependent Society by Hans Jeekel Pdf

Cars are essential in modern Western societies. Some even say that our modern lifestyles would have been impossible without cars. The dependency of Western societies on our cars is a unique situation in history, but does not get much attention; car use is seen as just a normal situation. The population at large knows the risks, knows the disadvantages, experiences the advantages and keeps driving. Using data from Western Europe, this book examines three key themes: frequent car use, car dependence, and the future of passenger car mobility in societies. In conclusion, in modern Western risk societies, more attention needs to be paid to car dependence, its driving forces, its advantages, its problems and challenges for the future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02
Category : Coal trade
ISBN : UCBK:C065236618

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Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Park Benjamin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Mechanical engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015074943021

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Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics by Park Benjamin Pdf

Author : A. J. Jacobs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030174316

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The Automotive Industry and European Integration by A. J. Jacobs Pdf

This book chronicles the divergent growth trends in car production in Belgium and Spain. It delves into how European integration, high wages, and the demise of GM and Ford led to plant closings in Belgium. Next, it investigates how lower wages and the expansion strategies of Western European automakers stimulated expansion in the Spanish auto industry. Finally, it offers three alternate scenarios regarding how further EU expansion and Brexit may potentially reshape the geographic footprint of European car production over the next ten years. In sum, this book utilizes history to help expand the knowledge of scholars and policymakers regarding how European integration and Brexit may impact future auto industry investment for all EU nations.