Hi Folks, Thanks so much to all of you who replied to my request for more info on the role of the EU in LRTAP. My student now has a wealth of information on the subject and is really enjoying the project. We may have a convert to GEP :)
See below for the collected responses for those who are interested. Thanks again, dgwebster On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 2:37 PM, DG Webster <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I've got a student who's researching LRTAP and is having trouble figuring > out the role of the EU. There's conflicting information from different > sources and not enough primary documentation from the UNECE site to get at > the question. Any suggestions would be welcome. > > thanks much, > dgwebster > > 1. Hello DG, This article is from 2003, but still holds up pretty well on basic CLRTAP-EU relationships and linkages: http://people.bu. edu/selin/publications/SelinVanDeveerGEP2003.pdf There is also an updated version of that article in the 2011 book Governing the Air (MIT Press). Also check out publications by Jorgen Wettestad and co-authors on European air pollution policy. Henrik 2. If you don’t hear from him, you might want to reach out to Rolf Lidskog about this. And, as if you haven’t already thought about it, Henrik Selin. And then there’s the European chair of the TF HTAP: Dr. Frank Dentener European Commission Joint Research Center Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Climate Change Unit via Enrico Fermi 1, I-21020 Ispra TP 209 Italy Phone: +39-033-278-6392 E-mail: [email protected] 3. A good source of information on this is the former Swedish Secretariat on Acid Rain, now Air Polllution and Climate SEcretariat,www.airclim.org, which publishes Acid News regularly. Volkmar Lauber/Salzburg 4. I think there is some info on the EU role (tho perhaps not much) in: Don Munton, Marvin Soroos, Elena Nikitina, and Marc A. Levy “Acid Rain in Europe and North America” in Oran R. Young (ed.) *The Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes: Causal Connections and Behavioral Mechanisms*, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1999, 155-247 . My part of this collaboration was to do the North American side of the story so I personally cannot offer much. Marc Levy also published some articles/chapters on the European LRTAP scene. I do not recall from reading those publications (almost thirty years ago) how much of a role the EU specifically played, but my sense is that it was not much involved, at least not in the formation of the regime. Perhaps the EU, per se, was more involved in the implementation aspects. Thus, perhaps the best your student could do is to contact Marc himself. cheers, Don 5. DG – See these 2 pieces by SV & HS The EU states have tended – though not always – to work hard to coordinate their positions in LRTAP and to use LRTAP to push EU policies on non-eu states. I have more to send, if he/she wants it…. ☺ See also lots of Jurgen Wettestadt air pollution and climate work… 6. Depending on the information your student is looking for, IIASA, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, developed the RAINS model, which played a significant role in the LRPTAP negotiations. Many of the folks who were involved in the model development are still at IIASA (or were as of the last time I participated in a IIASA project). I would suggest reaching out to some of them and checking the publications on LRPTAP negotiation process and the RAINS model. If this direction seems fruitful, I can likely provide contact information or introductions. Best, Cat 7. Hi DG Sophie Perrin and I did a peace on LRTAP ratification, published in European Union Politics a few years ago. Best 8. Here is some older research on the subject: Miranda A. Schreurs, “Transboundary Cooperation to Prevent Acid Rain: Europe, North America and East Asia Compared,” in Shlomi Dinar, ed. *Beyond Resource Wars: Scarcity, Environmental Degradation, and International Cooperation* (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011), pp. 89-115. Miranda A. Schreurs, “The Politics of Acid Rain in Europe,” in Gerald R. Visgilio and Diana M. Whitelaw, *Acid in the Environment: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects* (Springer Science & Media, Inc., 2007), pp. 119-50. Social Learning Group, *Learning in the Management of Global Environmental Risk: A Comparative History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion and Acid Rain, Vol 1. Edited by William C. Clark, Jill Jaeger, Josee van Eijndhoven and Nancy M. Dickson* (Cambridge: MIT Press, June 2001) Best, Miranda -- Stacy D. VanDeveer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
