Climate Change Policy in the European Union: Confronting the Dilemmas of Mitigation and Adaptation?

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Foreword Preface List of contributors List of abbreviations Part I. Introduction and Overview: 1. Climate change policy in the European Union: an introduction Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema and Harro van Asselt Part II. The Evolving Governance Context: The European Union: 2. Governing the European Union: policy choices and governance dilemmas Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema, Tim Rayner and Harro van Asselt 3. The evolution of climate policy in the European Union: an historical overview Andrew Jordan and Tim Rayner Part III. Climate Policy in the European Union: Understanding the Past: 4. Burden sharing: distributing burdens or sharing efforts? Constanze Haug and Andrew Jordan 5. Renewable energies: a continuing balancing act? Roger Hildingsson, Johannes Stripple and Andrew Jordan 6. Emissions trading: the enthusiastic adoption of an 'alien' instrument? Harro van Asselt 7. Adapting to a changing climate: an emerging European Union policy? Tim Rayner and Andrew Jordan 8. Adaptation in the water sector: will mainstreaming be sufficient? Eric Massey, Dave Huitema, Andrew Jordan and Tim Rayner 9. The evolution of climate change policy in the European Union: a synthesis Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema, Harro van Asselt and Tim Rayner Part IV. Climate Policy in the European Union: Future Challenges: 10. Exploring the future: the role of scenarios and policy exercises Frans Berkhout, Constanze Haug, Roger Hildingsson, Johannes Stripple and Andrew Jordan 11. Governance choices and dilemmas in a warmer Europe: what does the future hold for the European Union? Johannes Stripple, Tim Rayner, Roger Hildingsson, Andrew Jordan and Constanze Haug Part V. Climate Policy in the European Union: Retrospect and Prospect: 12. Governing climate change in the European Union: understanding the past and preparing for the future Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema, Harro van Asselt, Tim Rayner and Frans Berkhout Index.