Burns, C.J. orcid.org/0000-0001-9944-0417, Gravey, V., Jordan, A. et al. (1 more author) (2019) De-Europeanising or disengaging? EU environmental policy and Brexit. Environmental Politics, 28 (2). pp. 271-292. ISSN 0964-4016
Abstract
The European Union (EU) has had a profound effect upon its members’ environmental policy. Even in the United Kingdom (UK), the EU’s most recalcitrant member state (historically labeled the ‘Dirty man of Europe’), environmental policy has been Europeanised. As the UK moves to the EU’s exit door it is timely to assess the utility of Europeanisation for understanding policy dynamics in the UK. Drawing upon interviews and extensive engagement with stakeholders, this article analyses the potential impact of Brexit upon environmental policy and politics. The analytical toolkit offered by de-Europeanisation is developed to identify the factors that drive and inhibit de-Europeanisation processes, thereby providing insights that may be applicable in other settings. Disengagement and policy stagnation are presented as more likely environmental outcomes of Brexit, with capacity emerging as a central explanatory variable.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Brexit; capacity; de-Europeanisation; European Union environmental policy; United Kingdom; policy dismantling |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ES/R00028X/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2018 11:31 |
Last Modified: | 30 Jan 2019 15:36 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2019.1549774 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09644016.2019.1549774 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:138037 |