Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic Perspective

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic and Multidisciplinary Perspective

   1. Introduction: Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic and Multidisciplinary Perspective

      • Manuela Achilles, Dana Elzey

      Pages 1-10

3. Broader Contexts of Sustainable Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Putting a Price on the Plant: Economic Valuation of Nature’s Services

      • Mark White

      Pages 13-27

   3. International Trade and the Environment: Does Globalization Create Havens of Pollution?

      • Peter Debaere

      Pages 28-45

   4. New Directions in Green City Building

      • Timothy Beatley

      Pages 46-66

4. Germany’s Energy Revolution

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. The German Green Party: From a Broad Social Movement to a Volkspartei

      • Arne Jungjohann

      Pages 69-90

   3. Germany’s Ecological Tax Reform: A Retrospective

      • Michael Mehling

      Pages 91-103

   4. ‘Nuclear Power? No, Thank You!’: Germany’s Energy Revolution Post-Fukushima

      • Manuela Achilles

      Pages 104-127

   5. Ambitions and Realities of the German Energy Revolution

      • Brian Marrs

      Pages 128-153

5. Transatlantic Cooperation at the Macro and Micro Levels

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. The Transatlantic Climate Bridge: Challenges and Opportunities

      • Anja Kueppers-McKinnon, Georg Maue, Carmen Krista

      Pages 157-170

   3. Formalizing the Transfer and Application of Environmental Policies and Lessons from Germany to the United States: The Case of Northern Virginia

      • Dale Medearis

      Pages 171-184

   4. Cultivating the Cross-Cultural Engineer: Key Insights

      • Dana Elzey, Kerstin Steitz

      Pages 185-200

   5. Designing for the Anthropocene: The Duisburg Rhine Park

      • Jörg Sieweke

      Pages 201-212

   6. Eco-Revelatory Design: An Approach You Can Bank On

      • Eugene Ryang

      Pages 213-220

   7. Conclusion and Outlook

      • Manuela Achilles, Dana Elzey

      Pages 221-228

6. Back Matter

   Pages 229-237

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Experts from business, academia, governmental agencies and non-profit think tanks to form a transnational and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the combined challenges of environmental sustainability and energy security in the United States and Germany.

• climate
• environment
• globalization
• Government
• pollution
• revolution
• sustainability
• sustainable development
• Environmental Geography

• Centre for German Studies, University of Virginia, USA

  Manuela Achilles

• University of Virginia, USA

  Dana Elzey

Manuela Achilles, University of Virginia, USA Timothy Beatley, University of Virginia, USA Peter Debaere, University of Virginia, USA Dana Elzey, University of Virginia, USA Arne Jungjohann, State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, Germany Carmen Kristan, German Embassy, Washington DC, USA Anja Kueppers-McKinnon, German Embassy, Washington DC, USA Georg Maue, German Embassy, Washington DC, USA Brian Marrs, Yale University, USA Dale Medearis, Northern Virginia Regional Commission, USA Michael Mehling, Ecologic Institute,Washington DC, USA Jorg Sieweke, University of Virginia, USA Kerstin Steitz, University of Virginia, USA Mark White, University of Virginia, USA Eugene Ryang, Waterstreet Studio, Virginia, USA

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