Litigating for the Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-14

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2. Introduction

   • Reinhard Slepcevic

   Pages 15-19

3. The Interest in the Judicial Enforcement of EU Law

   • Reinhard Slepcevic

   Pages 21-30

4. Theoretical Approach

   • Reinhard Slepcevic

   Pages 31-47

5. Methodological Approach

   • Reinhard Slepcevic

   Pages 49-57

6. The Natura 2000 Directives

   • Reinhard Slepcevic

   Pages 59-70

7. France

   • Reinhard Slepcevic

   Pages 71-132

8. Germany

   • Reinhard Slepcevic

   Pages 133-174

9. The Netherlands

   • Reinhard Slepcevic

   Pages 175-220

10. Conclusion

    • Reinhard Slepcevic

    Pages 221-232

11. Back Matter

    Pages 233-244

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This book is the result of doctoral studies that I started in October 2004. At the outset, I only knew that I wanted to work on interest groups and litigation in the context of the European Union. At that time, I would not have believed that I would find myself some time later touring half Western Europe to interview environmental organisations, nor that I would read French, German and Dutch court rulings on the protection of endangered species whose names were completely unknown to me. Yet I never regretted my choice of topic, and hopefully the following chapters will convince the reader that it is indeed a topic that merits our attention. I would not have been able to cope with all the pitfalls of a long research project without the strong and enduring support of my friends and colleagues. Both personally and academically, I have profited enormously from my three years as a doctoral student at the department of political science at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Institut für Höhere Studien) in Vienna, Austria. I am very much indebted to Gerda Falkner, Oliver Treib, Sylvia Kritzinger and Irina Michalowitz for organising such a great programme which allowed me and my colleagues to engage in intensive discussions with outstanding academic scholars such as Alec Stone-Sweet, Paul Pierson, James Caporaso, Frank Schimmelfennig, Klaus Goetz, Andrea Lenschow, Katharina Holzinger and Hellen Wallace.

• Deutschland
• Europe
• Frankreich
• Gerichtliche Rechtsreduzierung
• Natura 2000
• Niederlande
• Political Science
• Umweltrecht, europäisches
• environment

Dr. Reinhard Slepcevic completed his doctoral thesis at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna. He subsequently held a position as a researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In September 2008, he became a Max Weber Fellow at the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

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