Saving Migrants: A Transnational Network Supporting Supranational Bird Protection Policy

Meyer, Jan-Henrik

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“…Hence, the Community protected birds in a far-reaching 1979 directive, since they were a migratory species that crossed borders. 21 In 1976, after the Seveso disastera dioxin leak that affected tens of thousands of Italians -Henk Vredeling, the European Commissioner for Social Affairs, prioritised the adoption of a directive on security in chemical plants despite reservations by many member-states about the cost of such measures. 22 The 'Seveso' directive was finally adopted in 1982, and was upgraded regularly thereafter.…”

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A Flanking European Welfare State: The European Community's Social Dimension, from Brandt to Delors (1969–1993)

Warlouzet¹

2022

Contemporary European History

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Between 1969 and 1993, a genuine ‘European welfare state’ was forged at the level of the European Economic Community (EEC), even though this expression was not used per se. After a definition of the welfare state as a three-pronged set of policies, the article develops first the flourishing period in the 1970s, when many ambitious ideas such as a common reduction of working hours, or the control of multinationals, emerged. In a second step, it explains the failure of this project due to the neoliberal backlash of the early 1980s and the division of the welfarist coalition. Ultimately, the whole project was rekindled as a flanking wing of the internal market programme when the latter was launched in 1985. Hence, when the internal market opened up in 1993, a very unique kind of European welfare existed at the international level. It was less redistributive than that of national welfare states and more geared towards the management of common norms.

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A Flanking European Welfare State: The European Community's Social Dimension, from Brandt to Delors (1969–1993)

Warlouzet¹

2022

Contemporary European History

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“…Yet works in this tradition have usually sought to explain particular policy outcomes without integrating these into the wider context of science and conservation discourses (e.g. Meyer, 2010;Meyer et al, 1997). By drawing on literature from the history of science and scientific institutions, linking ecological philosophies and the particular politics of international conservation, this paper adds another dimension to this first body of existing literature.…”

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Conservation Compromises: The MAB and the Legacy of the International Biological Program, 1964–1974

Schleper

2016

J Hist Biol

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Abstract. This article looks at the International Biological Program (IBP) as the predecessor of UNESCO's well-known and highly successful Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB). It argues that international conservation efforts of the 1970s, such as the MAB, must in fact be understood as a compound of two opposing attempts to reform international conservation in the 1960s. The scientific framework of the MAB has its origins in disputes between high-level conservationists affiliated with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) about what the IBP meant for the future of conservation. Their respective visions entailed different ecological philosophies as much as diverging sets of political ideologies regarding the global implementation of conservation. Within the IBP's Conservation Section, one group propagated a universal systems approach to conservation with a centralized, technocratic management of nature and society by an elite group of independent scientific experts. Within IUCN, a second group based their notion of environmental expert roles on a more descriptive and local ecology of resource mapping as practiced by UNESCO. When the IBP came to an end in 1974, both groups' ecological philosophies played into the scientific framework underlying the MAB's World Network or Biosphere Reserves. The article argues that it is impossible to understand the course of conservation within the MAB without studying the dynamics and discourses between the two underlying expert groups and their respective visions for reforming conservation.

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Salm¹

2016

Transnational Socialist Networks in the 1970s

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Saving Migrants: A Transnational Network Supporting Supranational Bird Protection Policy

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A Flanking European Welfare State: The European Community's Social Dimension, from Brandt to Delors (1969–1993)

A Flanking European Welfare State: The European Community's Social Dimension, from Brandt to Delors (1969–1993)

Conservation Compromises: The MAB and the Legacy of the International Biological Program, 1964–1974

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