The EU’s Environmental Policy Making

Document Type : Original Research

Author
M. Karimi
Asian Cultural Documentation Center, The Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
The world is faced with new threats which have taken complex nature day by day. One of these treats is environmental degradation which is a direct threat to human life and human being. For this reason, the EU and the EU member states have understood the importance of this threat from 1960 onwards and have tried planning of the space, appropriately. This article using descriptive-analytic method tries to investigate the EU experience in the domain of environmental policy making and it believes that this can be useful in optimal environmental policy making in Iran. The research findings show that the EU most important strategies and action plans (in the horizon of 2030) are as follows: biodiversity, chemicals and jungle strategies and circular economy and environmental action plans. Besides, the EU has had action plans to confront with energy, water and food crises which are in relation with environmental issues and threats

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Political Organizing of Space
Volume 3, Issue 3 - Serial Number 11
December 2021
Pages 205-219