Interest in these topics has been reinvigorated by the UK’s referendum on EU membership on 23 June 2016. The result will shape the UK’s relationship with the rest of Europe for decades to come, and also significantly affect the operation of the EU.

 

The review explores what the effects might be of a vote either to Remain or Leave the EU.  It explores the risks and opportunities across three main scenarios:-

·         A vote to Remain – in a “reformed” EU

·         A vote to Leave – and become a member of the European Economic Area (EEA) (the “Norwegian option”)

·         A vote to Leave – and negotiate free trade deals with the EU (The ‘Free Trade Option’)

The purpose of this impartial review of the evidence is to explain, not to campaign for either side in the referendum.  By making the findings of existing academic research more widely available, the authors want to help voters make up their own minds.

A short glossy summary of the report can be downloaded from the project website, which also hosts copies of the full report (which runs to 14 chapters and over 60,000 words) and other sources of factual information about EU-UK relations: http://environmenteuref.blogspot.co.uk/

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Professor Andrew J. Jordan

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences

University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK

T: (00) (44) (0)1603 592552;  S: andrew.j.jordan

https://www.uea.ac.uk/environmental-sciences/people/profile/a-jordan

 

Innovations in climate (INOGOV): http://www.inogov.eu/

 

ESRC UK referendum and the environment: http://environmenteuref.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Emergence of polycentric climate governance, Nature Climate Change, 2015

http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2725.html