Andrew Jordan is Professor of Environmental Policy in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Viviane Gravey is Lecturer in European Politics in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's University Belfast, UK.

1. EU Environmental Policy: Contexts, Actors and Policy Dynamics PART 1: Contexts 2. The establishment of EU environmental policy 3. External EU environmental policy 4. Studying EU environmental policy PART 2: Actors 5. The Council, European Council and Member States 6. The European Commission 7. The Court of Justice of the European Union 8. The European Parliament 9. Interest Groups PART 3: Policy dynamics 10. Agenda setting 11. Policy making 12. Policy integration 13. Policy implementation 14. Policy evaluation 15. The EU in international environmental negotiations PART 4: New challenges 16. Is the EU still committed to developing more sustainably? 17. Governing with multiple policy instruments? 18. Making EU environmental policy more legitimate? 19. New policy dynamics in more uncertain times? PART 5: Conclusion 20. EU environmental policy at 50: retrospect and prospect