Today the environment seems omnipresent in European policy within and beyond the European
Union. The idea of a shared European environment however has come a long way and is still
being contested. Greening Europe focuses on the many ways people have interacted with nature
and made it an issue of European concern. The authors ask how notions of Europe mattered in
these activities and they expose the many entanglements of activists across the subcontinent
who set out to connect and network and to exchange knowledge worldviews and strategies that
exceeded their national horizons. Moving beyond human agency the handbook also highlights the
eminent role nature played in both greening Europe and making Europe a shared environment.
