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A Tale of Three (Port) Cities: An Assessment on the Sociopolitical Factors that contribute to Air Pollution in Southern Mediterranean Coasts
Canepa Sobrino, Lucía
Canepa Sobrino, Lucía
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This thesis will analyze the sociopolitical background of Southern European states surrounding the Mediterranean in order to understand the political and institutional shifts that have caused an impact on the air quality of these particular regions. By examining the consequences of human interaction in the environment, in respects to the greatest contributing economic sectors to the worsening air quality conditions in specific regions of Southern Spain, Italy and Greece, the research will provide an interpretation on the effects of multilateral legislation on the domestic policies of such. The research will be corroborated through the scrutinized view on the chronology of international political events that have led the energy industries and maritime trade become one of the leading unregulated atmospheric pollutant sources. Due to the given states’ geopolitical vicinity, their shared legislations established by the supranational powers of the European Union will provide this research with a comparison on how these policies have been enforced in their respective Southern regions. In addition, environmental law and legislation can also be seen through an even smaller lens; this thesis will include an in-depth examination of the reliability on multilateralism and its effects on regionally enforced regulations relating to the emissions of air pollutants.
This environmental policy report will uphold the central premise of social domestic affairs hindering the conservation of air quality in the vulnerable coastal regions of the Mediterranean for the sake of embracing capitalist agenda. Therefore, all three countries have enabled a social indifference towards environmental policies. Based on the aforementioned comparisons between state and international environmental legislations, this thesis will be able to demonstrate the
hypothesis, which justifies how sovereign countries that have endured comparable economic recessions in the modern era, have left behind any moral concept regarding the preservation of the environment, adhering to treaties and endorsing corporations directly related to non-renewable energy production and trade, large emitters of extremely prejudicial polluting gases.
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Thesis (B.A. in Political Science, Minor in Philosophy)--John Cabot University, Spring 2021.
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2021
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Air pollution, Law and legislation, Air quality management
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Canepa Sobrino, Lucía. "A Tale of Three (Port) Cities: An Assessment on the Sociopolitical Factors that contribute to Air Pollution in Southern Mediterranean Coasts". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2021.