Environmental Governance in Europe

An Ever Closer Ecological Union?
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-829708-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 541 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 975 g

Over the last thirty years, the European Union has created a system of environmental governance in Europe. With a large number of legislative measures, the EU's environmental policy is broad in scope, extensive in detail and often stringent in effect. Environmental governance also extends to the ways in which decision making on environmental policy has become institutionalized within Europe, both at the level of the EU itself and in the practices of the member states.

This work seeks to understand this new system of environmental governance both at the European level and at the level of member states. It argues that the system is multi-level, horizontally complex, evolving and incomplete. Locating developments at the European level in theories of European integration, it goes on to examine the extent of convergence and divergence in environmental policy among six member states: Germany, Spain, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK. It then looks at the operation of the system of environmental governance through an examination of policy case studies before examining the wider political significance of these developments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weale, Albert

Weale

Pridham, Geoffrey

Pridham

Cini, Michelle

Konstadakopulos, Dimitrios

Porter, Martin

Flynn, Brendan

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltsoziologie, Umweltpsychologie, Umweltethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- PART 1: ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

- Introduction to Part I

- Plan of Part I

- 1: The Single Market and the Environment: From Issue Linkage to Political Choice

- 2: Programmes, Principles and Policies

- 3: Actors and Institutions in Environmental Governance

- 4: Patterns of Governance in the European Union

- PART II: COMPARATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN EUROPE

- Introduction to Part II

- 5: National Policies on the Environment: Evolution, Principles and Style

- 6: The Institutionalisation of Environmental Policy

- 7: Domestic Politics and Society-Related Variables

- 8: National Systems and Multi-Level Governance: Convergence through Compliance?

- 9: Convergent and Divergent Trends in European Environmental Policy

- Comparative Trends

- PART III: CASE STUDIES IN THE POLICY PROCESS

- Introduction to Part III

- 10: Water Quality and European Environmental Governance

- 11: Pollution Control and Multilevel Governance

- 12: Packaging and Packaging Waste

- PART IV: MODELS OF ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE

- Introduction to Part IV

- 13: Understanding European Environmental Governance

- 14: North and South in the European Union: From Diffusion to Learning?

- 15: Competing Models of European Environmental Governance

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Albert Weale, Professor of Government, University of Essex

Geoffrey Pridham, Centre for Mediterranean Studies, University of Bristol

Michelle Cini, Jean Monnet Lecturer in EC Politics, Department of Politics, University of Bristol

Dimitrios Konstadakopulos, Research Fellow, Centre for European Studies, Lecturer in Managing Business Culture, Europe and European Environmental Policy

Martin Porter, VP for Operations Management at Adamson BSMG Worldwide

Brendan Flynn, Department of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway