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Environmental Governance in Europe New Edition

Environmental Governance in Europe New Edition

Author: Albert Weale; Geoffrey Pridham; Michelle Cini; Dimitrios Konstadakopulos; Martin Porter; Brendan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199257478
Published In: July 2005
Format: Paperback , 542 pages
Jurisdiction: Europe ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Contemporary and contentious topic
Ground-breaking research
Offers for the first time a complete account of European environmental policy combining both the EU and national dimensions

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.

Readership: Scholars and students of Environmental Politics, EU Studies, Comparative European Politics, Public Policy, Environmental Law, decision makers, and policy analysts.

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
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

Albert Weale, University of Essex, Geoffrey Pridham, University of Bristol, Michelle Cini, University of Bristol, Dimitrios Konstadakopulos, Research Fellow, Martin Porter, VP for Operations Management at Adamson BSMG Worldwide, and Brendan Flynn, National University of Ireland, Galway