Environmental Governance in Europe: An Ever Closer Ecological Union?

by Albert Weale, Geoffrey Pridham, Michelle Cini, Dimitrios Konstadakopulos, Martin Porter

Overview

Over the last thirty years, the European Union has created a system of environmental governance in Europe. 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, and 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198297086
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/09/2000
Pages:	541
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

University of Essex

both at University of Bristol

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

National University of Ireland

Table of Contents

IntroductionPART 1: ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN THE EUROPEAN UNIONIntroduction to Part IPlan of Part I1. The Single Market and the Environment: From Issue Linkage to Political Choice2. Programmes, Principles and Policies3. Actors and Institutions in Environmental Governance4. Patterns of Governance in the European UnionPART II: COMPARATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN EUROPEIntroduction to Part II5. National Policies on the Environment: Evolution, Principles and Style6. The Institutionalisation of Environmental Policy7. Domestic Politics and Society-Related Variables8. National Systems and Multi-Level Governance: Convergence through Compliance? 9. Convergent and Divergent Trends in European Environmental PolicyComparative TrendsPART III: CASE STUDIES IN THE POLICY PROCESSIntroduction to Part III10. Water Quality and European Environmental Governance11. Pollution Control and Multilevel Governance12. Packaging and Packaging WastePART IV: MODELS OF ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCEIntroduction to Part IV13. Understanding European Environmental Governance14. North and South in the European Union: From Diffusion to Learning? 15. Competing Models of European Environmental GovernanceBibliography