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ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN EUROPE
AN EVER CLOSER ECOLOGICAL UNION? |
| By: |
Albert Weale, Geoffrey Pridham, Michelle Cini |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198297084 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198297086 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 August, 2000 |
| Pages: |
541 |
| Description: |
From acid rain to clean drinking water, from clean beaches to packaging waste, the operation of the environmental rules in the European Union affects all our lives. This book examines how rules for environmental protection are made in Europe. It identifies the forces that shape how rules are made and why they take the form they do. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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