Implementing European Environmental Policy: The Impacts of Directives in the Member States - Couverture rigide

 
9781840646597: Implementing European Environmental Policy: The Impacts of Directives in the Member States
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1840646594 ISBN 13 : 9781840646597
Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

This significant book investigates the political economy of environmental policy in Europe with a careful analysis of how EU directives are realised in the member states.

The authors explore this issue through a comparative evaluation of the implementation of three pieces of EU environmental legislation in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. Areas covered by the legislation include air emission standards for waste incinerators, the electricity supply industry, and the certification of environmental management systems. The results vary across cases even though overcompliance is observed in certain cases. The regularity arising from the different case studies is related to the determinants of the environmental outcomes that are observed. When environmental directives are implemented they are likely to interact with parallel policy processes and these interactions can exert a strong positive or negative influence on the success of the policy in question. The central policy problem is the fact that these interactions are very difficult to anticipate at the policy formulation stage. It leads the authors to propose that effective environmental policy should therefore be adaptable in order to cope with these unanticipated effects.

This book covers a very important and topical issue by studying the genuine impact of environmental directives and increasing the readers' understanding of the way in which environmental federalism works in Europe. It will be welcomed by scholars of environmental law and political science, environmental economists, and environmental policymakers, advisors and consultants.

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À propos de l?auteur

Edited by Matthieu Glachant, CERNA, MINES ParisTech, France

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Éditeur
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1840646594
ISBN 13 
9781840646597
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
Éditeur
Glachant Matthieu
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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