Environmental Cooperation in Europe: The Political Dimension

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• Title Page v
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments xiii
• Abbreviations and Acronyms xv
• Introduction 1
• Opening Remarks 7
• Part One - The Globalization of Environmental Problems 11
• 1 - Europe and the Atlantic Community in the Context of an Ecological World Order 13
• 2 - The State of the Global Environment: is There a Need for an "Orderly Retreat"? 33
• References 50
• 3 - Global Cooperation for Sustainable Development: Challenges to the North on the Road from Rio 53
• Part Two - Economic and Institutional Capacities for International Environmental Cooperation 69
• 4 - Affluence and Scarceness: the Effect of Economic and Sociocultural Capacities on Environmental Cooperationv 71
• Further Literature 81
• 5 - Economic and Institutional Capacities for Environmental Cooperation (some Remarks on Volker Von Prittwitz) 85
• Part Three - International Negotiating Processes in the Environmental Field and Their Results 89

• Title Page v
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments xiii
• Abbreviations and Acronyms xv
• Introduction 1
• Opening Remarks 7
• Part One - The Globalization of Environmental Problems 11
• 1 - Europe and the Atlantic Community in the Context of an Ecological World Order 13
• 2 - The State of the Global Environment: is There a Need for an "Orderly Retreat"? 33
• References 50
• 3 - Global Cooperation for Sustainable Development: Challenges to the North on the Road from Rio 53
• Part Two - Economic and Institutional Capacities for International Environmental Cooperation 69
• 4 - Affluence and Scarceness: the Effect of Economic and Sociocultural Capacities on Environmental Cooperationv 71
• Further Literature 81
• 5 - Economic and Institutional Capacities for Environmental Cooperation (some Remarks on Volker Von Prittwitz) 85
• Part Three - International Negotiating Processes in the Environmental Field and Their Results 89
• 6 - Specific Characteristics of Environmental Diplomacy 91
• 7 - Critical Attributes of International Environmental Negotiations 103
• 8 - The Role of International Environmental Law 123
• 9 - Comments on the Objective of Regional International Environmental Law 137
• Part Four - Regional Environmental Policies in Europe 143
• 10 - The Environmental Policy of the European Community 145
• 11 - Harmonization of the Ec Environmental Policy After Maastricht 159
• References 175
• 12 - East Central European Policy Making: the Case of the Environment 177
• 13 - The Central European Initiative 203
• 14 - Regional Environmental Policies in Europe: Baltic/Nordic Cooperation 209
• References 221
• 15 - Comments on the Baltic/Nordic Cooperation 223
• Part Five - Domestic Environmental Politics in a Comparative Perspective 229
• 16 - Domestic Environmental Politics in a Comparative Perspective: the Nordic Countries 231
• References 238
• 17 - Drifting Countries: Politics and Environment in East Central Europe 239
• Selected References 246
• 18 - The Political Infrastructure of Environmental Politics in Western and Eastern Europe 247
• 19 - Domestic Environmental Politics in a Comparative Perspective: the Italian Case 271
• About the Contributors 297