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The Effectiveness of European Union Environmental Policy
by Wyn Grant, Peter Newell, Duncan Matthews. 237 pgs.

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Several hundred directives on environmental policy have been produced by the European Union. What impact has the output of this "legislative factory" had? After considering how decisions on environmental policy in the EU are made and the balance of power between business and environmental interests, this book looks in depth at the areas of global warming, water pollution, and air pollution.

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The Effectiveness of European Union Environmental Policy

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Preface

Introduction

1: Making Environmental Policy

2: Business and Environmental Interests

3: Implementation and Enforcement

4: The Eu as an External Actor

5: The Climate Change Policy of the European Union

6: Water Policy

7: Air Pollution

Conclusion

Bibliography

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New Instruments for Environmental Policy in the EU
by Jonathan Golub. 270 pgs.

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Experts from law, political science and economics provide a detailed examination of the debate over new forms of environmental regulation in the European Union, offering recommendations for improving the next generation of policies.

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List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Preface

1: New Instruments for Environmental Policy in the Eu

Part I: New Instruments in the Member States

2: New Environmental Policy Instruments in the Uk

3: New Environmental Policy Instruments in Germany

4: New Environmental Policy Instruments in the Netherlands

5: New Environmental Policy Instruments in Belgium

6: New Environmental Policy Instruments in Spain

7: New Environmental Policy Instruments in Italy

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Part II: New Instruments at the Eu Level

8: Negotiated Agreements in Eu Environmental Policy

9: Ecolabels in Eu Environmental Policy

10: Environmental Management Systems: the European Regulation

11: Environmental Taxes and Charges in the Eu

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Global Competition and EU Environmental Policy
by Jonathan Golub. 224 pgs.

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This is the first book to examine the relationship between economic competitiveness and environmental protection in European Union policy. It contains a wide range of international case studies.

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Illustrations

Preface

1: Global Competition and Eu Environmental Policy

2: Eu Policy for Ozone Layer Protection

3: Regulating Exports of Hazardous Chemicals

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4: Improving Compliance with the International Law of Marine Environmental Protection

5: The Path to Eu Climate Change Policy

6: Eu Environmental Policy and the Gatt/Wto

7: The World Trade Dimension of ‘Greening’ the Eu’s Common Agricultural Policy

8: Competitiveness, Environmental Sustainability and the Future of European Union Development Cooperation

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Policy-Making in the European Union (Chap. 11 "Environmental Policy, Economic Constraints, and External Pressures")
by Helen Wallace, William Wallace. 648 pgs.

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This is a fully-revised edition of a well-established text for students. It offers an invaluable and up-to-date interpretation of the European policy process. A team of internationally-renowned authors present fourteen case studies--ranging from analyses of the CAP and environmental policy, to the politics of Economic and Monetary Union and the new World Trade Organization. This work provides a timely and provocative insight into European integration in a period of critical change.

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Praise for the Third Edition

Outline Contents

Detailed Contents

Preface

Appendices

Figures

Boxes

Tables

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Editors' Note

Part I: Institutions, Process, and Analytelcal Approaches

Chapter 1: The Institutional Setting Five Variations on a Theme

Further Reading

Chapter 2: The Policy Process a Moving Pendulum

Further Reading

Chapter 3: Analysing and Explaining Policies

Further Reading

Part II: Policies

Chapter 4: The Single Market a New Approach to Policy

Further Reading

Notes

Chapter 5: Competition Policy the Limits of the European Regulatory State

Notes

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Chapter 6: Economic and Monetary Union Poltical Coviction and Economic Uncertainty

Notes

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Chapter 7: The Common Agricultural Policy Politics against Markets

Notes

Further Reading

Chapter 8: The Budget Who Gets What, When, and How

Notes

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Chapter 9: Cohesion and the Structural Funds Transfers and Trade-Offs

Notes

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Chapter 10: Social Policy Left to Courts and Markets?

Appendix 10.1: The Development of Cases before the European Court of Justice, 1992-1998

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Chapter 11: Environmental Policy Economic Constraints and External Pressures

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Chapter 12: Biotechnology Policy Regulating Risks and Risking Regulation

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Chapter 13: The Common Fisheries Policy Letting the Little Ones Go?

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Chapter 14: European Trade Policy Global Pressures and Domestic Constraints

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Chapter 15: Trade with Developing Countries Banana Skins and Turf Wars

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Chapter 16: Eastern Enlargement Strategy or Second Thoughts?

Appendix 16.1: Overview of Relations between the Ceecs and the Eu and Nato

Notes

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Chapter 17: Common Foreign and Security Policy from Shadow to Substance?

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Chapter 18: Justice and Home Affairs Integration through Incrementalism?

Notes

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Part III: Conclusions

Chapter 19: Collective Governance the Eu Political Process

Notes

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The European Union and Its Citizens: The Social Agenda (Chap. 6 "Environmental Concerns and European Union")
by Beverly Springer. 186 pgs.

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This work examines the European Union as mandated by the Maastricht Treaty.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Political Science

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

References

Chapter 1: Europe in the 1990s: the Crisis of Uncertainties

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Chapter 2: Conceptualizing European Integration

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Chapter 3: Understanding the Treaty on European Union

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Chapter 4: The Cultural Basis of European Union

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Chapter 5: Employees and European Union

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Chapter 6: Environmental Concerns and European Union

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Chapter 7: Regional Policy and European Union

Conclusion

Chapter 8: Citizenship and European Union

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Chapter 9: Conclusion

References

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Environmental Cooperation in Europe: The Political Dimension
by Otmar Holl. 299 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction

Opening Remarks

Part One: The Globalization of Environmental Problems

1: Europe and the Atlantic Community in the Context of an Ecological World Order

2: The State of the Global Environment: is There a Need for an "Orderly Retreat"?

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3: Global Cooperation for Sustainable Development: Challenges to the North on the Road from Rio

Part Two: Economic and Institutional Capacities for International Environmental Cooperation

4: Affluence and Scarceness: the Effect of Economic and Sociocultural Capacities on Environmental Cooperationv

Further Literature

5: Economic and Institutional Capacities for Environmental Cooperation (some Remarks on Volker Von Prittwitz)

Part Three: International Negotiating Processes in the Environmental Field and Their Results

6: Specific Characteristics of Environmental Diplomacy

7: Critical Attributes of International Environmental Negotiations

8: The Role of International Environmental Law

9: Comments on the Objective of Regional International Environmental Law

Part Four: Regional Environmental Policies in Europe

10: The Environmental Policy of the European Community

11: Harmonization of the Ec Environmental Policy After Maastricht

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12: East Central European Policy Making: the Case of the Environment

13: The Central European Initiative

14: Regional Environmental Policies in Europe: Baltic/Nordic Cooperation

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15: Comments on the Baltic/Nordic Cooperation

Part Five: Domestic Environmental Politics in a Comparative Perspective

16: Domestic Environmental Politics in a Comparative Perspective: the Nordic Countries

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17: Drifting Countries: Politics and Environment in East Central Europe

Selected References

18: The Political Infrastructure of Environmental Politics in Western and Eastern Europe

19: Domestic Environmental Politics in a Comparative Perspective: the Italian Case

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International Organizations and Environmental Policy (Chap. 3 "Environmental Policy and the European Union" and Chap. 4 "Policymaking in International Organizations: The European Union and Ozone Protection")
by Robert V. Bartlett, Priya A. Kurian, Madhu Malik. 284 pgs.

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This volume from the Policy Studies Organization provides critical, theoretical, and empirical perspectives on international organizations, the policy implications of these organizations, and the possible roles such agencies can play in international environmental policy. With contributions from a wide range of scholars, the work takes up such topical issues as the Rio Agenda of 1992 and its implementation; the role the European Union might play in environmental policy; the place of environmentalism in the development strategies and tactics of organizations such as the World Bank; and the development of international environmental law.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Political Science

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Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Acronyms

1: International Environmental Policy: Redesigning the Agenda for Theory and Practice?

Notes

2: Necessity for Organizational Change: Implementing the Rio Agenda of 1992

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3: Environmental Policy and the European Union

Conclusions

Notes

4: Policymaking in International Organizations: The European Union and Ozone Protection

5: The World Meteorological Organization as a Purveyor of Global Public Goods

Conclusions

6: Environmental Learning at the World Bank

Conclusion

Notes

7: The U.S. Congress and the World Bank: Impact of News Media on International Environmental Policy

Conclusions

APPENDIX

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Findings and Conclusions

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9: International Regimes and Environmental Policy: An Evaluation of the Role of International Law

Notes

10: International Organizations, Environmental Cooperation, and Regime Theory

Conclusion

Notes

11: UNEP and the Montreal Protocol

Conclusion

12: Iterative Functionalism and Climate Management Organizations: From Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee

Notes

13: Forum Shopping: Issue Linkages in the Genetic Resources Issue

Conclusion

Notes

14: Do We Need a New Theory of International Organizations?

Bibliography

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Policy Studies Organization publications Issued with Greenwood Press/Quorum Books
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Scientific Uncertainty and Learning in European Union Environmental Policymaking, in Policy Studies Journal
by M. Leann Brown. 21 pgs.

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Pollution Abatement Strategies in Central and Eastern Europe
by Michael A. Toman. 90 pgs.

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RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE

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Foreword

Preface

Motor Vehicles and Pollution in Central and Eastern Europe

Assessing the Health Benefits of Improved Air Quality in Central and Eastern Europe

Using Economic Incentives to Reduce Air Pollution Emissions in Central and Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland

Cost-Effective Control of Water Pollution in Central and Eastern Europe

Tradable Sulfur Dioxide Emission Permits and European Economic Integration

The Allocation of Environmental Liabilities in Central and Eastern Europe

Environmental Policies, Economic Restructuring, and Institutional Development in the Former Soviet Union

Economic Restructuring and the Environment: Exploiting Win-Win Opportunities
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Environmental Security and Quality after Communism: Eastern Europe and the Soviet Successor States
by Joan DeBardeleben, John Hannigan. 188 pgs.

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Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Notes

PART ONE: The Environment as a Security Problem in the Post-Communist World

1: Environmental Security After Communism: The Debate Leigh Sarty

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2: Military Activity and Environmental Security: The Case of Radioactivity in the Arctic

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3: Environmental Degradation and Regional Instability in Central Europe

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PART TWO: The Environment and the Energy Sector

4: The Post-Soviet Nuclear Power Program

Notes

5: Energy and the Environment in Eastern Europe

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PART THREE: National and Regional Dimensions of Environmental Quality

6: Building Bureaucratic Capacity in Russia: Federal and Regional Responses to the Post-Soviet Environmental Challenge

Notes

7: Citizen Participation and the Environment in Russia

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8: Central Asia: How to Pick Up the Pieces?

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9: The Environmental Impact of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea Region

Notes

Glossary of Acronyms and Terms

About the Contributors

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Expertise and International Governance: Eastern Europe and the Adoption of European Union Environmental Legislation, in Global Governance
by Liliana Botcheva. 18 pgs.

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