Environmental Governance in Europe: An Ever Closer Ecological Union?
Albert Weale, Geoffrey Pridham, Michelle Cini, Dimitrios Konstadakopulos, Martin Porter, and Brendan Flynn
Abstract
Over the last thirty years, the European Union (EU) 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 institutionalised within Europe, both at the level of the EU itself and in the practices of the member states. This book seeks to understand this new system of environmental governance both at the European level and at the level of ... More
Over the last thirty years, the European Union (EU) 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 institutionalised within Europe, both at the level of the EU itself and in the practices of the member states. This book 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 United Kingdom. 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.
Keywords:
European Union,
environment,
environmental policy,
member states,
European integration,
case studies
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2002 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199257478 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199257478.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Albert Weale, author
University of Essex
Geoffrey Pridham, author
University of Bristol
Michelle Cini, author
University of Bristol
Dimitrios Konstadakopulos, author
Research Fellow
Martin Porter, author
VP for Operations Management at Adamson BSMG Worldwide
Brendan Flynn, author
National University of Ireland, Galway
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