Environmental Governance in Europe An Ever Closer Ecological Union [Hardcover]

Over the last thirty years, the European Union has created a system of environmental governance in Europe. 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, and 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.

Introduction
PART 1: ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
Introduction to Part I
Plan of Part I
1. The Single Market and the Environment: From Issue Linkage to Political Choice
2. Programmes, Principles and Policies
3. Actors and Institutions in Environmental Governance
4. Patterns of Governance in the European Union
PART II: COMPARATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN EUROPE
Introduction to Part II
5. National Policies on the Environment: Evolution, Principles and Style
6. The Institutionalisation of Environmental Policy
7. Domestic Politics and Society-Related Variables
8. National Systems and Multi-Level Governance: Convergence through Compliance?
9. Convergent and Divergent Trends in European Environmental Policy
Comparative Trends
PART III: CASE STUDIES IN THE POLICY PROCESS
Introduction to Part III
10. Water Quality and European Environmental Governance
11. Pollution Control and Multilevel Governance
12. Packaging and Packaging Waste
PART IV: MODELS OF ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE
Introduction to Part IV
13. Understanding European Environmental Governance
14. North and South in the European Union: From Diffusion to Learning?
15. Competing Models of European Environmental Governance
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