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Drawing on an extensive range of political, legal and sociological materials, the author presents and evaluates environmental policy-making in France at a time when environmental problems are growing in complexity and gravity.
He highlights the range of inputs to the policy process - including popular movements, green parties, interest group representation, EU legislation and international treaties - and evaluates the diverse nature of the outcomes which lead him to conclude that because new developments involve not only changes in policy content but also adaptation of policy style, environmental demands are progressively changing the shape of politics itself.
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Acknowledgements
PART I: SHAPING FACTORS: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS Chapter 1. Public Opinion, the Green Movement and Environmental Groups in France
Chapter 2. Green Parties in the French Political System
Chapter 3. The French Polity, Institutional Capacity Building and the Environment
Chapter 4. European Environmental Policy and France
PART II: CASE STUDIES: THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT: CONSERVING NATURE OR PROTECTING SPECIAL INTERESTS Chapter 5. The Industrial Environment: 'Command and Control' or Corporatist Policy Making?
Chapter 6. The Human Environment: Widening the Policy Networks
Chapter 7. Towards Sustainable Development?
Chapter 8. General Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Joseph Szarka is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath.
