Environmental Policy-Making in Britain, Germany and the European Union - The Europeanisation of Air and Water Pollution Control

Informationen zum Autor Rudiger K.W. Wurzel is Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Studies and Senior Lecturer at the University of Hull where he is Director of the Centre of European Union Studies Klappentext Environmental policy has become an increasingly important area of European Union (EU) policy-making and the source of political conflict between Britain and Germany. This book explains why national conflicts have arisen and how they are resolved at EU level by focusing on the Europeanisation of air and water pollution control in particular.Wurzel argues that Anglo-German divergences are best explained in terms of ecological vulnerability, economic cost and capacity, political salience and environmental regulatory styles. Focusing on two very important and media-exploitable issues - car emissions and bathing water regulation - this book challenges the conventional wisdom that Britain has shown a clear preference for environmental quality objectives while Germany championed uniform emission limits. Acceptance of the concept of ecological modernisation plays a vital role in the adoption of more progressive environmental standards. Zusammenfassung This book explains why national conflicts have arisen and how they are resolved at EU level by focusing on the Europeanisation of air and water pollution control. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: British and German environmental policy in Europe1. Environmental pressures and regulatory styles2. Theorising multilevel European Union policy-making 3. The European Union environmental governance systemPart II: Car emission regulation4. The origins of car emission regulation5. The catalytic converter versus the lean-burn engine controversy6. The auto-oil programmesPart III: Bathing water protection7. The origins of bathing water regulation8. Implementation and sewage treatment policies9. The revision process and bathing water scienceConclusion

Product details

• Authors: Rüdiger K W Wurzel, Rudiger K. W. Wurzel, Rüdiger K. W. Wurzel
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2006
• EAN: 9780719073342
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7334-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 220 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Issues in Environmental Politics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europe, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Pollution & threats to the environment, EU (European Union), International institutions, Pollution and threats to the environment, EU & European institutions, Clean water and sanitation