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Environmental policy is undergoing a dramatic transformation. The problems connected with global change, the need for preventative action, and the growing importance of non-source pollution call for new courses of action and new institutional arrangements. In this situation, it is fairly obvious that both the traditional command and control policy instruments and the more modern financial and economic instruments are increasingly under stress.
This volume deliberately aims to break new ground in providing the conceptual tools necessary for the next generation of environmental policies. In doing so, it covers a wide interdisciplinary range, from public policy analysis to international law, and draws upon much international experience, well reflected by the mixed composition of the contributors. On the basis of a shared theoretical framework, the book explores the potential of new policy instruments, such as policy evaluation or mediation, proposes alternative institutional arrangements for dealing with the issues, classifies existing instruments, and illuminates the process through which old and new tools can be set into operation.
List of contents
1. Introduction: The Globalization of Environmental Policy and the Search for New Instruments.- 2. A Classification of Instruments for Environmental Policy.- 3. The Political (Un)feasibility of Environmenal Economic Instruments.- 4. Arguments, Assumptions and the Choice of Policy Instruments. The Case of the Debate on the CO2/Energy Tax in the European. Community.- 5. Courts and Citizen Action.- 6. Addressing Uncertainty. Law, Policy and the Development of the Precautionary Principle.- 7. Policy Instruments, Public Deliberation and Evaluation Processes.- 8. Mediation as a Policy Instrument for Resolving Environmental Disputes. With Special Reference to Germany.- 9. New Institutional Arrangements for a New Generation of Environmental Policy Instruments: Intra- and Interpolicy-Cooperation.
Summary
On the basis of a shared theoretical framework, the book explores the potential of new policy instruments, such as policy evaluation or mediation, proposes alternative institutional arrangements for dealing with the issues, classifies existing instruments, and illuminates the process through which old and new tools can be set into operation.
