Environmental Policy Convergence In Europe

Klappentext This book examines the impact of economic globalization and international institutions on the development of national environmental policies. Zusammenfassung This book analyses the extent to which the environmental policies of nation states have converged over the last thirty years and whether this convergence has led to a strengthening or weakening of environmental standards (a race to the top! or a race to the bottom). Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction Katharina Holzinger, Christoph Knill and Bas Arts; 2. State of the art - conceptualising environmental policy convergence Katharina Holzinger, Helge Jörgens and Christoph Knill; 3. Theoretical framework: causal factors and convergence expectations Katharina Holzinger and Christoph Knill; 4. Research design, variables and data Stephan Heichel, Katharina Holzinger, Thomas Sommerer, Duncan Liefferink, Jessica Pape and Sietske Veenman; 5. Degree and direction of environmental policy convergence: analysis of aggregate data Thomas Sommerer, Christoph Knill and Katharina Holzinger; 6. The pair approach: what causes convergence of environmental policies? Thomas Sommerer, Katharina Holzinger and Christoph Knill; 7. The gap approach: what affects the direction of environmental policy convergence? Bas Arts, Duncan Liefferink, Jelmer Kamstra and Jeroen Ooijevaar; 8. Conclusion Christoph Knill, Katharina Holzinger and Bas Arts.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Katharina Holzinger, Christoph Knill
• Con la collaborazione di: Bas Arts (Editore), Arts Bas (Editore), Katharina Holzinger (Editore), Holzinger Katharina (Editore), Christoph Knill (Editore), Knill Christoph (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.09.2011
• EAN: 9780521717359
• ISBN: 978-0-521-71735-9
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 230 mm x 19 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, The environment, Science / Environmental Science, EU (European Union), International institutions, Central / national / federal government policies, EU & European institutions, Central government policies