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Understanding environmental policy convergence : the power of words, rules and money /

"Over recent decades national environmental policies have become increasingly alike. This book analyses the driving forces of this process of policy convergence, providing an in-depth empirical analysis of the international forces at work. It does so by investigating how four countries - France...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jörgens, Helge, 1967-, Lenschow, Andrea, Liefferink, Duncan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: theoretical framework and research design / Duncan Liefferink, Helge Jörgens and Andrea Lenschow
  • 2. Is there convergence of national environmental policies? An analysis of policy outputs in 24 OECD countries / Katharina Holzinger, Christoph Knill and Thomas Sommerer
  • 3. Regulation of industrial discharges into surface water / Stephan Heichel, Jessica Pape and Jale Tosun
  • 4. Taming the 'tiger in the tank': explaining the convergence of limit values for lead in petrol / Per-Olof Busch
  • 5. Cross-national convergence of traffic noise policies / Dieter Pesendorfer
  • 6. National policies for cleaning up contaminated sites / Sietske Veenman
  • 7. Converging ideas about risk regulation? The precautionary principle in national legal systems / Dieter Pesendorfer
  • 8. From the outside in: explaining convergence in the legal recognition of the sustainability principle / Per-Olof Busch and Helge Jörgens
  • 9. Complex causation in cross-national environmental policy convergence / Andrea Lenschow, Duncan Liefferink and Helge Jörgens.