Environmental Policy in the EU

Environmental Policy in the EU
Author: Andrew Jordan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2013
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1849714681

This text brings together work on EU environmental policy. Incorporating a range of case studies, it explores the links between levels of governance and the environment in a number of policy areas.

Environmental Management in European Companies

Environmental Management in European Companies
Author: Jobst Conrad
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0203305450

Over the past decade, the greening of industry has become both an issue in scientific and political debate and a generic substantive development in industry itself. This study is the product of an international collaborative research project investigating exemplary cases of successful environmental management in European companies in Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, and Latvia with the aim of discovering the reasons and dynamics underlying them and the role environmental policy did and could play. Providing the background and context of the research project, the nine case studies concern various companies of different sizes and from different industrial branches and describe the social processes leading to substantive environmental achievements and corresponding environmental management systems. This study also evaluates the success stories in a comparative empirical, as well as theoretical, perspective with an environmental policy orientation. Case studies examine the role of a company's internal and external determinants, explaining successful corporate environmental management on the micro-level.

Product Policy in Europe: New Environmental Perspectives

Product Policy in Europe: New Environmental Perspectives
Author: F. Oosterhuis
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9400902778

Product Policy in Europe: New Environmental Perspectives presents an overview and assessment of a relatively new area of environmental policy in Europe. Whereas the more `traditional' environment policy mainly deals with individual emissions, waste and substances, product policy is a more comprehensive approach addressing the environmental impacts of products during their whole life cycle. The study reviews the current state of affairs and the prospects for product policy in the EU and Switzerland. It shows the relationship with other areas of environmental policy and the potential role of new instruments and approaches. Four case studies (on paint, batteries, public procurement and eco-labelling) illustrate the barriers and opportunities of product policy. Environmental policy makers and policy analysts will find useful information and recommendations in this book. It is also written for those who have a professional interest in reducing the environmental impact of products, including marketing managers, product developers, procurement officers and staff members of environmental and consumer organisations, standardisation and certification institutions, etc.

A Guide to Local Environmental Auditing

A Guide to Local Environmental Auditing
Author: Hugh Barton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134167741

Sustainable development is still seen by authorities as an abstract concept. Local Environmental Auditing will help put it into practice. The book provides a comprehensive guide to monitoring the state of the local environment and establishing the impacts of local actions on global issues, and shows how current local authority policy and practice can be adapted to recognize environmental priorities. The authors provide both a guide to and an assessment of the subject: they link the processes with the issues, with specific information on carrying out the audit (including checklists, case studies and standards) and a detailed discussion of the issues and choices which local authorities may face. Clearly structured and accessible, this will be an essential handbook, both for local government departments and other local organizations, and students in a wide range of subjects, including environmental science and health, town planning, urban and rural studies, social science and politics.

Energy and Environment: Multiregulation in Europe

Energy and Environment: Multiregulation in Europe
Author: Piotr Jasinski
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351726994

This title was first published in 2000. Using the latest surveys and original data, this volume contrasts energy and environmental policies in Western and Eastern Europe. In doing so, it provides an overview of European environmental regulation as a whole and suggests how best developments in the mature market economies of the West may be adapted for the transition economies of the East.

New Instruments for Environmental Policy in the EU

New Instruments for Environmental Policy in the EU
Author: Jonathan Golub
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1998-06-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 113472957X

New Instruments for Environmental Policy in the EU provides a comprehensive analysis of the debate over new forms of environmental regulation in the European Union.The conclusions draw attention to critical aspects of instrument design, as well as the difficulty of accommodating national policy diversity without contravening EU and international tr

The European Environmental Conscience in EU Politics

The European Environmental Conscience in EU Politics
Author: Thomas Hoerber
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2021-12-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000509265

Based on empirical studies of European energy and environmental policies, this book suggests that, in combination, these two policy fields form a consensus in the EU which might also become the basis for a new European ideology, namely European ‘sustainabilism’. It asks why an environmental conscience has grown since the late 1960s in the industrialised world and shows that whilst there is undeniable environmental degradation during this time, and that a European environmental conscience has mainly developed through successive steps of European integration in energy policy. In this connection between energy and the environmental we find one driver for European integration and indeed European identity. If sustainabilism should become a European ideology, it will substantially influence the way future Europeans will live. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Studies, International Relations, Political Science, History, Economics, Sustainability Studies, Environmental and Energy Policies in Europe.

Governance and Environment in Western Europe

Governance and Environment in Western Europe
Author: Kenneth Hanf
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2014-07-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317879171

Governance and Environment in Western Europe: Politics, Policy and Administration, provides an up-to-date overview of developments in this area focusing on a selection of ten countries in Western Europe and the European Union. The countries examined are: Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The range of countries covered - representing as they do different stages of development in environmental policy, different state and institutional traditions - provides an interesting comparative analysis of how different countries confronting similar problems of environmental management have responded politically and (re)organised their administrative systems for implementing these policies.

Planning for Sustainability

Planning for Sustainability
Author: Stephen M. Wheeler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136482016

How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the threat of global warming increases. Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded and accessible introduction to the concept of planning for more sustainable and livable communities. The text explores topics such as how more compact and walkable cities and towns might be created, how local ecosystems can be restored, how social inequalities might be reduced, how greenhouse gas emissions might be lowered, and how more sustainable forms of economic development can be brought about. The second edition has been extensively revised and updated throughout, including an improved structure with chapters now organized under three sections: the nature of sustainable planning, issues central to sustainable planning, and scales of sustainable planning. New material includes greater discussion of climate change, urban food systems, the relationships between public health and the urban environment, and international development. Building on past schools of planning theory, Planning for Sustainability lays out a sustainability planning framework that pays special attention to the rapidly evolving institutions and power structures of a globalizing world. By considering in turn each scale of planning—international, national, regional, municipal, neighborhood, and site and building—the book illustrates how sustainability initiatives at different levels can interrelate. Only by weaving together planning initiatives and institutions at different scales, and by integrating efforts across disciplines, can we move towards long-term human and ecological well-being.