The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, 2nd Edition

Globalisation, trade and the environment 10.1 Does free trade result in ‘industrial flight’ to ‘pollution havens’? One of the ma ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY The removal of trade barriers in the post-war era was co-ordinated and pro- moted under the General Agreeme ...

Globalisation, trade and the environment poorly thought through and inappropriate tools for the environmental man- agement inten ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY The WTO is certainly an easy target for environmentalists, both activist and academic. As a symbol of globa ...

Globalisation, trade and the environment precautionary principle. Thus there is a sharp divide between the minority of states wh ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY process, the opportunities provided for environmental NGO participation have not been realised; indeed, Ame ...

Globalisation, trade and the environment 10.2 The European Union: from traditional paradigm to sustainable development? Treaty o ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY legislation. Many of these policies far exceeded ‘any conceivable standards that would be strictly necessar ...

Globalisation, trade and the environment co-operation to resolve transboundary problems such as acid rain. The suc- cess of gree ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY agenda, often working closely with the Commission (Burns 2005 ). The Euro- pean Court of Justice has also c ...

Globalisation, trade and the environment profound criticism of the EU is that itsraison d’ˆetre–economic integration based on cr ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY However, the overall impact of legislation has been to raise environmental standards across the Community – ...

Globalisation, trade and the environment the trade and environment relationship, and Eckersley (2004b)and Young (2005)examinethe ...

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Greening government 11 Contents Integration 293 Integration through organisational reform 293 Integration through administrative ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY Governments’ general response to the speed and scale of global changes has been a reluctance to recognise s ...

Greening government 11.1 Forms of integration Two notions of integration can be distinguished: Theintersectoral approach pursues ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY whilst neatly categorising it as a separate policy area. However, in practice, separation has usually meant ...

Greening government Ireland) and food safety (Iceland, the UK). Even more broadly, Belgium has a Ministry for Social Affairs, Pu ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 11.2 The US Environmental Protection Agency The EPA has responsibility for implementing all or part of thir ...