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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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge Univ. Press
2014
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| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Cover: http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/37823/cover/9781107037823.jpg Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis, Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/756227704.pdf 
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| Author Notes: | ed. by Helge Jörgens ... |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: theoretical framework and research design Duncan Liefferink, Helge Jorgens 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 Jorgens; 9. Complex causation in cross-national environmental policy convergence Andrea Lenschow, Duncan Liefferink and Helge Jorgens.