Environmental Policy in Search of New Instruments

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction: The Globalization of Environmental Policy and the Search for New Instruments

   • Bruno Dente

   Pages 1-20

3. A Classification of Instruments for Environmental Policy

   • P.-J. Klok

   Pages 21-36

4. The Political (Un)feasibility of Environmental Economic Instruments

   • Corinne Larrue

   Pages 37-54

5. Arguments, Assumptions and the Choice of Policy Instruments

   • Angela Liberatore

   Pages 55-71

6. Courts and Citizen Action

   • Nicola Pain

   Pages 73-93

7. Addressing Uncertainty

   • James Cameron, Will Wade-Gery

   Pages 95-142

8. Policy Instruments, Public Deliberation and Evaluation Processes

   • Joan Subirats

   Pages 143-157

9. Mediation as a Policy Instrument for Resolving Environmental Disputes

   • Helmut Weidner

   Pages 159-195

10. New Institutional Arrangements for the Next Generation of Environmental Policy Instruments: Intra- and Interpolicy-Cooperation

    • Peter Knoepfel

    Pages 197-233

11. Back Matter

    Pages 235-235

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Environmental policy is undergoing a dramatic transformation. The problems connected with global change, the need for preventative action, and the growing importance of non-source pollution call for new courses of action and new institutional arrangements. In this situation, it is fairly obvious that both the traditional command and control policy instruments and the more modern financial and economic instruments are increasingly under stress.
This volume deliberately aims to break new ground in providing the conceptual tools necessary for the next generation of environmental policies. In doing so, it covers a wide interdisciplinary range, from public policy analysis to international law, and draws upon much international experience, well reflected by the mixed composition of the contributors. On the basis of a shared theoretical framework, the book explores the potential of new policy instruments, such as policy evaluation or mediation, proposes alternative institutional arrangements for dealing with the issues, classifies existing instruments, and illuminates the process through which old and new tools can be set into operation.

• Institution
• Mediation
• Policy
• Transformation
• development
• environment
• environmental policy
• global change
• pollution

• Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale, Milano, Italy

  Bruno Dente

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