National Environmental Policies

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. The Political System’s Capacity for Environmental Policy

   • Martin Jänicke

   Pages 1-24

3. United States

   • Richard N. L. Andrews

   Pages 25-43

4. Sweden

   • Lennart J. Lundqvist

   Pages 45-71

5. Japan

   • Hidefumi Imura

   Pages 73-88

6. Great Britain

   • Albert Weale

   Pages 89-108

7. The Netherlands

   • Hans Th. A. Bressers, Loret A. Plettenburg

   Pages 109-131

8. Germany

   • Martin Jänicke, Helmut Weidner

   Pages 133-155

9. Denmark

   • Mikael Skou Andersen

   Pages 157-174

10. Switzerland

    • Peter Knoepfel

    Pages 175-197

11. Korea

    • Young-Suck Nam

    Pages 199-212

12. Chile

    • Eduardo Silva

    Pages 213-235

13. China

    • Yu-shi Mao

    Pages 237-255

14. Nigeria

    • Fatai Kayode Salau

    Pages 257-278

15. Russia

    • Ivan Potravnyi, Ulrich Weißenburger

    Pages 279-297

16. Summary: Global Environmental Policy Learning

    • Martin Janicke, Helmut Weidner

    Pages 299-313

17. Back Matter

    Pages 315-320

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This book is a collection of systematically prepared case studies describing the environmental policy ofthirteen countriesin terms ofcapacity-building. Capacity for environmental policy and management, as the concept is used in this volume, has been defined broadly as a society's "ability (...) to devise and implement solutions to environmental issues as part of a wider effort to achieve sustainable development" (OECD). Since the late 1960s capacity-building in environmental policy and management can be observed across the world. It may have made insufficient progress as yet from an environmentalist point of view, but it has produced some remarkable results, and not only in the industrialised world. In the first chapter we present the conceptual framework that underlies the national case studies. In the course ofour research project the authors ofthe book met together twice to discuss this framework in the light of the national experi­ ences and to harmonise their approaches. In this way we have tried to offer more than a collection of individual and incoherent case studies, focusing only on specific environmental problems, institutions, actors, or instruments. The idea behind this book is to give a systematic, comparative overview ofthe fundamental conditions under which environmental policies is practised in selected countries.

• Environmental Policies
• Environmental Quality
• Umweltpolitik
• Umweltqualität
• Umweltschutz
• Vergleichsstudie
• capacity building/capacity development
• comparative studies
• environment
• environmental protection
• global environmental change
• globale Umweltänderung

• Environmental Policy Research Unit, Free University of Berlin, Germany

  Martin Jänicke, Helge Jörgens

• Science Center Berlin (WZB), Research Unit “Norm Building and Environment”, Germany

  Helmut Weidner

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