Environmental Governance in Europe: A Comparative Analysis of New Environmental Policy Instruments - Softcover
Synopsis
European governance has witnessed dramatic changes in recent decades. By assessing the use of 'new' environmental policy instruments in European Union countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Austria, this timely book analyses whether traditional forms of top-down government have given way to less hierarchical governance instruments, which rely strongly on societal self-steering and/or market forces. The authors provide important new theoretical insights as well as fresh empirical detail on why, and in what form, these instruments are being adopted within and across different levels of governance, along with analysis of the often-overlooked interactions between the instrument types. Providing important new theoretical insights into the governance debate by combining institutionalist and policy learning/transfer approaches, this book will be invaluable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. The analytical insights as well as a thorough empirical assessment of the use of environmental policy instruments in practice will prove essential for environmental policy specialists/practitioners.
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Review
This path-breaking book, written by three well known experts, makes an extremely valuable contribution to the study of new environmental policy instruments as well as to much wider theoretical debates about governance, policy innovation, learning and transfer. Drawing on an unrivalled comparative empirical study of five different jurisdictions, it manages to make many new points about issues that many of us thought had already been settled. --Martin Jänicke, Free University of Berlin, and former deputy chair, German Advisory Council on the Environment, Germany
About the Author
Rudiger K.W. Wurzel, Professor of Comparative European Politics and Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Studies, University of Hull, UK, Anthony R. Zito, Professor of European Public Policy, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK and Andrew J. Jordan, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK
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