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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Implementing European Union Environmental Policy: Themes and Issues -- 1.2 Aims and Objectives of the Book -- 1.3 Structure of the Book -- Chapter 2 EU Environmental Policy: Political Processes, NEPIs and Policy Implementation -- Part 1 - Environmental Policy and Politics in the EU -- 2.1 The Rise of European Environmental Policy -- 2.2 The Nature of European Environmental Decision-Making -- 2.3 Models of European Environmental Policy-making -- 2.4 Issues in EU Environmental Politics -- 2.5 Concluding Comments -- Part 2 - Environmental Policy Instruments -- 2.6 Introduction -- 2.7 Command-and-Control Regulation -- 2.8 Environmental Taxes and Charges -- 2.9 Tradable Permits -- 2.10 Voluntary Agreements -- 2.11 Experiences with NEPIs in the European Union -- 2.12 Conclusions -- Chapter 3 The Packaging Waste Directive -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 National Policies and the Packaging Waste Directive -- 3.3 Negotiating and Transposing the Packaging Waste Directive -- 3.4 National Packaging Waste Management Systems -- 3.5 Comparison of the UK and German Models -- 3.6 Conclusions -- Chapter 4 Recycling Infrastructure in Britain and Germany -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Voluntary Agreements in Britain and Germany -- 4.3 Hypothecation and The Expansion of Recycling Infrastructure -- 4.4 PRNs and Tradable Permits in Packaging Waste -- 4.5 Conclusions -- Chapter 5 Corporate Responses to Environmental Taxes and Charges -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 National Indicators of Packaging Production -- 5.3 Producer Perceptions of Economic Instruments -- 5.4 Corporate Waste Management -- 5.5 Economic Instruments and Packaging-Waste Management -- 5.6 Alternative Policy Strategies -- 5.7 Conclusions -- Chapter 6 NEPIs and EU Environmental Policy

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Charts -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Is there a 'Southern Problem'? -- Non-compliance in the European Union: Pathology or Statistical Artefact? -- Exploring the 'Southern Problem' -- 3 Why there is (not) a 'Southern Problem' -- The Diagnosis is the 'Mediterranean Syndrome' -- Beyond the 'Mediterranean Syndrome' -- Pressure from Below and from Above: The Pull-and-Push Model -- Reformulating the 'Southern Problem': High Policy Misfit and Low Domestic Mobilization -- 4 Implementing EU Environmental Policies in Germany and Spain -- Selecting the Cases: High Policy Misfit and Differing Degrees of Domestic Mobilization -- Measuring Effective Implementation and Compliance -- Environmental Policy-Making in Germany and Spain -- Drinking Water: Spanish Fit and German Misfit? -- Air Pollution Control: Spanish Misfit and German Fit -- Environmental Impact Assessment: Misfit in Spain and Germany -- Access to Information: Misfit in Spain and Germany -- Eco-Audit Management: Misfit in Spain and Germany -- 5 Conclusions -- Challenging the 'Southern Problem' -- Explaining Compliance with Law Beyond the Nation State: Pressure from Below and Above -- Making European Law Work: Increasing Pull and Push -- Facing the Challenge of Enlargement: Towards Flexibility -- Bibliography -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figure -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: the waste problem in social perspective -- 2 The Social Psychological Perspective I: environmental values and attitudes -- 3 The Social Psychological Perspective II: structural and situational variables -- 4 The Social Psychological Perspective III: psychological factors -- 5 Social Psychological Models of Behaviour: conceptualising action -- 6 The Exeter Study I: planning, implementation and descriptive statistics -- 7 The Exeter Study II: multivariate analyses -- 8 A Framework for Advancing Theory and Policy? -- 9 Conclusion: household waste in social perspective -- Bibliography -- Index