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Discusses the opportunities and constraints that environmental systems place upon human systems and suggests environmental policy is a potential way to modify the operation of human systems so that they function within environmental constraints.

Evidence of climate change, resource shortages and biodiversity loss is growing in significance year by year. This second edition of Environmental Policy explains how policy can respond and bring about greater sustainability in individual lifestyles, corporate strategies, national policies and international relations. The book discusses the interaction between environmental and human systems, suggesting environmental policy as a way to steer human systems to function within environmental constraints. Environmental Policy is an accessible text with a multi-disciplinary perspective. Lively.

Evaluates the success of the Swedish presidency of the 2001 European Union (EU) Council of Ministers in the area of environmental policy. Though Sweden lacked an overall political vision for its presidency, it was quite clear regarding this policy arena, outlining an ambitious plan for handling climate change & affirming its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol. The Swedish presidency's achievement of a common position on the Sixth Environmental Action Program is discussed, along with the adoption of the EU's Sustainable Development Strategy. The presidency's ability to establish strong relations with other EU institutions & member state governments on other environmental concerns is also documented, & judged highly successful. 9 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

Im Koalitionsvertrag der rot-grünen Bundesregierung von 1998 wurden neue Zeichen in der Umweltpolitik gesetzt: Einleitung eines längerfristig angelegten Ausstiegs aus der Atomenergie, Einstieg in die ökologische Steuerreform, Vorbereitung einer nationalen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie, Inkrafttreten des Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetzes (EnEG) usw. Im vorliegenden Papier wird ein kurzer Überblick über die Begriffsbildung und Entstehungsgeschichte der Umweltpolitik als Querschnittsaufgabe, über die Akteure und das Instrumentarium der Umweltpolitik sowie über Modelle umweltpolitischer Strategien gegeben. (ICI)

The continuing development of the European Union (EU) is transforming policy and politics in its member countries, and possibly in an even larger number of potential members. This book offers a detailed investigation of the Europeanization of national environmental policy in ten western European countries since 1970. By blending state-of-the-art theories with fresh empirical material on the many manifestations of Europeanization, it sheds new light on the dynamics that are decisively reshaping national environmental policy. It also offers an original assessment of how far Europeanizatio.