Implementing EU Environmental Policy; New Directions and Old Problems

by Edited by Christoph Knill and Andrea Lenschow

• ISBN13: 9780719059285
• ISBN10: 0719059283
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2000-11-18
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This book analyzes the impact of new policy instruments and more participatory forms of governance on closing the implementation gap in EU environmental policy and situates these new approaches in the general conceptual debate on effective implementation and compliance. The volume is the first to offer a comprehensive assessment of the factors affecting the implementation performance of varying policy instruments. It addresses the topic from an innovative theoretical perspective, combining implementation theories with institutionalist approaches.

Author Biography

Christoph Knill is Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Project Group: "Common Goods: Law Politics and Economics" at Bonn, Germany.

Andrea Lenschow is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Salzburg, Austria.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	vii
List of contributors	ix
Preface	xiii
List of abbreviations	xv
Part one The implementation of EU environmental policy: deficiencies in theory and practice
Introduction: new approaches to reach effective implementation---political rhetoric or sound concepts?	3	(6)
Christoph Knill
Andrea Lenschow
On deficient implementation and deficient theories: the need for an institutional perspective in implementation research	9	(30)
Christoph Knill
Andrea Lenschow
Part two The impact of institutional innovations
New Structures for environmental governance in the European Commission: the institutional limits of governance change	39	(23)
Marieva Favoino
Christoph Knill
Andrea Lenschow
Improving implementation by networking: the role of the European Environment Agency	62	(25)
Rasmus Dilling
Part three The impact of new instruments
Implementing voluntary policy instruments: the experience of the EU Ecolable Award Scheme	87	(29)
Robert Wright
Environmental management systems and audits as alternative environmental policy instruments?	116	(18)
Jan Jaap Bouma
Exploiting the implementation potential of alternative instruments: design options for environmental liability funds	134	(34)
Konstantinos Tsekouras
Implementing European environmental policy and the Directive on Access to Environmental Information	168	(29)
Cliona Kimber
Implementation of EU environmental policy in Central European applicant states: the case of EIA	197	(25)
Joanne Caddy
Improving compliance through domestic mobilisation? New instruments and the effectiveness of implementation in Spain	222	(29)
Tanja A. Borzel
Do new brooms really sweep cleaner? Implementation of new instruments in EU environmental policy	251	(36)
Christoph Knill
Andrea Lenschow
Index	287