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This volume focuses attention on key environmental and
institutional changes associated with eastern expansion of the
European Union, assessing and challenging prevailing views about
the outcomes and processes of this historic development. Looking at
four central themes - capacity changes and limitations, the EU's
mixed messages and conflicting priorities, non-state actor roles
and developments, and the exchange of ideas and information - the
volume shows that enlargement will change the EU, not just make it
bigger, and that EU officials and programs are improving aspects of
environmental policy in CEE countries even as they are making
others less sustainable.
Green activism played a critical role in the downfall of Soviet-style communism in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s. After the revolutions, environmentalists were expected to exert influence within the new democracies and to form the bedrock of the new civil societies that were predicted to flourish across the region; the prospect of EU membership provided activist networks with even greater optimism about their political opportunities. Two decades later what has been the impact of political and economic liberalisation on environmental campaigners and policy advocates? Has access to elites increased with democratisation and Europeanization? To what extent does the realm of environmental politics, within individual states and across the region, continue to represent an optic on change and continuity? Through country case-studies and comparative analysis of national movements, this edited volume addresses each of these questions and provides a different perspective of green politics in the region. This book was previously published as a special issue of Environmental Politics.
Collaboration has become a popular approach to environmental policy, planning, and management. At the urging of citizens, nongovernmental organizations, and industry, government officials at all levels have experimented with collaboration. Yet questions remain about the roles that governments play in collaboration--whether they are constructive and support collaboration, or introduce barriers. This thoughtful book analyzes a series of cases to understand how collaborative processes work and whether government can be an equal partner even as government agencies often formally control decision making and are held accountable for the outcomes. Looking at examples where government has led, encouraged, or followed in collaboration, the authors assess how governmental actors and institutions affected the way issues were defined, the resources available for collaboration, and the organizational processes and structures that were established. Cases include collaborative efforts to manage watersheds, rivers, estuaries, farmland, endangered species habitats, and forests. The authors develop a new theoretical framework and demonstrate that government left a heavy imprint in each of the efforts. The work concludes by discussing the choices and challenges faced by governmental institutions and actors as they try to realize the potential of collaborative environmental management.
This volume focuses attention on key environmental and
institutional changes associated with eastern expansion of the
European Union, assessing and challenging prevailing views about
the outcomes and processes of this historic development. Looking at
four central themes -- capacity changes and limitations, the EU's
mixed messages and conflicting priorities, non-state actor roles
and developments, and the exchange of ideas and information - the
volume shows that enlargement will change the EU, not just make it
bigger, and that EU officials and programs are improving aspects of
environmental policy in CEE countries even as they are making
others less sustainable.
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