What relevance does economic growth have for achieving environmental policy goals? The report analyzes the arguments of various positions in this discourse and formulates an ideal-type "precautionary post-growth position". It also presents causes of economic growth and identifies social areas...

State aid for environmental protection, subsidies, community guidelines, aid control policy, jurisdiction over environmental policy, integration principle, ecological tax reform, process-integrated environmental protection, clean techniques

European spatial and urban development policies, environmental integration, strategic environmental assessment, European spatial development perspective (ESDP), trans-European transport network (TEN), INTERREG, URBAN

This report is provided in the scope of the project “Advancing REACH”, funded by the research plan of the German Ministry of the Environment. The project aims to develop options to improve the (implementation of) the REACH regulation by analysing various REACH processes and related issues,...