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Explaining differences in environmental policy across Europe: the importance of informal institutions, incomplete information and path dependence

Wätzold, Frank - 2006

implementation of the EU's Eco- Management and Audit Scheme in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. The starting point of the …

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Environmental governance and the dispersal of decision-making

Fairbrass, Jenny - 2003

Currently the European Union (EU) consists of a group of nation states that exhibit an array of constitutional systems …, ranging from the unitary to the fully federal. Among the EU member states, the United Kingdom (UK) has traditionally been … has been 'reserved' to the UK Executive in Whitehall and the Parliament in Westminster is international relations and EU …

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A town called eco: What notions of sustainable development do the government's proposed eco-towns embody?

Rose, Sean - 2009

The eco-towns agenda is intended to address social and environmental concerns through facilitating exemplar new sustainable settlements. Sustainable development, which traditionally combines environmental, economic and social aspects of sustainability, has recently been adopted as a cogent...

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Group Rewards and Individual Sanctions in Environmental Policy

Dijkstra, Bouwe R.; Rübbelke, Dirk T.G. - 2007

policy, the EU burden sharing agreement and the UK Climate Change Agreements feature this incentive scheme. There is only a …

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Limits to CBA in UK and European environmental policy: Retrospects & future prospects

Turner, R. Kerry - 2006

This paper reviews the contemporary debate and the now long standing role of CBA in UK and European environmental policy appraisal and looks forward to possible future applications. The position taken is that despite its limitations CBA still has an important part to play in environmental policy...

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Nachhaltige innovative Wasserwirtschaft - deutsche Governance-Struktur im internationalen Vergleich

Partzsch, Lena - In: ifo Schnelldienst 60 (2007) 18, pp. 16-26

Wassersektor setzen. Hohe Qualitätsstandards in Deutschland und der EU bewirken, dass hier tätige Unternehmen sich frühzeitig auf … Standards einsetzen und ihre Umweltpolitik exportieren. …

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Joining-up or departmentalism? Coordinating policy for sustainable development in the United Kingdom

Russel, Duncan; Jordan, Andrew - 2007

Joined-up government (JUG) is a major pillar of the Labour Government's Modernising Government agenda in the United Kingdom (UK). To date, however, there are still surprisingly few detailed empirical studies of how well JUG initiatives are performing. This paper takes the policy challenge of...

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Understanding the competitiveness implications of future phases of EU ETS on the industrial sectors

Oberndorfer, Ulrich; Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria; … - 2010

In making key decisions for the future phases of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), policy makers …-through of costs generated by the EU ETS. They suggest that some of the sectors analysed have the ability to pass-through a …

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Environmental policy under ambiguity

Vinokur, Leon - 2009

The aim of this paper is to extend existing literature on carbon allowance allocation, investigating the impact of uncertainty and ambiguity, due to the lack of future Environmental policy, on the total production in the market. Specifically, we show that an increase in uncertainty has no effect...

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Klimapolitik in Großbritannien: Abfallprodukt der Energiemarktliberalisierung oder gezielte Politikmaßnahmen?

Michaelowa, Axel - 1998

Großbritannien ist neben Deutschland das einzige große EU-Land, in dem es seit 1990 zu einem deutlichen Rückgang der …. Hinsichtlich der EU-Klimapolitik zeichnet sich Großbritannien durch die massive Ablehnung koordinierter Instrumente aus. Es ist für …

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