In der September-Ausgabe 1998 des WIRTSCHAFTSDIENST veröffentlichten wir einen Aufsatz von Angela Schürfeld mit dem Titel „Droht ein Lohnsenkungswettbewerb in der Europäischen Währungsunion?". Hierzu Repliken von Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kromphardt sowie von Dr. Arne Heise und Thorsten Schulten...

Der Beitrag untersucht, welche Möglichkeiten bestehen, die Folgen der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise im Rahmen der Anwendung des Stabilitäts- und Wachstumspakts zu berücksichtigen. Dabei werden insbesondere Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer 'flexiblen' Anwendung des Pakts erörtert. Er...

Participation is said to improve decisions on environmental conflicts. When investigating 16 case studies of participatory processes in European Water and Biodiversity Governance, which necessarily is multi-level, the picture becomes blurred: many different forms of participation can be...

The question of how to deal with uncertainty in environmental decision-making is cur-rently attracting considerable attention on the part of scientists as well as of politicians and those involved in government administration. The existence of uncertainty becomes particularly apparent in the...

The European Water Framework Directive is shaping a new conception of integrative water protection. In this article, the consequences of the Water Framework Directive in respect to national environmental policy will be discussed in referring to the notion of responsibility which is a central...

This report constitutes the main deliverable of WorkPackage 2 of GoverNat, "Assessing multilevel activities in water and biodiversity governance", dealing with an assessment of state-ofthe- art European water and biodiversity governance, based on the analysis of a series of casestudies developed...

Legitimacy is regarded as one critical aspect of biodiversity management and nature conservation arrangements. Multi-level governance is claimed to pose several challenges to legitimacy. The aim of this paper is to review some legitimacy challenges in multilevel governance contexts, and to...

In February 2001, the European Commission published its White Paper on a Strategy for a Future Chemicals Policy. The publication launched a heated debate on principles, aims, instruments, implementation, and management of future chemicals control in the European Communities. The White Paper came...