This article tries to explain national incentives for protecting environmental goods either autonomously or collectively; it explores how globalisation has affected those incentives; and it suggests how national environmental policy might respond so as to ensure its effectiveness. The central...

This contribution develops a theory on the impact of differentiation on integration and unity among EU member states and discusses empirical evidence from four policy areas. According to the theory, the centripetal effects of closer cooperation among willing EU members on initially unwilling...

Introduction: Discovering the logic of flexible integration -- Conceptual framework for analyzing differentiation -- Differentiated integration theory -- Empirical evidence from EU policies -- Trade integration -- Monetary integration -- Social, environmental, and tax policies -- Justice and...

The aim of this paper is to show how and to what extent short-run differentiation through closer cooperation within the European Union can actually be made compatible with the objective of long-run unity. This question is addressed in a framework for analysis based on public goods theory and...

In the current era of globalisation, national governments are increasingly exposed to international influences which can present many new constraints and opportunities for domestic environmental policies. This comprehensive Handbook pushes the frontiers of theoretical and empirical knowledge,...

In the current era of globalisation, national governments are increasingly exposed to international influences that present new constraints and opportunities for domestic environmental policies. This comprehensive, revised Handbook pushes the frontiers of theoretical and empirical knowledge, and...

This article tries to explain national incentives for protecting environmental goods either autonomously or collectively; it explores how globalisation has affected those incentives; and it suggests how national environmental policy might respond so as to ensure its effectiveness. The central...