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Green giants? - Environmental policies of the United States and the European Union

Author
Vig N.J., Faure M.G. (eds.)
Date
2004
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-073449)
Publisher | Place of publication
MIT Press | Cambridge, MA, USA
ISBN
0-262-72044-2
Pages
398 p.
Document type
Miscellaneous
Language
English
Country/Territory
United States of America, European Union
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
Policy/planning Comparative analysis
Abstract

Contents: Introduction I: Comparing policy trends: Divergence or convergence? (1) The precautionary principle, risk assessment, and the comparative role of science in the European Community and the US legal systems (2) The roots of divergence: A European perspective (3) Convergence, divergence, and complexity in US and European risk regulation II: Regulatory trends: Institutional and policy innovations (4) Environmental federalism in the United States and the European Union (5) Implementation of environmental policy and law in the United States and the European Union (6) Convergence or divergence in the use of ' negotiated environmental agreements ' in European and US environmental policy: An overview (7) What future for environmental liability? The use of liability systems for environmental regulation in the courtrooms of the United States and the European Union III: Policy divergence on global issues (8) The climate change divide: The European Union, the United States, and the future of the Kyoto Protocol (9) Trade and the environment in the global economy: contrasting European and American perspectives (10) International development assistance and burden sharing (11) Sustainable development: Comparative understandings and responses IV: Transnational networks and dialogue (12) Emerging transnational policy networks: The European Environmental Advisory Councils (13) The transatlantic environmental dialogue V: Conclusions (14) Conclusion: The necessary dialogue