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Governance and Environment in Western Europe

Politics, Policy and Administration

Governance and Environment in Western Europe

Politics, Policy and Administration

Kenneth Hanf
and
Alf-Inge Jansen (eds)

First published 1998 by Addison Wesley Longman Limited

Published 2014 by Routledge
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Copyright 1998, Taylor & Francis.

The right of Kenneth Hanf and Alf-Inge Jansen to be identified as editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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ISBN 13: 978-0-582-36820-0 (pbk)

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Governance and environmental quality : environmental politics, policy and administration in Western Europe / Kenneth Hanf and Alf-Inge Jansen (eds.).
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-582-36820-0 (pbk.)
1. Environmental policy--Europe, Western--Case studies. I. Hanf, Kenneth. II. Jansen, Alf-Inge.
HC240.9.E5G68 1998
363.7'0094--dc21

98-21367
CIP

Set by Aina M. Kristensen in 11pt Times

Contents

Kenneth Hanf and Alf-Inge Jansen

Neil Carter and Philip Lowe

Mikael Skou Andersen, Peter Munk Christiansen and Sren Winter

Corinne Larrue and Lucien Chabason

Heinrich Pehle and Alf-Inge Jansen

Callio pe Spanou

Rudolf Lewanski

Kenneth Hanf and Egbert van de Gronden

Alf-Inge Jansen and Per Kristen Mydske

Nuria Font and Francese Morata

Lennart J. Lundqvist

Alan Butt Philip

Alf-Inge Jansen, Oddgeir Osland and Kenneth Hanf

Guide

As chairman of one of the research programmes of the Norwegian Science Council on government and administration I am pleased that the Council has sponsored this book. Sustainable development is the overriding goal in environmental policy and administration and this book contributes to the understanding of the conditions for achieving that goal.

The range of countries covered in this book - representing as they do different stages of development in environmental policy, different state and institutional traditions - provides an interesting opportunity to understand how different types of countries confronting roughly similar problems of environmental management have responded politically and (re)organised their administrative system for carrying out these policy decisions. The readers are well-advised to prepare themselves for a tour de force of the European development of the role of state in environmental policy and, therefore, in public policy in general.

Each of the ten country chapters enables the reader to appreciate the experience of each country separately while, at the same time, the book provides a basis for a comparison of the different national institutional responses to the range of environmental problems confronting such countries. While the Norwegian chapter stands on its own merits, I find it particularly interesting to see how Norway's and the other nine countries' responses to the environmental problems are put into a comparative perspective and discussed within such a perspective.

Students of environmental policy and administration as well as of state society relations, be they occupied with these challenges on a theoretical basis or in practice, at national or local levels, will profit from this book. It will increase their understanding of governing our environment.

Morten Fjeldstad
Oslo
Winter 1997

This book is an outcome of a project emanating from a workshop, organised by the editors, on comparative research on environmental policy and administration. Two or three participants from ten Western European countries were invited to the workshop, that took place at Drbak, a charming town on the Oslofjord.

In pursuing this project we have incurred several debts which we gladly acknowledge, We are grateful to the Norwegian Science Council, which sponsored the workshop that first brought most of the contributors together, and later helped to co-finance the project. We also wish to thank the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Department of Administration and Organisation Theory of the University of Bergen for their financial support. A special thank is due to the head of the department, Torodd Strand, for his encouragement.

The following persons have read two or more chapters of the book: Graham Cox, Eilev S. Jansen, Nina Kleiv and Peter Mills. They all gave us valuable advice and comments. Rajesh Parashar and Russel Shuler have been helpful in teaching some of us subtleties of the English language. We are grateful to Aina Kristensen who took on the thankless task of putting the manuscript into camera-ready form. Finally, we wish to acknowledge our gratitude to the staff of Addison Wesley Longman for their ability to combine efficiency with good will.

Bergen/Rotterdam, April 1998

Alf-Inge Jansen

Kenneth Hanf

Chapter 1
Environmental policy the outcome of strategic action and institutional characteristics

Kenneth Hanf and Alf-Inge Jansen

Protecting the environment a challenge for governance

This book is intended to provide an overview of developments in the area of environmental politics, policy and administration in a selection of ten Western European countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In the light of the growing importance of the European Union for what both its members and other countries do in this field, a chapter on the EU has also been included. The range of countries covered, representing as they do different stages of development in environmental policy as well as different state and institutional traditions, provides an interesting opportunity to examine how different countries, which confront roughly similar types of environmental problems, have responded politically and (re)organised their administrative systems for carrying out these policies. These developments will be illuminated in a comparative perspective, and various country-specific as well as more general characteristics will be discussed.

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