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The short guide to environmental policy

Carolyn Snell and Gary Haq

First published in Great Britain in 2014 by

Policy Press University of Bristol 6th Floor Howard House Queens Avenue Clifton Bristol BS8 1SD UK Tel +44 (0)117 331 5020 Fax +44 (0)117 331 5367 e-mail

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ISBN 978 1 44730 719 8 epub
ISBN 978 1 44731 246 8 Kindle

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AAUs	assigned amount units
BSE	bovine spongiform encephalopathy
CDM	clean development mechanism
CER	certified emission reductions
CFCs	chlorofluorocarbons
COP	Conference of Parties
DEFFRA	Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (UK)
DfT	Department for Transport (UK)
EMAS	Eco-Management and Auditing Scheme
ERUs	emission reduction units
EU	European Union
FAO	Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN
FoE	Friends of the Earth
FSC	Forestry Stewardship Council
GCF	Green Climate Fund
GDP	gross domestic product
GEF	Global Environmental Facility
GEO	Global Environmental Outlook
GHG	greenhouse gas
GM	genetic modification
IMF	International Monetary Fund
IPCC	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IUCN	International Union for Conservation of Nature
JI	joint implementation
KP	Kyoto Protocol
KSI	killed or seriously injured (UK Transport)
MBIs	market-based instruments
MDGs	Millennium Development Goals
MEA	Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
NEF	New Economics Foundation
NEPIs	new environmental policy instruments
NGO	non-governmental organisation
NIMBY	not in my back yard
OECD	Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
POP	persistent organic pollutant
RMUs	removal units
SSK	sociology of scientific knowledge
SSE	steady-state economy
TfL	Transport for London
UN	United Nations
UNCED	United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
UNCHE	United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
UNEP	United Nations Environment Programme
UNFCCC	United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UV	ultraviolet
WCED	World Commission on Environment and Development
WFP	World Food Programme
WHO	World Health Organization
WTO	World Trade Organization
WWF	World Wildlife Fund

IPCC (www.ipcc.ch/)

UNEP (www.unep.org)

WHO (www.who.int)

New Economics Foundation (www.neweconomics.org/)

Environmental Justice Foundation (http://ejfoundation.org/)

World Health Organisation (www.who.int)

The EU and environmental policy (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/index_en.htm)

United Nations Environment Programme (www.unep.org/)

United Nations Development Programme (www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home.html)

Commission on Sustainable Development(http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/csd.html)

Food and Agricultural Organisation (www.fao.org/home/en/)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (www.ipcc.ch/)

Sustainable development commission (UK) (www.sd-commission.org.uk/)

International Institute for Sustainable Development (www.iisd.org/sd/)

Involve: making participation count (UK) (www.involve.org.uk/)

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (www.un.org/en/development/desa/index.html)

United Nations Population Division (www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/)

United Nations Environment Programme (www.unep.org/)

New Economics Foundation (www.neweconomics.org/)

Carolyn Snell is a lecturer in social policy in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York, UK. Carolyn specialises in the links between social policy and the environment and runs two specialist modules, Sustainable Development and Social Inclusion and Environmental Policy from Global to Local. Carolyns main research interests are fuel poverty, education for sustainable development, public participation in policy development, and environmental attitudes and behaviours.

Gary Haq is a human ecologist and senior research associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute based in the Environment Department at the University of York, UK. Gary has worked on a range of environmental issues in Africa, Asia and Europe. His research has contributed to bridging the gap between science and policy at the global, national, European and local level.

We would like to thank Sarah Royston (ne Hards), Adriana Ford-Thompson and Jessica Roberts for a number of the case studies included in this guide. We are also grateful to Claire Quinn for input when some of the materials included in this book were part of an online MA module in environmental policy. Thank you also to Pat and Mike Snell for providing a quiet writing venue during the summer of 2012. Finally we would to thank to Ian, John, Ben, and Heidi Folland for support their throughout 201113.

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