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Outlining the results of a three-country study, this text examines the impact of EU policy on the domestic, political and institutional environment. It tests ideas about new forms of governance that reflect the values of participation and empowerment of local interests, particularly through a close scrutiny of the environmental impact process. The book also analyzes the responses of the business sector in three countries - Germany, Greece and Great Britain - to the introduction of a voluntary environmental management system, the eco-management and audit scheme. The data collected brings to light the differences in responding to EU policy in a federal state, in a rapidly modernizing patronage state, and in a highly centralized unitary state. Through these comparisons, the robustness of the notions underpinning new forms of governance are tested and, in a number of respects, found wanting.
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Policy overview and analytical framework: environmental policy - the European Union and a paradigm shift, Hubert Heinelt, Tanya Malek, Nicola Staeck and Annette E. Toller; the environmental impact assessment directive, Nicola Staeck, Tanya Malek and Hubert Heinelt; the eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS) regulation, Tanya Malek and Annette E. Toller. Country studies - Germany: the development of environmental policy in Germany, Tanya Malek; the implementation of EIA in Germany, Nicola Staeck and Hubert Heinelt; the EIA case studies in Germany, Karl Heinz Haunhorst, Hubert Heinelt and Jurgen Taeger; the implementation of EMAS in Germany, Tanya Malek, Hubert Heinelt, Jurgen Taeger and Annette E. Toller; the EMAS case studies in Germany, Annette E. Toller. Britain: the development of environmental policy in Britain, Randall Smith; the implementation of EIA in Britain, Randall Smith; the EIA case studies in Britain, Malcolm McIntosh and Randall Smith; the implementation of EMAS in Britain, Malcolm McIntosh and Randall Smith; the EMAS case studies in Britain. Greece: the development of environment policy in Greece, Panagiotis Getimis and Georgia Giannakourou; the implementation of EIA in Greece, Evanthia Athanassopoulou; the EIA case studies in Greece, Evanthia Athanassopoulou; the implentation of EMAS in Greece, Georgia Giannakourou; the EMAS and (ISO 14001) case studies in Greece, Panagiotis Getimis and Georgia Giannakourou and Zefi Dimadama. Relections: comparing EIA and EMAS in Germany, Britain and Greece, Hubert Heinelt and Annette E. Toller.
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