European Environmental Policy (eBook)

East and West

Josef Fullenbach (Autor)

Francois Duchene (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
266 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4831-6206-5 (ISBN)

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European Environmental Policy: East and West focuses on areas of cooperation between Eastern and Western Europe in the field of environmental protection. This text explores the various economic and political circumstances in East and West within which the environmental problem arises, and which will determine the possibilities of reaching a solution. This book also examines results and opportunities still open for East-West environmental cooperation. This text has 10 chapters and begins with a brief presentation of the problem areas, followed by a survey of existing legislative and organizational arrangements. The next chapters analyze the forms of environmental cooperation practiced in Comecon countries; the influence of the structural characteristics of socialist economic integration on collaboration in the environmental field; and the causes of environmental problems that are specific to East and West. The limitations and possibilities of cooperation between East and West are then discussed, with emphasis on sub-regional cooperation between those countries faced with a specific transnational pollution problem, namely, the countries bordering the Baltic and the river Danube. This book will be of interest to planners and decision makers involved in environmental policy and protection, especially in Europe.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
European Environmental Policy: East and West 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
Foreword 9
PART 1: Introduction 12
Introduction 14
Notes to Part 1 19
PART 2: Environmental Policy and Action in Eastern Europe 22
CHAPTER ONE. Environmental problems and their solutions at national level 24
1.1 The German Democratic Republic (DDR) 24
1.2 Environmental problems and their attempted solution in Czechoslovakia 30
1.3 Environmental problems and their attempted solution in Poland 39
1.4 Environmental problems and their attempted solution in the USSR 44
CHAPTER TWO. Environmental co-operation in CMEA (Comecon) 51
2.1 Introduction 51
2.2 Environmental co-operation between individual Comecon members 52
2.3 Environmental co-operation at Comecon level 56
Notes to Part 2 68
PART 3: Economic System and Environmental Protection 82
CHAPTER THREE. Introduction 84
CHAPTER FOUR. Causes of environmental damage 89
4.1 Causes which are not determined by the economic system 89
4.2 Price as a cause of environmental problems 90
4.3 Ideological prejudices 93
4.4 The primacy of production 98
CHAPTER FIVE. Instruments of environmental policy 104
5.1 'Moral persuasion' 104
5.2 Economic measures for environmental protection 106
5.3 Environmental instruments under socialism 110
CHAPTER SIX. Conclusions 116
Notes to Part 3 118
PART 4: East-West Co-operation in Environmental Protection 130
CHAPTER SEVEN. Introduction 132
CHAPTER EIGHT. Basic considerations of East-West environmental co-operation 135
CHAPTER NINE. Bilateral environmental cooperation between East and West 146
9.1 Examples 146
9.2 Cross-border environmental problems between the Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic 150
CHAPTER TEN. Multilateral environmental co-operation between East and West 157
10.1 The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe 157
10.2 The United Nations' Economic Commission for Europe 178
10.3 Relations between Comecon and the EEC 186
10.4 Selected multinational problems of environmental policy in East-West relations 193
Notes to Part 4 206
PART 5: Conclusions 222
Conclusions 224
Notes to Part 5 227
PART 6: Postscript 228
Postscript 230
Appendix Major legislation and regulations on the environment in the DDR, USSR, Czechoslovakia and Poland (in chronological order) 236
Bibliography 242
Index 256
Index of persons 264

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
• Themenwelt: Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Immobilienwirtschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-4831-6206-0 / 1483162060
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4831-6206-5 / 9781483162065