Anthony R Zito
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1616574 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anthony R Zito |
| NOMBRES | Anthony R |
| APELLIDO | Zito |
| FIRMA | ZITO A R |
| AFILIACIONES | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2312-4781 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 585 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Pathways for transforming biodiversity governance
With less than five years remaining to meet global commitments outlined in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)—to stem biodiversity loss—systemic and radical changes in biodiversity governance and management are needed. Addressing these challenges requires a fundamental and transformative shift in the way nature is valued across political, economic, and social spheres. We suggest that the GBF’s Considerations section provides…
Framing European Heritage and Identity
This submission examines the impact of the European Union (EU) policy efforts to construct a European Heritage and a sense of belonging within the wider European population on Heritage policy. The article explores how the EU has selected and wielded instruments that frame particular values that (1) respond to specific policy problems and impact European heritage(s) and (2) build political myths articulating particular visions of what the EU repre…
Trajectories of Governance
Trajectories of Governance
Engines of learning? Policy instruments, cities and climate governance
This contribution investigates how combinations of instruments, often called policy mixes, enhance policy learning processes at different levels. It analyzes the European Union’s (EU) Covenant of Mayors (CoM) that is underpinned by a set of learning instruments, to promote local action for sustainable energy and climate. The piece offers an original framework to explore whether and how the Covenant enhances learning at the level of European insti…
Trajectories in environmental politics
This book explores the dominant framings and paradigms of environmental politics, the relationship between academic analysis and environmental politics, and reflects on the first thirty years of the journal, Environmental Politics. The book has two purposes. The first is to identify and discuss the key themes that have driven scholarship in the field of environmental politics over the last three decades, and to highlight how this has also led to …
Dismantling, disintegration or continuing stealthy integration in European Union environmental policy
This symposium assesses the trajectory of European Union (EU) environmental policy and integration in light of the rising pressure for policy dismantling and disintegration. This introductory article discusses the literature and the mixed evidence of EU environmental policy dismantling. Building on the three symposium articles, we investigate the role of the European Commission in this process, evaluating its role as a general ‘motor of integrati…
Is the trajectory of European Union environmental policy less certain
The core themes and research questions of this volume, centred on the nature of environmental policy change in the European Union (EU), are laid out. An original heuristic framework to capture different dimensions, mechanisms and processes of policy change is presented. In order to contextualise the current situation, where EU policy scope has reached maturity and faces an uncertain future trajectory, EU environmental politics is divided into par…
De-Europeanising or disengaging? EU environmental policy and Brexit
The European Union (EU) has had a profound effect upon its members’ environmental policy. Even in the United Kingdom (UK), the EU’s most recalcitrant member state (historically labeled the ‘Dirty man of Europe’), environmental policy has been Europeanised. As the UK moves to the EU’s exit door it is timely to assess the utility of Europeanisation for understanding policy dynamics in the UK. Drawing upon interviews and extensive engagement with st…
Instrument constituencies and epistemic community theory
This contribution fleshes out the insights that the epistemic community (EC) approach can make to studying the public policy process and to how policy instruments are formulated and implemented. This contribution places the EC concept in the context of how policy instruments evolve and are supported by a separate network type, the instrument constituency (IC). It studies the conceptual differences between the EC and IC, analyses the conceptual pr…
Regiones verdes? Comparación del activismo de la sociedad civil en el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte y la Unión Europea
En este documento se compara el papel de la sociedad ambientalista civil en dos organizaciones regionales: la Unión Europea y el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte. Para ello se utiliza la red transnacional de defensa que evalúa cómo las ong aprovechan las oportunidades para influenciar la política y los efectos del compromiso de la sociedad civil. Pese a las grandes diferencias entre esas organizaciones, comparten aspectos fundamenta…
Expertise and Power
This contribution investigates the strategies that environmental agencies develop to enhance their policy autonomy, in order to fulfil their organisational missions for protecting the environment. This article asks whether there are particular strategic moves that an agency can make to augment this policy autonomy in the face of the principals. Critiquing principal agent theory, it investigates the evolution of three environmental agencies (the E…
Climate change ethics, rights, and policies
Climate change continues to dominate academic work within green/environmental politics. Indeed, there appears to be almost an inverse relationship between the lack of political leadership on tackling climate change and the growth in ever more sophisticated academic analyses of this complex and multifaceted problem. There is an increasing disjunction between the growth in our knowledge and understanding of the ethical, political, economic, sociolo…
Still the century of 'new' environmental policy instruments? Exploring patterns of innovation and continuity
We re-examine the political interest in and use of ‘new’ environmental policy instruments and other non-regulatory modes of governance. We start by taking stock of the dynamic debate that has emerged around this topic since the turn of the century. We then contextualise that debate by examining subsequent challenges to, and transformations in, state-led governing and the broader and widely acknowledged rise of ‘new governance’, highlighting the m…
Governance From the Bottom Up
This symposium article examines how the threefold governance framework of the symposium actually works across multiple policy sectors and multiple politically systems. It undertakes a comparative survey of governance‐related developments across three policy sectors: environment, education/higher education and forests. To control for differentiation in political structures, the article studies the policy sectors with respect to three political sys…
Symposium Overview
This symposium, ‘Conceptualizing New Governance Arrangements', takes up the challenge of refining governance theory to better integrate work in several disciplines, most notably politics, public administration and law. To this end, we argue for a theoretical framework that profiles three key dimensions of governance: institutional, political and regulatory. This framework, in our view, offers new insights into the nature and operation of various …
Climate change, national politics and grassroots action
There is considerable cross-national variation in the patterns of adoption and implementation of policies designed to mitigate climate change. The sources of this variation are considered. International relations, economic structures, national cultures and domestic political competition are factors, often in interaction one with another. In situations of multilevel governance, sub-national actors may be significant. Grassroots activism from witho…
European agencies as agents of governance and EU learning
This article asks how the EU as a regional organization manages to learn and adapt to policy challenges. It investigates the evolution of one regional level and one national environmental agency (the European Environment Agency and the Environment Agency of England and Wales) which have distinct roles in influencing EU environmental policy performance. The article examines the role of agencies and bureaucracies more generally, investigating some …
Learning theory reconsidered
This article introduces this special issue by contextualizing learning theory within European integration studies. There are important empirical and theoretical gaps in the study of European integration which necessitate a greater attention to learning theory. This article deploys a number of conceptual distinctions about learning and non-learning processes, drawing from political science, international relations, public administration and sociol…
The European Union as an environmental leader in a global environment
Since the 1970s the European Union has made enormous strides in the global environmental arena and developed a considerable global standing. This article assesses the nature and scope of this new international leadership. It examines the EU institutional context and historical opportunities. The article presents an analytical overview that helps explain the dimensions of the EU role, as well as the conflicts within these roles. The article asks t…
The Rise of ‘New’ Policy Instruments in Comparative Perspective
Governance is a term in good currency, but there are still too few detailed empirical analyses of the precise extent to which it has or has not eclipsed government. This article explores the temporal and spatial characteristics of the governance transition by charting the deployment of new policy instruments in eight industrialised states and the European Union. The adoption and implementation of (‘old’ and ‘new’) policy instruments offer a usefu…
Introduction to the symposium on ‘new’ policy instruments in the European Union
Throughout the international community - and specifically in the European Union - there is an increased focus on 'new modes of governance', for three different - but sometimes interrelated - reasons: achieving more efficiency and better delivery, creating the pre-conditions for participatory governance, and modernizing the regulatory system. The debate on 'what public policies can really achieve', how they can 'bring society back in', and whether…
Comparative Conclusions - 'New' Environmental Policy Instruments
The popularity of 'New' Environmental Policy Instruments (NEPIs) has prompted widespread claims that contemporary environmental policy is undergoing a deep seated and long lasting revolution, characterised by a shift from environmental government to environmental governance. This study compares the adoption of NEPIs in the eight case study countries. It reveals that there are common drivers of change, but that the resulting pattern of use is high…
Struggling to Leave Behind a Highly Regulatory Past? 'New' Environmental Policy Instruments in Austria
Austria has long been urged to make wider use of market-based instruments by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Despite this and the significant increase in domestic demands in recent years, the uptake of 'new' environmental policy instruments (NEPIs), namely market-based instruments (such as eco-taxes and tradable permits), voluntary agreements and informational devices (such as eco-labels and eco-audits) has been only mo…
From High Regulatory State to Social and Ecological Market Economy? New Environmental Policy Instruments in Germany
Demands for wider use of 'new' environmental policy instruments (NEPIs), namely market-based instruments (such as eco-taxes and tradable permits), voluntary agreements and informational devices (such as eco-labels and eco-audits) have increased significantly in Germany in recent years. Germany has also been urged to make wider use of market-based instruments by external actors (such as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and…
The Rise of ‘New’ Policy Instruments in Comparative Perspective
Governance is a term in good currency, but there are still too few detailed empirical analyses of the precise extent to which it has or has not eclipsed government. This article explores the temporal and spatial characteristics of the governance transition by charting the deployment of new policy instruments in eight industrialised states and the European Union. The adoption and implementation of (‘old’ and ‘new’) policy instruments offer a usefu…
Learning theory reconsidered
This article introduces this special issue by contextualizing learning theory within European integration studies. There are important empirical and theoretical gaps in the study of European integration which necessitate a greater attention to learning theory. This article deploys a number of conceptual distinctions about learning and non-learning processes, drawing from political science, international relations, public administration and sociol…
Epistemic communities, collective entrepreneurship and European integration
This article investigates the conditions under which epistemic communities define the preferences of European Union (EU) policy-makers. The paper examines how one epistemic community, using the critical loads approach, has influenced EU acid rain policy.The article contends that actors seeking to change EU policy must pursue collective entrepreneurship. Epistemic communities can provide such entrepreneurship, but they only operate in very defined…
Blurring or Shifting of Policy Frames
This article investigates how “policy frames” have shaped the way European Community actors perceive the policy linkage between market integration and environmental policy. The article contends that there are three Community policy frames: conditional, classic, and sustainability. They form alternative “packages” of policy ideas defining the relationship between economic and environmental policy. The article provides an analysis of how actors emb…
New' Instruments of Environmental Governance
In recent years most industrialised countries have adopted 'new' environmental policy instruments (NEPIs) voluntary agreements, environmental taxes, tradable permits and eco-labels. This collection examines the current pattern of use over time (that is, 1970-2000) in eight industrialised countries. This introduction defines a NEPI and introduces the two main objectives of the whole collection, which are to: (1) identify where and when NEPIs are b…
Still the century of 'new' environmental policy instruments? Exploring patterns of innovation and continuity
We re-examine the political interest in and use of ‘new’ environmental policy instruments and other non-regulatory modes of governance. We start by taking stock of the dynamic debate that has emerged around this topic since the turn of the century. We then contextualise that debate by examining subsequent challenges to, and transformations in, state-led governing and the broader and widely acknowledged rise of ‘new governance’, highlighting the m…
Symposium Overview
This symposium, ‘Conceptualizing New Governance Arrangements', takes up the challenge of refining governance theory to better integrate work in several disciplines, most notably politics, public administration and law. To this end, we argue for a theoretical framework that profiles three key dimensions of governance: institutional, political and regulatory. This framework, in our view, offers new insights into the nature and operation of various …
De-Europeanising or disengaging? EU environmental policy and Brexit
The European Union (EU) has had a profound effect upon its members’ environmental policy. Even in the United Kingdom (UK), the EU’s most recalcitrant member state (historically labeled the ‘Dirty man of Europe’), environmental policy has been Europeanised. As the UK moves to the EU’s exit door it is timely to assess the utility of Europeanisation for understanding policy dynamics in the UK. Drawing upon interviews and extensive engagement with st…
European agencies as agents of governance and EU learning
This article asks how the EU as a regional organization manages to learn and adapt to policy challenges. It investigates the evolution of one regional level and one national environmental agency (the European Environment Agency and the Environment Agency of England and Wales) which have distinct roles in influencing EU environmental policy performance. The article examines the role of agencies and bureaucracies more generally, investigating some …
The European Union as an environmental leader in a global environment
Since the 1970s the European Union has made enormous strides in the global environmental arena and developed a considerable global standing. This article assesses the nature and scope of this new international leadership. It examines the EU institutional context and historical opportunities. The article presents an analytical overview that helps explain the dimensions of the EU role, as well as the conflicts within these roles. The article asks t…
Governance From the Bottom Up
This symposium article examines how the threefold governance framework of the symposium actually works across multiple policy sectors and multiple politically systems. It undertakes a comparative survey of governance‐related developments across three policy sectors: environment, education/higher education and forests. To control for differentiation in political structures, the article studies the policy sectors with respect to three political sys…
Comparative Conclusions - 'New' Environmental Policy Instruments
The popularity of 'New' Environmental Policy Instruments (NEPIs) has prompted widespread claims that contemporary environmental policy is undergoing a deep seated and long lasting revolution, characterised by a shift from environmental government to environmental governance. This study compares the adoption of NEPIs in the eight case study countries. It reveals that there are common drivers of change, but that the resulting pattern of use is high…
Dismantling, disintegration or continuing stealthy integration in European Union environmental policy
This symposium assesses the trajectory of European Union (EU) environmental policy and integration in light of the rising pressure for policy dismantling and disintegration. This introductory article discusses the literature and the mixed evidence of EU environmental policy dismantling. Building on the three symposium articles, we investigate the role of the European Commission in this process, evaluating its role as a general ‘motor of integrati…
Steering through Complexity
The nature of governance in the European Union (EU) and its member states is continuing to evolve as the EU develops. This paper focuses on the challenges to this governance process in the sector of environmental policy, and particularly the role of external organizations and states in providing alternate policy fora. The policy impact of these institutions and organizations leads to more actor participation in a way that EU players may not be ab…
Instrument constituencies and epistemic community theory
This contribution fleshes out the insights that the epistemic community (EC) approach can make to studying the public policy process and to how policy instruments are formulated and implemented. This contribution places the EC concept in the context of how policy instruments evolve and are supported by a separate network type, the instrument constituency (IC). It studies the conceptual differences between the EC and IC, analyses the conceptual pr…
Is the trajectory of European Union environmental policy less certain
The core themes and research questions of this volume, centred on the nature of environmental policy change in the European Union (EU), are laid out. An original heuristic framework to capture different dimensions, mechanisms and processes of policy change is presented. In order to contextualise the current situation, where EU policy scope has reached maturity and faces an uncertain future trajectory, EU environmental politics is divided into par…
Introduction to the symposium on ‘new’ policy instruments in the European Union
Throughout the international community - and specifically in the European Union - there is an increased focus on 'new modes of governance', for three different - but sometimes interrelated - reasons: achieving more efficiency and better delivery, creating the pre-conditions for participatory governance, and modernizing the regulatory system. The debate on 'what public policies can really achieve', how they can 'bring society back in', and whether…
Climate change, national politics and grassroots action
There is considerable cross-national variation in the patterns of adoption and implementation of policies designed to mitigate climate change. The sources of this variation are considered. International relations, economic structures, national cultures and domestic political competition are factors, often in interaction one with another. In situations of multilevel governance, sub-national actors may be significant. Grassroots activism from witho…
From High Regulatory State to Social and Ecological Market Economy? New Environmental Policy Instruments in Germany
Demands for wider use of 'new' environmental policy instruments (NEPIs), namely market-based instruments (such as eco-taxes and tradable permits), voluntary agreements and informational devices (such as eco-labels and eco-audits) have increased significantly in Germany in recent years. Germany has also been urged to make wider use of market-based instruments by external actors (such as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and…
Engines of learning? Policy instruments, cities and climate governance
This contribution investigates how combinations of instruments, often called policy mixes, enhance policy learning processes at different levels. It analyzes the European Union’s (EU) Covenant of Mayors (CoM) that is underpinned by a set of learning instruments, to promote local action for sustainable energy and climate. The piece offers an original framework to explore whether and how the Covenant enhances learning at the level of European insti…
Struggling to Leave Behind a Highly Regulatory Past? 'New' Environmental Policy Instruments in Austria
Austria has long been urged to make wider use of market-based instruments by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Despite this and the significant increase in domestic demands in recent years, the uptake of 'new' environmental policy instruments (NEPIs), namely market-based instruments (such as eco-taxes and tradable permits), voluntary agreements and informational devices (such as eco-labels and eco-audits) has been only mo…
Instrument Innovation in an Environmental Lead State
'New Environmental Policy Instruments' (NEPIs) have a vital role to play in the Netherlands, but should not be overemphasised. They remain part of a mix of instruments that retains a considerable role for the traditional command and control instruments. Dutch environmental innovation shows much evidence of gradual, adaptive learning stimulated by changes in governments, philosophies and external pressures, such as the Kyoto Agreement. Some instru…
Regiones verdes? Comparación del activismo de la sociedad civil en el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte y la Unión Europea
En este documento se compara el papel de la sociedad ambientalista civil en dos organizaciones regionales: la Unión Europea y el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte. Para ello se utiliza la red transnacional de defensa que evalúa cómo las ong aprovechan las oportunidades para influenciar la política y los efectos del compromiso de la sociedad civil. Pese a las grandes diferencias entre esas organizaciones, comparten aspectos fundamenta…
Framing European Heritage and Identity
This submission examines the impact of the European Union (EU) policy efforts to construct a European Heritage and a sense of belonging within the wider European population on Heritage policy. The article explores how the EU has selected and wielded instruments that frame particular values that (1) respond to specific policy problems and impact European heritage(s) and (2) build political myths articulating particular visions of what the EU repre…
Trajectories in environmental politics
This book explores the dominant framings and paradigms of environmental politics, the relationship between academic analysis and environmental politics, and reflects on the first thirty years of the journal, Environmental Politics. The book has two purposes. The first is to identify and discuss the key themes that have driven scholarship in the field of environmental politics over the last three decades, and to highlight how this has also led to …
Comparing environmental policy-making in transnational institutions
This article examines how the differing institutional structures of the European Union (EU) and three international organizations shape environmental legislative output for European actors. Using international organization and new institutionalist approaches, the article derives a number of comparative propositions, suggesting that differences in structure influence government and non-state actor behaviour. The range of available international fo…
Blurring or Shifting of Policy Frames
This article investigates how “policy frames” have shaped the way European Community actors perceive the policy linkage between market integration and environmental policy. The article contends that there are three Community policy frames: conditional, classic, and sustainability. They form alternative “packages” of policy ideas defining the relationship between economic and environmental policy. The article provides an analysis of how actors emb…
Environmental management standards, corporate strategies and policy networks
The establishment of environmental management systems is part of the shift away from command and control policies to more flexible policy instruments, giving firms more scope to decide for themselves what the best practicable options are. As a result of this ‘shared responsibility’ between public and private actors in environmental issues, the development of environmental management systems is a good example of a policy network with a core group …
Epistemic communities, collective entrepreneurship and European integration
This article investigates the conditions under which epistemic communities define the preferences of European Union (EU) policy-makers. The paper examines how one epistemic community, using the critical loads approach, has influenced EU acid rain policy.The article contends that actors seeking to change EU policy must pursue collective entrepreneurship. Epistemic communities can provide such entrepreneurship, but they only operate in very defined…
Steering through Complexity
The nature of governance in the European Union (EU) and its member states is continuing to evolve as the EU develops. This paper focuses on the challenges to this governance process in the sector of environmental policy, and particularly the role of external organizations and states in providing alternate policy fora. The policy impact of these institutions and organizations leads to more actor participation in a way that EU players may not be ab…
Introduction to the symposium on ‘new’ policy instruments in the European Union
Throughout the international community - and specifically in the European Union - there is an increased focus on 'new modes of governance', for three different - but sometimes interrelated - reasons: achieving more efficiency and better delivery, creating the pre-conditions for participatory governance, and modernizing the regulatory system. The debate on 'what public policies can really achieve', how they can 'bring society back in', and whether…
Comparative Conclusions - 'New' Environmental Policy Instruments
The popularity of 'New' Environmental Policy Instruments (NEPIs) has prompted widespread claims that contemporary environmental policy is undergoing a deep seated and long lasting revolution, characterised by a shift from environmental government to environmental governance. This study compares the adoption of NEPIs in the eight case study countries. It reveals that there are common drivers of change, but that the resulting pattern of use is high…
Struggling to Leave Behind a Highly Regulatory Past? 'New' Environmental Policy Instruments in Austria
Austria has long been urged to make wider use of market-based instruments by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Despite this and the significant increase in domestic demands in recent years, the uptake of 'new' environmental policy instruments (NEPIs), namely market-based instruments (such as eco-taxes and tradable permits), voluntary agreements and informational devices (such as eco-labels and eco-audits) has been only mo…
From High Regulatory State to Social and Ecological Market Economy? New Environmental Policy Instruments in Germany
Demands for wider use of 'new' environmental policy instruments (NEPIs), namely market-based instruments (such as eco-taxes and tradable permits), voluntary agreements and informational devices (such as eco-labels and eco-audits) have increased significantly in Germany in recent years. Germany has also been urged to make wider use of market-based instruments by external actors (such as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and…
New' Instruments of Environmental Governance
In recent years most industrialised countries have adopted 'new' environmental policy instruments (NEPIs) voluntary agreements, environmental taxes, tradable permits and eco-labels. This collection examines the current pattern of use over time (that is, 1970-2000) in eight industrialised countries. This introduction defines a NEPI and introduces the two main objectives of the whole collection, which are to: (1) identify where and when NEPIs are b…
Instrument Innovation in an Environmental Lead State
'New Environmental Policy Instruments' (NEPIs) have a vital role to play in the Netherlands, but should not be overemphasised. They remain part of a mix of instruments that retains a considerable role for the traditional command and control instruments. Dutch environmental innovation shows much evidence of gradual, adaptive learning stimulated by changes in governments, philosophies and external pressures, such as the Kyoto Agreement. Some instru…
The European Union as an environmental leader in a global environment
Since the 1970s the European Union has made enormous strides in the global environmental arena and developed a considerable global standing. This article assesses the nature and scope of this new international leadership. It examines the EU institutional context and historical opportunities. The article presents an analytical overview that helps explain the dimensions of the EU role, as well as the conflicts within these roles. The article asks t…
The Rise of ‘New’ Policy Instruments in Comparative Perspective
Governance is a term in good currency, but there are still too few detailed empirical analyses of the precise extent to which it has or has not eclipsed government. This article explores the temporal and spatial characteristics of the governance transition by charting the deployment of new policy instruments in eight industrialised states and the European Union. The adoption and implementation of (‘old’ and ‘new’) policy instruments offer a usefu…
European agencies as agents of governance and EU learning
This article asks how the EU as a regional organization manages to learn and adapt to policy challenges. It investigates the evolution of one regional level and one national environmental agency (the European Environment Agency and the Environment Agency of England and Wales) which have distinct roles in influencing EU environmental policy performance. The article examines the role of agencies and bureaucracies more generally, investigating some …
Learning theory reconsidered
This article introduces this special issue by contextualizing learning theory within European integration studies. There are important empirical and theoretical gaps in the study of European integration which necessitate a greater attention to learning theory. This article deploys a number of conceptual distinctions about learning and non-learning processes, drawing from political science, international relations, public administration and sociol…
Governance From the Bottom Up
This symposium article examines how the threefold governance framework of the symposium actually works across multiple policy sectors and multiple politically systems. It undertakes a comparative survey of governance‐related developments across three policy sectors: environment, education/higher education and forests. To control for differentiation in political structures, the article studies the policy sectors with respect to three political sys…
Symposium Overview
This symposium, ‘Conceptualizing New Governance Arrangements', takes up the challenge of refining governance theory to better integrate work in several disciplines, most notably politics, public administration and law. To this end, we argue for a theoretical framework that profiles three key dimensions of governance: institutional, political and regulatory. This framework, in our view, offers new insights into the nature and operation of various …
Climate change, national politics and grassroots action
There is considerable cross-national variation in the patterns of adoption and implementation of policies designed to mitigate climate change. The sources of this variation are considered. International relations, economic structures, national cultures and domestic political competition are factors, often in interaction one with another. In situations of multilevel governance, sub-national actors may be significant. Grassroots activism from witho…
Climate change ethics, rights, and policies
Climate change continues to dominate academic work within green/environmental politics. Indeed, there appears to be almost an inverse relationship between the lack of political leadership on tackling climate change and the growth in ever more sophisticated academic analyses of this complex and multifaceted problem. There is an increasing disjunction between the growth in our knowledge and understanding of the ethical, political, economic, sociolo…
Still the century of 'new' environmental policy instruments? Exploring patterns of innovation and continuity
We re-examine the political interest in and use of ‘new’ environmental policy instruments and other non-regulatory modes of governance. We start by taking stock of the dynamic debate that has emerged around this topic since the turn of the century. We then contextualise that debate by examining subsequent challenges to, and transformations in, state-led governing and the broader and widely acknowledged rise of ‘new governance’, highlighting the m…
Expertise and Power
This contribution investigates the strategies that environmental agencies develop to enhance their policy autonomy, in order to fulfil their organisational missions for protecting the environment. This article asks whether there are particular strategic moves that an agency can make to augment this policy autonomy in the face of the principals. Critiquing principal agent theory, it investigates the evolution of three environmental agencies (the E…
Regiones verdes? Comparación del activismo de la sociedad civil en el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte y la Unión Europea
En este documento se compara el papel de la sociedad ambientalista civil en dos organizaciones regionales: la Unión Europea y el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte. Para ello se utiliza la red transnacional de defensa que evalúa cómo las ong aprovechan las oportunidades para influenciar la política y los efectos del compromiso de la sociedad civil. Pese a las grandes diferencias entre esas organizaciones, comparten aspectos fundamenta…
Instrument constituencies and epistemic community theory
This contribution fleshes out the insights that the epistemic community (EC) approach can make to studying the public policy process and to how policy instruments are formulated and implemented. This contribution places the EC concept in the context of how policy instruments evolve and are supported by a separate network type, the instrument constituency (IC). It studies the conceptual differences between the EC and IC, analyses the conceptual pr…
Is the trajectory of European Union environmental policy less certain
The core themes and research questions of this volume, centred on the nature of environmental policy change in the European Union (EU), are laid out. An original heuristic framework to capture different dimensions, mechanisms and processes of policy change is presented. In order to contextualise the current situation, where EU policy scope has reached maturity and faces an uncertain future trajectory, EU environmental politics is divided into par…
De-Europeanising or disengaging? EU environmental policy and Brexit
The European Union (EU) has had a profound effect upon its members’ environmental policy. Even in the United Kingdom (UK), the EU’s most recalcitrant member state (historically labeled the ‘Dirty man of Europe’), environmental policy has been Europeanised. As the UK moves to the EU’s exit door it is timely to assess the utility of Europeanisation for understanding policy dynamics in the UK. Drawing upon interviews and extensive engagement with st…
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