内容

目次

Part 1 Introduction - the impact of the pioneers on EU environmental thenew member states; the importance and role of pioneers in environmentalpolicy-making; the role of domestic politics in EU policy-making;understanding the domestic polity; strategies at the European level; bringingthe two levels together - the dynamics of the pioneers; the contents of thebook. Part 2 Sweden - setting a good example, Annica Kronsell: perceptions ofenvironmental issues; the basic characteristics of the institutional context;Swedish political traditions and environmental policy; the relationshipbetween the economy and the environment; foreign environmental policy; theinstitutional context and policy style in foreign environmentalpolicy-making; the debate about EU membership; concluding remarks. Part 3Austria - a latecomer becoming pioneer, Volkmar Lauber: general environmentalpolicy context; foreign environmental policy; list of abbreviations. Part 4Finland - from local to global politics, Marko Joas: a short history ofFinnish environmental policies and politics; institutions in theenvironmental policy field; the environmental agenda today; Finland's foreignenviromental policy agenda; foreign (environmental) policy institutions; EUmembership and environmental policy; conclusions. Part 5 Germany - domesticobstacles to an international forerunner, Heinrich Pehle: a short review ofthe development of environmental policy; institutional background; thetension between ecology and economy; main points of German foreignenvironmental policy; the institutional foundation of foreign environmentalpolicy; Germany and the environmental policy of the European Union. Part 6The Netherlands - a net exporter of environmental policy concepts, DuncanLiefferink: environmental problems and policies in the Netherlands - anoverview; the institutional context; environment and economy in theNetherlands - an evolving relationship; the foreign environmental policyagenda; the institutional setting of foreign environmental policy; theNetherlands, European integration and environmental policy; concludingremarks. Part 7 Denmark - the shadow of the green majority, Mikael SkouAndersen: environmental problems and policies in Denmark - an overview;institutional context; the economy and the environment; foreign environmentalpolicy agenda; institutional framework for international environmentalpolicy; the EU debate. Part 8 Norway - a case of "splendid isolation", MaritReitan: the national agenda; the institutional context; the integration ofthe environment and the economy; the foreign environmental policy agenda; theinstitutional context of foreign environmental policy; European integrationand environmental policy; concluding remarks.policy, Mikael Skou Andersen andDuncan Liefferink.