Global Competition and EU Environmental Policy

✍ Scribed by Jonathan Golub

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 232
• Series: Routledge/EUI Studies in Environmental Policy
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text examines the relationship between economic competitiveness and environmental protection in European Union policy. A team of academics and practitioners from the fields of law, political science and economics explore how this fear of a competitive disadvantage from high environmental regulatory standards has shaped the development of EU environmental policy. Exploring policy options which have been used in the past to reconcile competitiveness with environmental protection, the authors examine options which can offer a viable foundation for constructing the next generation of EU environmental policies. A range of international case studies addresses agreements and policies, including those dealing with ozone layer protection, pesticide exports, shipping climate change, agriculture, development assistance, and the environmental dimension of GATT/WTO.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 7
List of contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Global competition and EU environmental policy: introduction and overview......Page 12
EU policy for ozone layer protection......Page 45
Regulating exports of hazardous chemicals: the EU's external chemical safety policy......Page 71
Improving compliance with the international law of marine environmental protection: the role of the European Union......Page 96
The path to EU climate change policy......Page 119
EU environmental policy and the GATT/WTO......Page 153
The world trade dimension of 'greening' the EU's Common Agricultural Policy......Page 172
Competitiveness, environmental sustainability and the future of European Union development cooperation......Page 200
Index......Page 223