Environment and the nation state
Subtitle: the Netherlands, the EU, and acid rain
By: Duncan Liefferink.
Series: Issues in environmental politics
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Air -- Pollution -- Government policy -- Netherlands.; Acid rain -- Government policy -- Netherlands.; Air -- Pollution -- Government policy -- European Union countries.; Acid rain -- Government policy -- European Union countries.
Description: With the European Union's increasing powers its environmental legislation has grown rapidly. In this new study Duncan Liefferink investigates the dynamics of the 'Europeanisation' of environmental policy and concludes that the domestic environmental policies of relatively 'green' Member States are actually hardly affected.

An in-depth case study focuses on policy-making in the field of air pollution and acidification between the (former) European Community and one Member State, the Netherlands. Included in the book is a concise history of EC environmental policy, an explanation of the theories of sovereignty, European integration and power-dependence, and final commentary on the future of environmental policy in the European Union.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-218) and index.
"This book started as a dissertation, presented at Wageningen Agricultural University in the spring of 1995"--Pref.