Green giants?
Subtitle: environmental policies of the United States and the European Union
By: edited by Norman J. Vig and Michael G. Faure.
Contributors: Vig, Norman J.; Faure, Michael
Series: American and comparative environmental policy
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780262220682; 9780262720441
Subjects: Environmental policy -- United States; Environmental policy -- European Union countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The precautionary principle, risk assessment, and the comparative role of science in the European community and the US legal systems / Theofanis Christoforou; title: The roots of divergence: a European perspective / Ludwig Krämer; title: Convergence, divergence, and complexity in US and European risk regulation / Jonathan B. Wiener; title: Environmental federalism in the United States and the European Union / R. Daniel Kelemen; title: Implementation of environmental policy and the law in the United States and the European Union / Christoph Demmke; title: Convergence or divergence in the use of "negotiated environmental agreements" in the European and US environmental policy: an overview / David J. E. Grimeaud; title: What future for environmental liability? The use of liability systems for environmental regulation in the courtrooms of the United States and the European Union / Timothy Swanson and Andreas Kontoleon; title: The climate change divide: the European Union, the United States, and the future of the Kyoto Protocol / Miranda A. Schreurs; title: Trade and the environment in the global economy: contrasting European and American perspectives / David Vogel; title: International development assistance and burden sharing / Paul G. Harris; title: Sustainable development: comparative understandings and responses / Susan Baker and John McCormick; title: Emerging transnational policy networks: the European environmental advisory councils / Richard Macrory and Ingeborg Niestroy; title: The Transatlantic environmental dialogue / Carl Lankowski; title: The necessary dialogue / Michael G. Faure and Norman J. Vig.