Environmental Implications of Eastern Enlargement: The End of Progressive EU Environmental Policy?

Jehlička, Petr; Tickle, Andrew

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“…Normally, ideologically conformist phenomena associated with the socialistera have been viewed by the post-socialist elite as undesirable and worthless in terms of their potential as a source of policy innovation, while pre-socialist and socialist-era phenomena associated with resistance to state socialism have been instinctively perceived as valuable and potentially culturally and politically inspiring (Jehlička and Tickle, 2004). One of few areas to which this normative dichotomy does not apply is household food production, which as we argued in section 2, was a form of 'safe' resistance to the socialist system.…”

Section: Self-provisioning Of Many Commodities Is Very High the Febrmentioning

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An unsustainable state: Contrasting food practices and state policies in the Czech Republic

Jehlička

Smith

2011

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This paper brings together consideration of food policies and practices and of post-socialist transition to raise neglected questions about means of nurturing more sustainable food systems in the developed world. The last three decades have been marked by the growing salience of food as a political and scholarly concern. While market-based alternative food systems have been heralded for their potential to promote environmental sustainability, the benefits of non-market practices such as household food self-provisioning and barter have been assumed rather than being the focus of research. In the western context, both types of food consumption have positive connotations. Although food self-provisioning in European post-socialist societies is a more wide-spread practice than in western societies, it has been on the periphery of research. The existing literature has conceptualised them as 'coping strategies' or as a legacy of irregular supply of goods in the state socialist era.Drawing on empirical research in the Czech Republic, we are proposing a novel approach to the phenomenon of household food production in post-socialist societies as a practice compliant with principles of sustainability. First, we highlight the large extent and social inclusivity of food self-provisioning in Czech society to demonstrate how post-socialist societies are a repository of a rich set of sustainability-promoting consumption practices in relation to food systems. Second, we show that international and domestic policy actors in these societies have ignored these alternative, socially inclusive and environmentally effective practices in favour of far less effective 1 2 market-based sustainability oriented food policy initiatives. The paper promotes a more integrated view of non-market and market approaches in the pursuit of more sustainable food systems.

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Section: Self-provisioning Of Many Commodities Is Very High the Febrmentioning

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An unsustainable state: Contrasting food practices and state policies in the Czech Republic

Jehlička

Smith

2011

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“…First, as other analysts have noted, the subsumption of previous areas of environmental policy wholly within the process of EU accession can sometimes have malign effects (Jehlicka and Tickle, 2004), especially where domestic innovations are displaced and when accession processes falter. MoE offi cials are making the best of this diffi cult situation, hoping that the postponement 'will give us opportunity of having more SEA lessons from the practices in member countries ' (interview, 2007), but problems with European integration undermine the scope to apply any such learning.…”

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Europeanization, strategic environmental assessment and the impacts on environmental governance

Unalan

Cowell

2009

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Recent European Union (EU) directives in the environmental fi eld have promoted sustainable development alongside new modes of environmental governance for achieving this elusive goal. These modes are characterised by integrated, participatory and transparent decision-making processes. This paper provides a conceptual clarifi cation of this new environmental governance and then examines the extent to which it is being promoted, through Europeanization, in one of the impending south-eastern enlargement countries, Turkey. Empirical data is taken from an analysis of Turkey's progress in adopting the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive which -potentially at least -embodies features of the new environmental governance. A key fi nding is that there are close links between the adoption of the new modes of environmental governance and the power of 'Europeanization discourses' in national policy making processes, but these are insuffi cient to forge signifi cant changes in inter-sectoral working around environmental issues, or markedly expand opportunities for public participation.

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“…Membership of the EU delivered many positive benefits for the Central and East European (CEE) states in terms of organisational development and the extension of a wide range of opportunities and resources to environmental organisations and movements in particular (Jeli cka and Tickle 2004). This has much to do with the high approximation costs of compliance providing an incentive for post-socialist states to engage NGOs (He´retier and Lehmkuhl 2008).…”

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“…Many of the theoretical analyses seeking to explain mobilisation and the trajectory of environmental NGOs in the period leading up to and immediately following the collapse of socialist systems emphasised the presence of new opportunities, the ways in which international access and the availability or resources altered the domestic environmental landscape, and how membership in the EU both contributed to capacity as well as influenced the priorities and agendas of environmental movements and organisations (Baker and Jehli cka 1998, Jehli cka and Tickle 2004, VanDeveer and Carmin 2005. The contributors to this special issue explore the historical roots of, and investigate the ways in which, environmental movements and organisations have developed as their national political and social landscapes have been transformed, and as European and transnational influences have increased.…”

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Environmental mobilisation and organisations in post-socialist Europe and the former Soviet Union

Carmin

Fagan

2010

Environmental Politics

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How have environmental movements and organisations evolved in the two decades since the end of state socialism? Focusing upon how the impact of external forces, the core debates concern how changing political opportunities and access to resources as a consequence of European Union accession have impacted on environmental NGOs, as well as the effects more generally of contentious transnational assistance and tutelage offered to local activist networks by US and west European donors. Theoretical and conceptual debates regarding dependency and co-option, versus channelling and new governance, are examined. Have environmental actors and movements in these transitional states and new democracies aligned with the trajectory predicted by scholars 20 years ago? To what extent have longstanding environmental values, modes of political engagement and submerged networks buffered and even transmuted the impact? Why, and to what extent, do the movements and organisations of the region retain a distinctive character and profile?

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Environmental Implications of Eastern Enlargement: The End of Progressive EU Environmental Policy?

Cited by 27 publications

References 17 publications

An unsustainable state: Contrasting food practices and state policies in the Czech Republic

An unsustainable state: Contrasting food practices and state policies in the Czech Republic

Europeanization, strategic environmental assessment and the impacts on environmental governance

Environmental mobilisation and organisations in post-socialist Europe and the former Soviet Union

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