EU Environmental policy: adapting to the principle of subsidiarity?

Jordan, Andrew; Jeppesen, Tim

doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-0976(200003/04)10:2<64::aid-eet219>3.0.co;2-z

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“…When new environmental policies are advanced, their implementation usually adapts to such existing institutions. In many legal systems, including the European Union, the vertical power sharing is regulated by the principle of subsidiarity, which requires that action is taken at the lowest effective scale of governance [46,47]. More rarely, a new administrative level is created to better fit the management requirements of a particular environmental resource, such as the water basins authorities introduced by the EU Water Framework Directive, mentioned below in Section 2.4.…”

Section: Spatial Scale In Environmental Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial Scale Mismatches in the EU Agri-Biodiversity Conservation Policy. The Case for a Shift to Landscape-Scale Design

Falco

Feitelson

Dayan

2021

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Agriculture is a major driver of the ongoing biodiversity decline, demanding an urgent transition towards a system that reconciles productivity and profitability with nature conservation; however, where public policies promote such transitions are in place, their design often poorly fits the relevant biogeophysical systems, decreasing the policies’ expected effectiveness. Spatial scale mismatches are a primary example in this regard. The literature reviewed in this paper, drawing from both ecology and policy studies, suggests to foster policy implementation at the landscape scale, where most functional ecological processes—and the delivery of related ecosystem services—occur on farmland. Two strategies are identified for coordinating policy implementation at the landscape scale: the promotion of farmers’ collective action and the partition of space on an ecologically sound basis through spatial planning. As the new European Union Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post-2023 is currently being defined, we assess if and how the draft agri-biodiversity legislation includes any of the strategies above. We find no comprehensive uptake of the landscape-scale perspective at the EU level, thereby suggesting that a powerful tool to overcome the CAP underperformance on biodiversity is being overlooked.

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Section: Spatial Scale In Environmental Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial Scale Mismatches in the EU Agri-Biodiversity Conservation Policy. The Case for a Shift to Landscape-Scale Design

Falco

Feitelson

Dayan

2021

Land

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“…It should be noted that, in the practical dimension, the EU's environmental policy focuses on issues such as water and air pollution and landscape degradation. Jordan and Jeppesen also emphasized that environmental problems arise from industry-related activities, including the energy and transportation sector, or agriculture [25].…”

Section: Environmental Policy Integration (Epi)mentioning

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The Financing of Renewable Energy Sources and the Level of Sustainable Development of Poland’s Provinces in the Area of Environmental Order

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The overall purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of financing renewable energy sources on the assessment of sustainable development in Poland’s provinces. There are also two detailed objectives: (1) define how Polish policies are being passed on to local authorities; (2) realize a Poland’s provinces ranking, taking into account the indicators of sustainable development, thanks to the taxonomic measure of development in the area of environmental order. This study deals with the taxonomic assessment of local sustainable development in the local administration units of Poland. To this end, the methods of linear ordering were applied for the assessment of the level of objects differentiation with the use of a closed set of statistical features. The presented analysis proved that the taxonomic distances between synthetic measures for particular provinces are considerable. The highest values of the integrated measure in 2018 were obtained by the following provinces: Podlaskie, Subcarpathian and Lubusz. It is noteworthy to point to the big changes in the ranking between 2018 and 2016. The cluster analysis showed some progress in achieving the goals of sustainable development. The group of provinces with an average level of sustainable development in 2018 included six provinces compared to two provinces in 2016. Removing one indicator from the integrated measure (the financing of renewable energy sources (RES)) led to a moderate increase in the integrated measure across all the provinces. This implies that, on average, the financing of renewable energy sources exerts increasingly smaller impacts on the level of sustainable development in Poland.

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“…scientific expertise is to be used to legitimate regulation (Joerges 1996). Jordan and Jeppesen (2000) claim that the impact of the subsidiarity principle (which in general means that a larger organization or one on higher level of governance should not exercise functions which can be carried out efficiently or adequately by a smaller one or one on lower level of governance, e.g. EU and its member states) upon the process of European political integration is open to question.…”

Section: European Community Policies On Dioxins Furans and Pcbs And mentioning

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Risks and Management of Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds in Baltic Sea Fish: An Integrated Assessment

2006

TemaNord

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EU Environmental policy: adapting to the principle of subsidiarity?

Cited by 26 publications

References 15 publications

Spatial Scale Mismatches in the EU Agri-Biodiversity Conservation Policy. The Case for a Shift to Landscape-Scale Design

Spatial Scale Mismatches in the EU Agri-Biodiversity Conservation Policy. The Case for a Shift to Landscape-Scale Design

The Financing of Renewable Energy Sources and the Level of Sustainable Development of Poland’s Provinces in the Area of Environmental Order

Risks and Management of Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds in Baltic Sea Fish: An Integrated Assessment

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