The Impact of the Economic Crisis on European Union Environmental Policy

Burns, Charlotte; Tobin, Paul

doi:10.1111/jcms.12396

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“…Third, whilst still speculative it is also timely to assess how far such disequilibria affect the integration process and the EU environmental sector. A growing scholarship suggests that the EU may not be dismantling its environmental policy, but there is a greater rhetorical drive to 'fight red tape' and moderate environmental ambitions that may have long-term consequences (Burns and Tobin 2016;Gravey and Jordan 2016;Steinebach and Knill 2017). The contributions assembled here explore the nature and trajectory of EU environmental policy in this more uncertain context.…”

Section: The Uncertain Future: 2008 and Beyondmentioning

confidence: 99%

Voluntary instruments for ambitious objectives? The experience of the EU Covenant of Mayors

Domorenok

2019

Environmental Politics

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The core themes and research questions of this volume, centred on the nature of environmental policy change in the European Union (EU), are laid out. An original heuristic framework to capture different dimensions, mechanisms and processes of policy change is presented. In order to contextualise the current situation, where EU policy scope has reached maturity and faces an uncertain future trajectory, EU environmental politics is divided into particular eras, looking closely at the nature of change in each period. This volume interrogates the extent to which change has occurred, the conditions or context within which it did/did not take place and the implications arising from stasis or change. The contributions to the volume are introduced and placed into the context of the broader trajectory of EU environmental policy.

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Section: The Uncertain Future: 2008 and Beyondmentioning

confidence: 99%

Voluntary instruments for ambitious objectives? The experience of the EU Covenant of Mayors

Domorenok

2019

Environmental Politics

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“…Here, the underlying mechanism is that footloose investors relocate their polluting industries to 'pollution havens' in parts of the world where the environmental standards are less strict. This can induce governments to deliberately lower their standards to a level below what is possible given the available technology ('race to the bottom'), or to maintain their standards and not to increase them further ('regulatory chill') (Bernauer & Caduff, 2004;Burns & Tobin, 2016;Dong, Gong, & Zhao, 2012). In these circumstances, we expect economic considerations to be the main driver of disproportionate policy responses, which are primarily motivated by the desire of policymakers to attain other (in our case, 'non' climate) policy goals.…”

Section: The Causes Of Disproportionate Policy Responsesmentioning

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Proportionate and disproportionate policy responses to climate change: core concepts and empirical applications

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Tosun

Jordan

2017

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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A fresh perspective on policy-making and planning has emerged which views disproportionate policy as an intentional policy response. A disproportionate policy response is understood to be a lack of 'fit' or balance between the costs of a public policy and the benefits that are derived from this policy, and between policy ends and means. This paper applies this new perspective on the proportionality of policy-making to the area of climate change. The first part of the paper discusses the underlying causes of disproportionate policy responses in broad terms and then applies the theoretical reasoning to understand the conditions in which they are likely to appear in relation to climate change. These conditions are hypothesized to relate to four main factors: economic considerations; levels of public demand; focusing events; and strategic considerations. It concludes with the suggestion that societal actors may be able to manipulate these four factors to encourage politicians to adopt policies that mitigate climate change more rapidly than is currently the case in most countries. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…The third issueenvironmental protectionis chosen for three main reasons: first, environmental issues (e.g. climate change) are pressing nowadays; second, the EU plays a prominent role in this field; and, third, besides not being directly crisis-related, the economic crisis has had an impact on it (Burns and Tobin, 2016).…”

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The odd couple: analyzing United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and Italian Five Stars Movement’s (FSM’s) European Union (EU)-opposition in the European Parliament (EP)

Carlotti

2017

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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Since the late 2000s economic and immigration crises are testing the European Union (EU). Such challenges have opened up a period of radical change for the EU, among them, the Brexit referendum that will radically change EU’s geography. This turmoil is mirrored by the last European Parliament (EP) election results; extreme right- and left-wing parties succeeded in the electoral competition at the expense of their mainstream counterpart. These forces are generally labelled as ‘Eurosceptic’, even though the literature still lacks a clear-cut definition of Euroscepticism. Starting from this observation, this paper reviews the conceptual evolution of Euroscepticism, stressing its pros and cons and proposes a reconceptualization of it in terms of EU-opposition such that the objects of criticism are clearly identified as the EU-policies, the EU-elite, the EU-regime, and the EU-community. The paper applies ‘EU-opposition’ to examine empirically the activity of two ‘Eurosceptic’ parties in the EP: the Italian Five Stars Movement (FSM) and the British United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), using the speeches they deliver in the arena of the EP as the main source of data. From the analysis, it can be seen that UKIP and FSM are an odd couple working in the same party group in the EP, and the concept of EU-opposition is able to better disentangle UKIP and FSM’s criticism of the EU.

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The Impact of the Economic Crisis on European Union Environmental Policy

Cited by 58 publications

References 30 publications

Voluntary instruments for ambitious objectives? The experience of the EU Covenant of Mayors

Voluntary instruments for ambitious objectives? The experience of the EU Covenant of Mayors

Proportionate and disproportionate policy responses to climate change: core concepts and empirical applications

The odd couple: analyzing United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and Italian Five Stars Movement’s (FSM’s) European Union (EU)-opposition in the European Parliament (EP)

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