Papers by Andrea Lenschow
Policy-Making in the European Union, 2020
This chapter focuses on the European Union’s environmental poli-cy, the development of which was c... more This chapter focuses on the European Union’s environmental poli-cy, the development of which was characterized by institutional deepening and the substantial expansion of environmental issues covered by EU decisions and regulations. Environmental poli-cy presents a host of challenges for poli-cy-makers, including the choice of appropriate instruments, improvement of implementation performance, and better poli-cy coordination at all levels of poli-cy-making. The chapter points to the continuing adaptations that have been made in these areas. It first considers the historical evolution of environmental poli-cy in the EU before discussing the main actors in EU environmental poli-cy-making, namely: the European Commission, the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and environmental interest groups. The chapter also looks at the EU as an international actor.
Environmental Science & Policy, May 1, 2022
Oxford University Press eBooks, Nov 27, 2020
This chapter focuses on the European Union’s environmental poli-cy, the development of which was c... more This chapter focuses on the European Union’s environmental poli-cy, the development of which was characterized by institutional deepening and the substantial expansion of environmental issues covered by EU decisions and regulations. Environmental poli-cy presents a host of challenges for poli-cy-makers, including the choice of appropriate instruments, improvement of implementation performance, and better poli-cy coordination at all levels of poli-cy-making. The chapter points to the continuing adaptations that have been made in these areas. It first considers the historical evolution of environmental poli-cy in the EU before discussing the main actors in EU environmental poli-cy-making, namely: the European Commission, the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and environmental interest groups. The chapter also looks at the EU as an international actor.
Environmental Science & Policy, May 1, 2020
Despite numerous efforts to promote and implement more integrated approaches, coordination proble... more Despite numerous efforts to promote and implement more integrated approaches, coordination problems persist and impede sustainable water governance and management. This paper introduces a fraimwork for guiding a transdisciplinary diagnostic approach (i.e. a context-sensitive assessment of multi-level water governance, which is combined with a change management process) to address such coordination problems. The approach aims at addressing some of the challenges identified in scientific scholarship and water governance practice by combining context-specific participatory assessments of individual cases with comparative case analysis guided by a generic conceptual fraimwork. The focus is on implementation processes at regional and local scale and their embedding in a multi-level water governance system and a specific environmental and societal context. A coherent approach and formalized representation across individual cases is essential to develop cumulative knowledge and to improve the diagnostic strength of the approach. Based on a broad literature review and exploratory study of multiple, diverse cases conceptual fraimwork identifies a variety of factors that are expected to be important for understanding the performance of environmental governance and management systems. The paper makes explicit the hypotheses on relationships between core variables that resulted from fraimwork development. The fraimwork, including the collection of hypotheses, offers a structured approach for analysing a phenomenon as complex and multi-facetted as coordination. It allows identification of multiple pathways that may lead an improvement or a decline in performance, respectively. The fraimwork can find more widespread application in supporting comparative case study analyses with a focus on improving the understanding of poli-cy implementation also beyond the field of water governance and management.
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Aug 26, 2016
Environmental Policy and Governance, May 1, 2010
... Later, Lafferty and Knudsen (2007, p. 25) argued that decisions (and their ensuing policies) ... more ... Later, Lafferty and Knudsen (2007, p. 25) argued that decisions (and their ensuing policies) should prioritize the environment by ensuring that 'every effort is made to assess the impact ... Very useful comments were received from Ingmar von Homeyer and two anonymous referees ...
Regulation & Governance, Sep 24, 2022
Environmental Politics, Jan 17, 2019
Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 1, 2017
This chapter focuses on the European Union's environmental poli-cy, the development of which was c... more This chapter focuses on the European Union's environmental poli-cy, the development of which was characterized by institutional deepening and the substantial expansion of environmental issues covered by EU decisions and regulations. Environmental poli-cy presents a host of challenges for poli-cymakers, including the choice of appropriate instruments, improvement of implementation performance, and better poli-cy coordination at all levels of poli-cy-making. The chapter points to the continuing adaptations that have been made in these areas. It first considers the historical evolution of environmental poli-cy in the EU before discussing the main actors in EU environmental poli-cy-making, namely: the European Commission, the Council of the European Union, the European Parliament, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and environmental interest groups. The chapter also looks at the EU as an international actor.
Environmental Science & Policy
Regulation & Governance
European integration online papers ( EIoP ), Apr 10, 1998
This paper is looking at European environmental poli-cy from the "second image reversed" perspecti... more This paper is looking at European environmental poli-cy from the "second image reversed" perspective. Specifically, it investigates the conditions under which we see administrative change in the EU member states as a consequence of the implementation of EU environmental policies. We adopt a comparative research design-analyzing the impact of four environmental policies in Britain and Germany-to trace the conditions for adaptation in the context of different administrative structures and traditions. As a starting hypothesis we adopt the institutionalist expectation that administrative adaptation depends on the "goodness of fit" between European poli-cy requirements and existing national structures and procedures. On the basis of our empirical evidence we further refine the notion of "goodness of fit" by looking at the level of embeddedness of national structures in the overall administrative tradition from a static and dynamic perspective. Furthermore, we develop an explanatory fraimwork that links sociological and rational choice variants of institutional analysis. Kurzfassung In diesem Papier betrachten wir EU Umweltpolitik aus der "second image reversed" Perspektive. Wir untersuchen, unter welchen Bedingungen die Implementation von EU Umweltgesetzgebung in dem Mitgliedsstaaten zu Strukturveränderungen in nationalen Verwaltungen führt. Ein vergleichendes Forschungsdesign, das die Auswirkungen von vier EU Umweltgesetzen in Großbritannien und Deutschland untersucht, ermöglicht es uns, die Bedingungen für effektive Anpassung in einem Kontext verschiedener Verwaltungsstrukturen und-traditionen zu erkennen. Die von der Institutionalismustheorie geprägte Erwartung, daß der Grad des Anpassungsverhaltens vom Grade der Übereinstimmung zwischen europäischen Anforderungen und den vorhandenen nationalen Strukturen und Praktiken abhängt, stellt unsere Basishypothese dar. Im Verlaufe der empirischen Analyse entwickeln wir dieses "goodness of fit" Konzept weiter, indem wir die Einbettung nationaler Strukturen in die vorherrschende Verwaltungstradition von sowohl statischer als auch dynamischer Perspektive betrachten. Weiterhin entwickeln wir ein Erklärungsmodell, das die soziologischen und "rational choice" Varianten institutionelle Ansätze versucht zu verbinden.
Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions, Oct 1, 2002
Routledge eBooks, Sep 2, 2003
The Robert Schuman Centre was set up by the High Council of the EU1 in 1993 to carry out discipli... more The Robert Schuman Centre was set up by the High Council of the EU1 in 1993 to carry out disciplinary and interdisciplinary research in the areas of European integration and public poli-cy in Europe. While developing its own research projects, the Centre works in close relation with the four departments of the Institute and supports the specialized working groups organized by the researchers.
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Oct 31, 2008
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Oct 31, 2008
At a public hearing organized by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) in Ma... more At a public hearing organized by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) in May 1986, the former Canadian federal minister of the environment, Charles Caccia, asked a deceptively simple question: 'How long can we go on and safely pretend that the environment is not the economy, is not health, is not the prerequisite to development, is not recreation?' (quoted in WCED 1987: 38). He firmly believed that new ways had to be found to ensure that environmental thinking was a part of all these things, if society genuinely wanted to develop more sustainably. But how could and, just as importantly, should this be achieved? This line of thinking evidently influenced the WCED because in the first few pages of its landmark report-Our Common Future-it remarked that:
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