{"title":"Political evolution of EMAS: Perspectives from the EU, national governments and industrial groups","authors":"J. Franke","doi":"10.1002/EET.3320050602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/EET.3320050602","url":null,"abstract":"The adoption of the eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS) in 1993 by the Council of Ministers was preceded by controversial debates. The European Commission presented EMAS in 1990 as a mandatory scheme. Industry responded in unison and rejected the compulsory nature of the scheme strongly. When the Commission decided to change the scheme into a voluntary standard, the response of industry became diverse. Industry in general welcomed EMAS as it saw it as a means to improve its image; German industry, however, continued to oppose the scheme. Its criticism was that the scheme did not take into account different emission standards which have to be achieved in different countries. Another important reason was that the management-oriented scheme does not correspond well to the German approach to handling environmental problems. German companies are more technology-oriented. An active advocate of EMAS was the UK. As the UK had taken the lead on environmental management systems and environmental auditing, it was keen to push these concepts throughout Europe.","PeriodicalId":374097,"journal":{"name":"European Environment","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125403254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Process modelling and sustainability assessment in the development of the sustainable community","authors":"M. Reed","doi":"10.1002/EET.3320050606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/EET.3320050606","url":null,"abstract":"Following the UNCED Earth Summit in 1992 many local authorities are currently engaged in the development of a Local Agenda 21. Local Agenda 21 is concerned with the development of strategies, policies, practices, projects and partnerships which will cause a shift towards more sustainable modes of environmental, social and economic development. Kirklees Metropolitan Council in the UK is working in partnership with Sheffield Hallam University in the development of processes and tools which will facilitate moves towards sustainable development at the community level. These processes interface with local authority policy and practice through to national and European statutory frameworks. A process model for the sustainable community has been developed, from which sustainability assessment, a working tool for application, has been drawn out. Both the process model and the sustainability assessment technique incorporate the application of broad themes which relate to indicators of sustainability, facilitating a common ground for dialogue between all levels.","PeriodicalId":374097,"journal":{"name":"European Environment","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115401594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managing the environment in tourism regions: The case of the Canary Islands","authors":"C. León, Matías M. González","doi":"10.1002/EET.3320050605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/EET.3320050605","url":null,"abstract":"The relationships between environmental and economic systems in the Canary Islands have been conditioned by a development process based on the expansion of tourism. This paper focuses on the principal environmental problems resulting from the development process and how the local authorities are dealing with these problems. Environmental policy has been concentrated on managing land and water resources through direct regulation. Regulatory policy measures have not produced the expected results because their application has been uneven and incomplete. An attempt to introduce a systematic approach to environmental policy is the Environmental Action Plan 1995–2000. Although this plan has important advantages over the previous approach, it may fail because of the absence of a reliable system of quality indicators tpat would allow the objectives to be defined more precisely. A necessary condition for a sustainable development process would involve a substantial reduction in the dependency on exploiting natural resources to generate economic growth.","PeriodicalId":374097,"journal":{"name":"European Environment","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132035941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning the hard way: The EC and the eco-label","authors":"D. Mitchell","doi":"10.1002/EET.3320050604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/EET.3320050604","url":null,"abstract":"The Fifth Environmental Action Programme places great emphasis on the wider adoption of market mechanisms and the application of shared responsibility in environmental policy. The Eco-label scheme appears to embody these principles and as a consequence has received considerable political support. However, the Eco-label is now in disarray. Its evolution is traced and it is suggested that despite high levels of commitment to the Eco-label, policymakers have been unable to address the seemingly intractable issues associated with its practical introduction.","PeriodicalId":374097,"journal":{"name":"European Environment","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129286103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strengthening EU environmental policy implementation by fine tuning","authors":"M. Muijen","doi":"10.1002/EET.3320050603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/EET.3320050603","url":null,"abstract":"One of the assumed strengths of the European Union (EU) is its legislative character. Although this has aided the development of environmental policy in the past, the EU has broadened its mix of instruments fundamentally since the Fifth Environmental Action Programme to include market-based instruments, horizontal supporting instruments and financial support mechanisms alongside more traditional legislative instruments. The central thesis of this paper is that the use and effectiveness of these newly introduced instruments are primarily determined by and contingent on national factors. This means that the relationship between the characteristics of the instruments and the specific institutional context of the EU Member States influences the implementation of environmental aims. It is argued that the EU should anticipate this by facilitating the use of several instruments in changing combinations depending on, firstly, the nature of the environmental policy problem to be solved and, secondly, the policy styles of the Member States involved in that particular issue. The EU policy-making process should therefore not only opt for specifying the ends to be achieved and laid down in directives but, through negotiation with the implementing agencies, also specify the best ways of reaching those ends. In that way the discrepancy between the formal compliance and the actual implementation of EU directives could be overcome.","PeriodicalId":374097,"journal":{"name":"European Environment","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127703115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
European EnvironmentPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0976(199601)6:1<1::AID-EET57>3.0.CO;2-#
N. Robins
{"title":"STEERING EU DEVELOPMENT CO‐OPERATION TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY: THE CASE OF THE LOMÉ CONVENTION","authors":"N. Robins","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1099-0976(199601)6:1<1::AID-EET57>3.0.CO;2-#","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0976(199601)6:1<1::AID-EET57>3.0.CO;2-#","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":374097,"journal":{"name":"European Environment","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116444296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}