Environmental Regulation in a Federal System: Framing Environmental Policy in the European Union

Environmental Regulation in a Federal System: Framing Environmental Policy in the European Union
ISBN-10
1781952906
ISBN-13
9781781952900
Category
Science
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
2002-01-01
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Author
Tim Jeppesen

Description

'An imaginative book that contributes significantly to the debate on regulatory federalism. The even-handed approach should appeal to a broad audience, including academics, policymakers, and the general reader interested in the optimal institutional arrangements for the provisioning of public goods.' - John A. List, University of Maryland, College Park, US In this important book Tim Jeppesen investigates environmental regulation in a federal system and addresses the underlying question of whether regulation should be decided centrally, by EU institutions, or de-centrally, by individual member states. Whilst simple economic reasoning presumes that transboundary externalities require central solutions and local externalities need local solutions, the author finds that the real answer is much more complicated.

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