European Environmental Policy

East and West

1st Edition - July 16, 1981
Author: Josef Füllenbach
Editor: François Duchêne
Language: English
eBook ISBN:
9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 6 2 0 6 - 5

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European Environmental Policy: East and West focuses on areas of cooperation between Eastern and Western Europe in the field of environmental protection. This text explores the various economic and political circumstances in East and West within which the environmental problem arises, and which will determine the possibilities of reaching a solution. This book also examines results and opportunities still open for East-West environmental cooperation. This text has 10 chapters and begins with a brief presentation of the problem areas, followed by a survey of existing legislative and organizational arrangements. The next chapters analyze the forms of environmental cooperation practiced in Comecon countries; the influence of the structural characteristics of socialist economic integration on collaboration in the environmental field; and the causes of environmental problems that are specific to East and West. The limitations and possibilities of cooperation between East and West are then discussed, with emphasis on sub-regional cooperation between those countries faced with a specific transnational pollution problem, namely, the countries bordering the Baltic and the river Danube. This book will be of interest to planners and decision makers involved in environmental policy and protection, especially in Europe.

ForewordPart 1 IntroductionPart 2 Environmental Policy and Action in Eastern Europe Chapter 1 Environmental Problems and Their Solutions at National Level 1.1 The German Democratic Republic (DDR) 1.2 Environmental Problems and Their Attempted Solution in Czechoslovakia 1.3 Environmental Problems and Their Attempted Solution in Poland 1.4 Environmental Problems and Their Attempted Solution in the USSR Chapter 2 Environmental Co-operation in CMEA (Comecon) 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Environmental Co-operation between Individual Comecon Members 2.3 Environmental Co-operation at Comecon LevelPart 3 Economic System and Environmental Protection Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Causes of Environmental Damage 4.1 Causes Which are Not Determined by the Economic System 4.2 Price as a Cause of Environmental Problems 4.3 Ideological Prejudices 4.4 The Primacy of Production Chapter 5 Instruments of Environmental Policy 5.1 'Moral Persuasion' 5.2 Economic Measures for Environmental Protection 5.3 Environmental Instruments under Socialism Chapter 6 ConclusionsPart 4 East-West Co-operation in Environmental Protection Chapter 7 Introduction Chapter 8 Basic Considerations of East-West Environmental Cooperation Chapter 9 Bilateral Environmental Co-operation between East and West 9.1 Examples 9.2 Cross-Border Environmental Problems between the Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic Chapter 10 Multilateral Environmental Co-operation between East and West 10.1 The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) 10.2 The United Nations' Economic Commission for Europe 10.3 Relations between Comecon and the EEC 10.4 Selected Multinational Problems of Environmental Policy in East-West RelationsPart 5 ConclusionsPart6 PostscriptAppendixBibliographyIndex of PersonsSubject Index