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Chapter 22
Making and Implementing Environmental Policy

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The policy perspective

  • It all starts with a problem

  • The four stages of policy making

  • Policy instruments

  • Evaluation of policy instruments

  • Which policy instrument to choose?

  • Outlook Box 22.1 Building capacity for environmental policy


The policy-makers – politicians and citizen organisations

  • Civil society – the role of citizens

  • Science

  • Media

  • Review Box 22.2 Environmental non-governmental organisations, NGOs, in the Baltic Sea region

  • Environmental organisations and the green movement

  • The core of national policy making – the parliaments

  • Review Box 22.3 Green parties in the Baltic Sea region


Implementing environmental policy

  • The government level – ministries and environmental protection agencies

  • Review Box 22.4 The role of municipalities in environmental work

  • The role of local and regional authorities

  • Permits, inspection, and control


Environment and the transition in Central and Eastern Europe

  • Environmental trends

  • Review Box 22.5 Blocking environmental protection in socialist countries

  • The role of the market economy

  • Institutional capacity

  • The role of environmental NGOs and the general public

  • Experiences from Poland


Financing environmental policy

  • Environmental investments

  • Economic instruments for environmental investments

  • Environmental assistance to Eastern Europe