Environmental Cooperation In Europe The Political Dimension

Introduction -- Opening Remarks -- The Globalization of Environmental Problems -- Europe and the Atlantic Community in the Context of an Ecological World Order -- The State of the Global Environment: Is There a Need for an “Orderly Retreat”? -- Global Cooperation for Sustainable Development: Challenges to the North on the Road from Rio -- Economic and Institutional Capacities for International Environmental Cooperation -- Affluence and Scarceness: The Effect of Economic and Sociocultural Capacities on Environmental Cooperation -- Economic and Institutional Capacities for Environmental Cooperation -- International Negotiating Processes in the Environmental Field and Their Results -- Specific Characteristics of Environmental Diplomacy -- Critical Attributes of International Environmental Negotiations -- The Role of International Environmental Law -- Comments on the Objective of Regional International Environmental Law -- Regional Environmental Policies in Europe -- The Environmental Policy of the European Community -- Harmonization of the EC Environmental Policy After Maastricht -- East Central European Policy Making: The Case of the Environment -- The Central European Initiative -- Regional Environmental Policies in Europe: Baltic/Nordic Cooperation -- Comments on the Baltic/Nordic Cooperation -- Domestic Environmental Politics in a Comparative Perspective -- Domestic Environmental Politics in a Comparative Perspective: The Nordic Countries -- Drifting Countries: Politics and Environment in East Central Europe -- The Political Infrastructure of Environmental Politics in Western and Eastern Europe -- Domestic Environmental Politics in a Comparative Perspective: The Italian Case -- Environmental Policy: The Case of Austria