A 'sustainable' impact on the EU? An analysis of the making of the Fifth Environmental Action Programme
Author
Editor
- Stephen C. Young
Summary, in English
This chapter begins with the assumption that political organisations are stable institutions which contain biases to benefit certain issues and actors in society. The European Union’s Fifth Environmental Action Programme was finally adopted by the Council in February of 1993. The programme is entitled Toward Sustainability and will guide the European Union’s environmental legislation into the next century. Since the Fifth Environmental Action Programme was heavily influenced by the Dutch National Environmental Plan it was also natural that the key participants in the networks which developed were Dutch. The temporal sorting model was developed as a theory about decision-making. Agenda setting is a matter of making a decision about which issues are important. The chapter considers the political climate in which the streams flow. Since social movements are dispersed in society they do not have the same type of political impact as organised political forces.
Department/s
Publishing year
2000
Language
English
Pages
87-105
Publication/Series
The emergence of ecological modernisation : integrating the environment and the economy
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Routledge
Topic
- Political Science
Keywords
- EU
- environmental politics
- sustainable development
- policy making
- Commission
Status
Published
Research group
- Miljöpolitik
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 0-415-14173-7