Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Alberton Mariachiara
    Environmental Protection in the EU Member States: Changing Institutional Scenarios and Trends
    in Europe en formation (L') , n. 363, 2012/1 ,  2012 ,  287-300
    The environmental challenges that the EU and EU Member States’ (EU MS) policy-makers and legislators confront have changed considerably over the last decades, as new and dramatic environmental problems have arisen. The public favour accorded to the ecosystem has increased, roles and capacities of institutional actors have been reconfigured and the influence of opposing global and local instances have become stronger. While environmental policy and law shifts may share a common basis in terms of rise, development and fall in the EU, the analysis of EU MS governments, as forms of constitutionalized divisions of power, institutional configurations and variances in intra-institutional relations, may reveal noticeable insights affecting environmental protection effectiveness within the MS systems, despite the EU common framework. Moreover, this preliminary study may offer an interesting and divergent insight into the general decentralisation trend observed in the EU MS.
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