Bulletin n. 3/2014
February 2015
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
    • Stead Dominic
    Rescaling Environmental Governance – the Influence of European Transnational Cooperation Initiatives
    in European Environment/Environmental Policy and Governance , Volume 24, Issue 5, September-October ,  2014 ,  324-337
    The increasing transboundary nature of many environmental problems has not only elevated the importance of international environmental governance it has also contributed to shifts in the scales at which these problems are addressed and at which environmental programmes are implemented. The result is that environmental governance is experiencing rescaling which often involves a combination of changes including shifts in powers to other layers of decision-making, the emergence of new scales of policy intervention and alternative forms of intervention, and the appearance of new actor constellations. The emergence of ‘soft’ policy and programming spaces – multi-area sub-regions in which strategy is being made between or alongside formal institutions and decision-making processes – is another phenomena associated with rescaling. This paper charts the rescaling of environmental governance in part of Europe – the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) – and examines the influence of European macro-regional cooperation initiatives on the changing nature of environmental governance in the region.
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