Ecological Modernization, Environmental Policy and Employment. Can Environmental Protection and Employment be Reconciled?

2000 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Marx
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Ecological Modernization

8. Industrial Society and Beyond

2021 ◽  
pp. 167-186
Author(s):  
John S. Dryzek
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Ecological Modernization ◽  
Policy Performance

Countries such as Denmark, Finland, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland have apparently turned in some of the most successful environmental policy performance in recent decades. The reason has much to do with their adoption of ecological modernization discourse. This discourse is most at home in prosperous consensual democracies, though it has spread to many countries, including developing ones, as well as to global governance. Ecological modernization sees environmental protection and conservation implemented by government as good for business, and so economic growth. The slogan “pollution prevention pays” is prominent. Ecological modernization is largely a moderate technocratic discourses that stresses green re-tooling of the capitalist economy, though more radical “strong” versions exist that would contemplate thoroughgoing structural change that moves beyond the liberal capitalist status quo.

Environmental Policy and the Economic Crisis

2018 ◽  
pp. 111-132
Author(s):  
Jakob Skovgaard ◽  
Roger Hildingsson ◽  
Bengt Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Ecological Modernization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
International Pressure ◽  
The Government

This chapter employs qualitative analysis to apply the Index of Policy Activity (IPA) to climate policy in Sweden and Demark—two countries often identified as environmental leaders. It finds that the economic crisis that started in 2007–8 had substantial impacts in both states. However, Denmark, which was hit harder and for a much longer period of time than Sweden, witnessed more dismantling of its environmental policy. The analysis suggests that in both countries the political orientation of the government and changes of government proved to be key factors shaping policy ambition. Path dependence, manifested in an entrenched commitment to ecological modernization, helped to maintain support for progressive environmental policy. International pressure was also central in pushing Sweden in particular to express leadership and to promote ambitious climate policy.

scholarly journals Sufficiency of Investments in Environmental Policy of Mining Region

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 02019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludmila Starikova ◽  
Irina Trapeznikova
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Financial Assets ◽  
Capital Investments ◽  
Research Development ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Real Costs

Since 2005, expenditures on research, development and technological work (R & D) have been allocated in the structure of investments in non-financial assets. The absence of methodological developments on a comprehensive analysis of indicators of environmental and economic efficiency does not allow us to clearly determine the real costs of creating a system of rational nature use and environmental protection. In order to, at least approximately estimate the necessary level of investment in the restoration of the environment, it is necessary to conduct a study of the relationship between investment and environmental activities through the interrelationship between the concepts of "investment" and "capital investments".

scholarly journals Thirty Years of Economics at the Environmental Protection Agency

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 436-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Al McGartland
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Cost Analysis ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Protection Agency ◽  
Benefit Cost Analysis ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
Benefit Cost ◽  
Over Time

When the modern era of environmental policy began with creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and passage of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, economists and economics were little used. Over time, economics became a major contributor to formation of environmental policy. Executive Order 12291 pushed economics into the policy process but also rendered benefit-cost analysis controversial. I report on economics’ role in the policy process over time and examine contributions by economists to environmental policymaking. Advancing benefit-cost analysis is an obvious contribution. I describe other areas in which economists have contributed and highlight milestones for economics at EPA.

scholarly journals Corruption, environmental regulation and market entry

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit K. Biswas ◽  
Marcel Thum
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Market Entry ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Environmental Standards ◽  
The Government ◽  
Polluting Firms

AbstractThe authors develop a simple analytical framework to study the welfare-maximizing environmental standards when market entry is endogenous and firms can circumvent regulation by bribing corrupt officials. Corruption changes the tradeoff in environmental policy. Corruption leads more polluting firms to enter into the market, which requires tighter environmental regulation. However, corruption also makes trading in some environmental protection for a marginally higher market entry optimal for the government.

scholarly journals Institutional changes in Hungarian environmental policy between 1998 and 2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-50
Author(s):  
Emőke Kiss ◽  
István Fazekas
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
The Past ◽  
Institutional System ◽  
The Government

Abstract A country’s economic situation, its political establishment, and the prevailing environmental conditions have a significant impact on the institutional system required for efficient environmental protection measures. During our work, we reviewed the institutional changes and legislation regarding environmental protection which have occurred over the past 20 years as well as the role of changes in the government. In summary, it can be concluded that significant changes occurred during the past two decades. The names, organizational structures, operations, and scopes of ministries have undergone regular changes over the years. In Hungary, there has been no separate ministry of the environment since 2010, and this area is regulated only on the state secretary level. In contrast, in the V4 countries and the Carpathian Basin, environmental protection is regulated on the ministry level.

scholarly journals Strategic Directions of Environmental Management in the Region

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Serh. Pakulina
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Environmental Strategy ◽  
Gradual Improvement ◽  
Environmental Situation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Environmental Activities

In the article the author scientifically justified the choice of strategic directions of environmental activities in the region, which provide the formation of a real trend of gradual improvement of the environmental situation. The author uses a variety of methodological tools. The tools include methods of analysis, generalization, design, statistical methods. Aggravation of environmental problems requires regionalization of environmental policy, regulation and management of natural resources in the long term. Currently, the need to develop an effective strategy for environmental protection in the region is being actualized. Environmental consequences of economic activity arise and manifest themselves in a particular area. The local nature of anthropogenic impact on the processes of reproduction of natural resources and the state of the environment require the search for ways to effectively solve environmental problems, taking into account the characteristics of natural factors and conditions of the territory. It is necessary to analyze the specifics of the production and spatial structure of the regional production complex. The development of the environmental strategy provides for the definition of the environmental mission of the region and its ecological image of the future. When developing the strategy, priority environmental goals and objectives are selected. These tasks are then detailed in specific environmental programs. Further, the mechanism of their implementation is developed, the analysis and evaluation of the results and consequences of the implementation of programs are carried out. At the same time, the ecological mission of the region and its ecological image of the future are based on the analysis of internal and external factors that affect the formation of the ecological situation in the region. Further opportunities and threats for ensuring ecological safety of development of regional economy and habitat of people are revealed. The authors consider the regional environmental program as the main tool for planning, forecasting and practical implementation of regional environmental policy. The regional environmental programme facilitates the coordination of environmental activities in the region. Regional programs are developed within the framework of long-term forecasting and include strategic interests of Ukraine. The conditions of implementation of the environmental strategy in the region and the problems of creating economic tools to stimulate environmental protection measures, modern legal support of environmental policy are analyzed. The authors identify the features of financing environmental activities in Ukraine and explore innovative aspects of environmental safety of the national economy. The researchers revealed the place of the ecological subsystem in the structure of programs of socio-economic development of the region, analyzed the basic methodological and methodical bases of formation of the strategy of environmental protection in the region. The authors scientifically justified the choice of strategic directions of environmental activities in the region, which provide the formation of a real trend of gradual improvement of the environmental situation. The recommendations on improving the management mechanism of the regional ecological and economic system are substantiated.

scholarly journals LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION POLICY IN THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND. SELECTED ISSUES

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (50) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Paweł Kamiński ◽  
Ilona Radziwon-Kamińska ◽  
Agnieszka Targońska
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Main Tool ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Protection Policy ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
Environmental Protection Policy ◽  
The Republic ◽  
National Environmental ◽  
National Environmental Policy

Environmental protection policy is a multi-faceted issue which interests researchers in different branches of knowledge. The implementation of solutions of the environmental protection may take different forms among which are legal instruments. One of those legal instruments is the environmental protection policy. The aim of this article is to analyse this policy and to evaluate its functioning in the Republic of Poland as one of the public policies. Furthermore, a crucial part of this article is to define the environmental protection policy, national environmental policy and its legal bases. What is more, the article will present the analysis of purposes, directions and areas included in the Polish National Environmental Policy - 2030. To make this analysis complete it is required to indicate symptoms of the sustainable development in the environmental protection policy. As a main tool of consideration, the dogmatic-legal method, has been used. The analysis of the main topic consists of legal acts and literature on the subject (containing Polish and foreign scientific publications).

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