Joanne Caddy

Abstract This article focuses upon the problem of policy co-ordination and employs an account of co-ordination between technical systems developed by Fritz W. Scharpf (Scharpf 1994) as the framework within which to explore multi-level environmental policy-making between the European Union (EU) and the countries of Central Europe (CE). Current EU-CE environmental policy co-ordination is characterized as relying upon techniques of technical unification (or ‘one-way harmonization’) and processes of hierarchical imposition (reflected in ‘asymmetrical policy relations’). The article concludes by reviewing the potential advantages of ‘policy interface’ techniques and ‘negotiation-based’ co-ordination processes within the EU-CE environmental policy relationship.

Defence date: 12 June 1998Examining board: Prof. Adrienne Héritier (EUI - supervisor) ; Prof. Johan P. Olsen (University of Oslo) ; Prof. Philippe C. Schmitter (EUI) ; Dr. Anna Vári (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 201

Defence date: 12 June 1998Examining board: Prof. Adrienne Héritier (EUI - supervisor) ; Prof. Johan P. Olsen (University of Oslo) ; Prof. Philippe C. Schmitter (EUI) ; Dr. Anna Vári (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 201

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The timely and effective implementation of policy responses to environmental change in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) is a significant challenge given their lack of appropriate institutional structures, expertise and financial resources. Poor or nonimplementation by CEECs, in turn, undermines efforts to address common environmental security threats on a pan-European basis.