EU Environmental Policies in Subnational Regions

This title was first published in 2001: Moving away from traditional state-centrist accounts of why there is an implementation deficit of EU environmental policies, this book provides a detailed comparison of the formal and practical implementation of environmental directives in Scotland and Bavaria. It not only compares performances between the two regions and their respective states, but also highlights the substantial differences between regional and national determinants, thereby showing how regional processes have a significant influence on the effectiveness of EU environmental policies. In doing so, it presents a more refined picture of the EU environmental policy reality.