TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vig,Norman J.
AU  - Faure,Michael Gebert
TI  - Green Giants?: Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union
T2  - American and Comparative Environmental Policy Series
SN  - 9780262285544
AV  - GE180.G735 2004 
U1  - 363.7/00973 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Environmental policy -- United States
KW  - Environmental policy -- European Union countries
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- I - Comparing Policy Trends: Divergence or Convergence? -- 1 -  The Precautionary Principle, Risk Assessment, and the Comparative Role of Science in the European Community and the US Legal Systems -- 2 - The Roots of Divergence: A European Perspective -- 3 - Convergence, Divergence, and Complexity in US and European Risk Regulation -- II - Regulatory Trends: Institutional and Policy Innovations -- 4 - Environmental Federalism in the United States and the European Union -- 5 - Implementation of Environmental Policy and Law in the United States and the European Union -- 6 - Convergence or Divergence in the Use of "Negotiated Environmental Agreements" in European and US Environmental Policy: An Overview -- 7 - What Future for Environmental Liability? The Use of Liability Systems for Environmental Regulation in the Courtrooms of the United States and the European Union -- III - Policy Divergence on Global Issues -- 8 - The Climate Change Divide: The European Union, the United States, and the Future of the Kyoto Protocol -- 9 -  Trade and the Environment in the Global Economy: Contrasting European and American Perspectives -- 10 -  International Development Assistance and Burden Sharing -- 11 - Sustainable Development: Comparative Understandings and Responses -- IV - Transnational Networks and Dialogue -- 12 - Emerging Transnational Policy Networks: The European Environmental Advisory Councils -- 13 - The Transatlantic Environmental Dialogue -- V - Conclusions -- 14 - Conclusion: The Necessary Dialogue -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index
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