Capacity Building in National Environmental Policy

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. The Political System’s Capacity for Environmental Policy: The Framework for Comparison

   • Martin Jänicke

   Pages 1-18

3. Environmental Capacity Building in Australia

   • Elim Papadakis

   Pages 19-43

4. Austria: An “Eco-Land”?

   • Christof Amann, Marina Fischer-Kowalski

   Pages 45-68

5. Brazil

   • Kathryn Hochstetler

   Pages 69-95

6. Environmental Protection Capacity in Post-Communist Bulgaria

   • Susan Baker

   Pages 97-122

7. Canada

   • Robert C. Paehlke

   Pages 123-145

8. National Environmental Policies: Costa Rica

   • Eduardo Silva

   Pages 147-175

9. The Czech Republic

   • Adam Fagin

   Pages 177-200

10. Environmental Capacity Building in France

    • Corinne Larrue

    Pages 201-218

11. Hungary

    • Joanne Caddy, Anna Vári

    Pages 219-238

12. Environmental Capacity-Building: India’s Democratic Politics and Environmental Management

    • Arun Agrawal, Noriko Yokozuka

    Pages 239-259

13. Italy

    • Bruno Dente, Rodolfo Lewanski

    Pages 261-285

14. Morocco

    • Marie Fauconnet, Peter Knoepfel

    Pages 287-309

15. Environmental Capacity in Mexico: An Assessment

    • Stephen P. Mumme, Donna Lybecker

    Pages 311-327

16. New Zealand

    • Ton Bührs

    Pages 329-346

17. Environmental Policy in Poland

    • Magnus Andersson

    Pages 347-373

18. Taiwan

    • Ching-Ping Tang, Shui-Yan Tang

    Pages 375-392

19. Environmental Capacity Building in Vietnam

    • Le Thac Can

    Pages 393-407

20. Summary: Environmental Capacity Building in a Converging World

    • Helmut Weidner, Martin Jänicke

    Pages 409-443

This book is the second collection of systematic case studies describing national environmental policies in 17 countries in terms of capacity building (see Appen­ dix). The OECD defines environmental capacity building as "a society's ability to identify and solve environmental problems. " While various institutions, including UNEP, FAO, World Bank and OECD, have hitherto used the terms environmental capacity and capacity building almost exclusively with reference to developing countries, we have extended the concepts to industrialized countries, as well. The first collection, edited by Martin Janicke, Helge Joergens (both Free University Berlin) and Helmut Weidner (Social Science Research Center Berlin), was pub­ lished in 1997 under the title "National Environmental Policies - A Comparative Study of Capacity-Building" (Berlin, etc. : Springer Verlag). It included 13 studies of countries. As in the first volume, chapter I presents the conceptual framework underlying the national case studies. It is a slightly shorter version of the corresponding chap­ ter in volume I. The design of all case studies in the two volumes is largely con­ gruent with this conceptual framework. Although the various sections of the stud­ ies do not always have identical titles and subtitles, the central elements of the capacity-building approach have been applied in all cases.

• Capacity Development
• Environmental Politics
• Umweltpolitik
• Umweltschutz
• development
• environment
• environmental change
• environmental management
• environmental policy
• environmental protection
• environmental sciences
• global environmental change
• globale Umweltveränderungen
• innovation
• sustainable development

• Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Berlin, Germany

  Helmut Weidner

• Forschungsstelle für Umweltpolitik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Martin Jänicke

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