Bas Arts

Institutional Dynamics in Environmental Governance

About the Authors. List of tables. List of figures.- 1. Institutional Dynamics in Environmental Governance Pieter Leroy and Bas Arts.- 2. Political Modernisation Bas Arts and Jan van Tatenhove.- 3. The Dynamics of Policy Arrangements: Turning Round the Tetrahedron Duncan Liefferink.-4. The Governance Capacity of (new) Policy Arrangements: a Reflexive Approach Bas Arts and Henri Goverde.- 5. The Institutional Dynamics of Water Management in the Low Countries Mark Wiering and Ann Crabbe.-6. High Noon in the Low Countries: Recent Nature Policy Dynamics in the Netherlands and in Flanders Dirk Bogaert and Jaap Gersie.- 7. Dynamics in Nature Policy Practices across the European Union Marielle van der Zouwen.- 8. Diffusion or Diversity in Cultural Heritage Preservation? Comparing Policy Arrangements in Norway, Arizona and the Netherlands Sara de Boer.- 9. Dutch Rural Policies at a Turning Point Froukje Boonstra.- 10. Regional Environmental Planning in the Netherlands: an Unstable Settlement of Policy Arrangements Frans J.G. Padt.- 11. Corporate Environmental Management in the Netherlands and in the Czech Republic Jacques Klaver and Emiel Ypma.- 12. A Target Group Approach in Flemish Environmental Policy: Establishing New Government-Industry Relations? Bruno Verbeeck and Pieter Leroy.- 13. Institutional Processes in Environmental Governance: Lots of Dynamics, not Much Change? Bas Arts and Pieter Leroy. Index.

Environmental Policy Convergence in Europe : the impact of international institutions and trade

Preface 1. Introduction Katharina Holzinger, Christoph Knill and Bas Arts 2. State of the art - conceptualising environmental policy convergence Katharina Holzinger, Helge Jorgens and Christoph Knill 3. Theoretical framework: causal factors and convergence expectations Katharina Holzinger and Christoph Knill 4. Research design, variables and data Stephan Heichel, Katharina Holzinger, Thomas Sommerer, Duncan Liefferink, Jessica Pape and Sietske Veenman 5. Degree and direction of environmental policy convergence: analysis of aggregate data Thomas Sommerer, Christoph Knill and Katharina Holzinger 6. The pair approach: what causes convergence of environmental policies? Thomas Sommerer, Katharina Holzinger and Christoph Knill 7. The gap approach: what affects the direction of environmental policy convergence? Bas Arts, Duncan Liefferink, Jelmer Kamstra and Jeroen Ooijevaar 8. Conclusion Christoph Knill, Katharina Holzinger and Bas Arts.

NGO Strategies and Influence in the Biosafety Arena, 1992–2005

Since the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1992, environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have been trying to influence the negotiation and implementation of a biosafety protocol to the CBD. In trying to impact on the outcomes of the biosafety negotiations, they have used several strategies, such as lobbying, advocacy and pressure. This chapter describes these strategies and assesses whether the NGOs were successful in influencing the formation and implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. In doing so, this chapter contributes to a growing body of literature on the political relevance of NGOs to international environmental politics.

Negotiating the 'Berlin Mandate': Reflections on the First 'Conference of the Parties' to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

This article discusses the first Conference of the parties to the UN framework convention on climate change.