Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks - Chapter 12 Table of Contents

Volume 1: A Comparative History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain

The Social Learning Group
The MIT Press, 2001

Part II: Studies of Arenas

Chapter 12
A Regional Approach to the Management of Global Environmental Risks: The Case of the European Community

12.1	Background: The European Community Context
12.2	The Emergence and Development of European Community Policies
12.2.1	The Emergence of the Three Issues
12.2.2	Negotiations
12.2.3	A Turning Point in Issue Evolution
12.2.4	Implementing Commitments and Formulating a Climate Change Policy
12.2.5	Outlook
12.3	Analyzing Common Features and Differences
12.3.1	Contextual Variables
12.3.2	Issue Specific Features
12.3.3	Summary
12.4	Learning Processes
12.4.1	Structural Changes
12.4.2	Improvement
12.5	Conclusions
Appendix 12A	Acronyms
Appendix 12B	Chronologies Notes References
Table 12.1	Reduction of sulfur dioxide emissions in the Large Combustion Plant Directive
Figure 12.1	Dominant issue frames in the European Community: Acid rain
Figure 12.2	Dominant issue frames in the European Community: Ozone depletion
Figure 12.3	Dominant issue frames in the European Community: Climate change