Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks

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 5
Finding Your Place: A History of the Management of Global Environmental Risks in the Netherlands

Josee van Eijndhoven with Gerda Dinkelman, Jeroen van der Sluijs, Ruud Pleune, and Cor Worrell

5.1	Introduction
5.2	Global Environmental Issues: Background and Development
5.2.1	The Development of Dutch Environmental Policy
5.2.2	Acid Rain
5.2.3	Ozone Depletion
5.2.4	Climate Change
5.3	Shifting Roles of Actors
5.3.1	Industry
5.3.2	Environmental Organizations
5.3.3	Science
5.3.4	Policy Actors
5.3.5	Paths of Influence in the Three Issues
5.4	The Netherlands as Part of the World
5.5	The Developing Process of Managing Global Risks in the Netherlands
Appendix 5A	Acronyms
Appendix 5B	Chronologies Notes References
Figure 5.1	Attention to global atmospheric issues in the Netherlands: Acid rain, ozone depletion, and climate change