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 7
Catching up with the International Bandwagon:
The Management of Global Environmental Risks in Hungary

7.1	Introduction
7.2	The Perception of Global Environmental Problems in Hungary
7.2.1	Issue Attention
7.2.2	Case Histories
7.2.3	Trends in Emissions
7.3	Actors and Institutions: Cross Case Comparisons
7.3.1	Actors
7.3.2	Cross Case Comparison
7.3.3	International Influence
7.4	Evaluation of Management
7.5	Conclusions
7.5.1	The Small Country Complex
7.5.2	Good Science and Poor Management
7.5.3	Bandwagon
Appendix 7A	Acronyms
Appendix 7B	Chronology Notes References
Table 7.1	Acid rain related emissions in Hungary
Table 7.2	Ozone depleting substance emissions in Hungary
Table 7.3	Carbon dioxide emissions in Hungary
Figure 7.1	Frequency of environmental articles in Népszabadság, 1960 to 1992
Figure 7.2	Attention to global atmospheric issues in Hungary: Acid rain
Figure 7.3	Attention to global atmospheric issues in Hungary: Ozone depletion
Figure 7.4	Attention to global atmospheric issues in Hungary: Climate change