The Implementation of Environmental Policy in Ireland: Lessons from Translating EU Directives into Action - Rilegato

Connaughton, Bernadette

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ISBN 10: 0719088879 ISBN 13: 9780719088872

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2019

Riassunto

This book explores the response of Ireland’s political-administrative system to the implementation of environmental directives in the cases of waste management, water reform and biodiversity. Ireland represents the implementation challenges of a small EU member state with a weak background in environmental governance, and has struggled to adapt to the complexities of enforcing environmental rules. Using a theoretical framework inspired by traditional implementation analysis and insights from the Europeanisation literature, the book traces the implementation process in three directives. The main conclusion of this study is that Ireland’s implementation performance in waste management, water and nature conservation is influenced by the low issue salience of environmental policy and the need to overcome structural problems in the public administration system to give effect to EU legislation.
This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6, Clean water and sanitation

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Dr Bernadette Connaughton is Lecturer in Public Administration at the University of Limerick

Bernadette Connaughton is Lecturer in Public Administration at the University of Limerick

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This book explores Ireland’s engagement with and implementation of EU environmental policy in three cases – waste management, water policy reform, and biodiversity.

Historically, Ireland has had a weak background in environmental governance, and has struggled to apply and enforce EU environmental policy; consequently Ireland has been subjected to several infringement proceedings and critical rulings from the Court of Justice of the European Union. Connaughton details how efforts to comply with these measures have been a source of significant pressure on Ireland’s institutional framework, and how this has prompted them to learn and adapt their environmental governance, by exploring the response of the Irish political-administrative system to the three directives at the core of the EU’s environment legislation. It highlights the difficulties between maintaining economic competitiveness and pursuing sustainability, as well as conflicts between practices of traditional land management and the threats to conservation this may bring.

By outlining the historical and contemporary challenges of Ireland’s experience, and by tracing and analysing the implementation of these core EU directives, The implementation of environmental policy in Ireland offers scholars and practitioners a deeper insight into how EU environmental directives are translated into action, and what may prohibit or facilitate their implementation. Combined with insights from Europeanisation literature, this analysis, based upon a theoretical framework, demonstrates how environmental governance is continuing to develop in the Irish state.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0719088879
• ISBN 13: 9780719088872
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 242
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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