Environmental Politics in Southern Europe: Actors, Institutions and Discourses in a Europeanizing Society

410 Pages·2001·13.004 MB·English

by  Maria Kousis, Klaus Eder (auth.), Klaus Eder, Maria Kousis (eds.)

ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE
Actors, Institutions and Discourses in a Europeanizing Society
ENVIRONMENT & POLICY
VOLUME 29
Environmental Politics
in Southern Europe
Actors, Institutions and Discourses
in a Europeanizing Society
Edilcd by
Klaus Eder
Humboldl-UnÎversităt zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Maria Kousis
University o/Crere, Rethimno, Greece
with contributions by
Susana Aguilar Femandez. Evi Arahoviti, Inaki Barcena,
Helen Briassoulis, George A. Daoulopoulos, Maria Oiani,
Teresa Fidelis, Elisabete Figueiredo. Joaquim Oii Nave, Pedro Ibarr3,
Manuel Jimenez, Leonidas Louloudis. Dimilris A. Papadopoulos.
Eugenia Pctropou!ou, Artur da Rosa Pires, Geoffrey Pridham,
Myno Pyrovctsi, Michael Redclifl. Carla Ruzza.
Anna Triandafyllidou
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
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DOI 10.1007/978-94-010-0896-9
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Contents
Contributors
IX
Preface
ED policy-making, local action, and the emergence of institutions
of collective action 3
MARIA KOUSIS ANO KLAUS EOER
Part I The Europeanization of Environmental Politics
1 Sustainability as a Discursive Device for Mobilizing European
Publics 25
KLAUS EOER
2 Sustainability and the North/South Divide 53
MICHAEL REOCLIFT
3 Sustainable Development - The Formal Or Informal Way? 73
HELEN BRIASSOULIS
4 Sustainability and Tourism 101
CARLO RUZZA
VI Contents
Part II Sustainability from Above and from Below in Southern
Europe. Comparative Studies and Country Studies on
Collective Action in Southern Europe
5 Competing Claims in Local Environmental Conflicts in Southern
Europe 129
MARIA KOUSIS
6 Greek Rural Society and Sustainable Development 151
GEORGE A. DAOUTOPOULOS, MYRTO PYROYETSI AND
EUGENIA PETROPOULOU
7 The Ecologist Movement in the Basque Country 175
INAKI BARCENA AND PEDRO IBARRA
8 Grassroots Environmental Action in Portugal (1974-1994) 197
ELISABETE FIGUEIREDO, TERESA FIDELIS AND
ARTUR DA ROSA PIRES
Part III Sustainability Discourses and the Emergence of
Institutions for Collective Action in Southern Europe
9 Sustainable Development and the Participation of Environmental
NGOs in Spanish Environmental Policy 225
MANUEL JIMENEZ
10 Is Spanish Environmental Policy Becoming More Participatory? 255
SUSANA AGUILAR FERNANDEZ
11 Interaction Between State and Non-state Actors in the
Implementation of the CAP Agri-environmental Measures 277
LEONIDAS LOULOUDIS, EYI ARAHOYITI AND
DIMITRIS A. PAPADOPOULOS
12 Images of Sustainable Development in Italy 299
MARIODIANI
13 From Common Interest To Partnership 321
ANNA TRIANDAFYLLIDOU
Contents
VB
14 Non-Governmental Groups and the State 343
JOAQUIM GIL NAVE
15 Tourism Policy and Sustainability in Italy, Spain and Greece 365
GEOFFREY PRIDHAM
Is There a Mediterranean Syndrome? 393
KLAUS EDER AND MARIA KOUSIS
Index 407
Contributors
Susana Aguilar Fernandez is Senior Reader at the Faculty of Political
Sciences and Sociology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
Evi Arahoviti is a Msc. Researcher at the Department of Agricultural Eco
nomics and Rural Development of the Agricultural University of Athens,
Greece.
lfiaki Barcena is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political
Science at the University of the Basque Country, Spain.
Helen Briassoulis is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography,
University of the Aegean, Lesvos, Greece.
George A. Daoutopoulos is Professor of Agricultural Economics at the
Department of Agricultural Economics at the Aristotelian University of
Thessaloniki, Greece.
Mario Diani is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Government of
the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Klaus Eder is Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Social Sciences of
the Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany.
Teresa Fidelis is Lecturer at the Department of Environment and Planning of
the University of A veiro, Portugal.
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Elisabete Figueiredo is Lecturer at the Department of Environment and Plan
ning of the University of A veiro, Portugal.
Joaquim Gil Nave is Professor of Sociology at the Instituto Superior de
Ciencias do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), Lisbon, Portugal.
Pedro Ibarra is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political
Science of the University of the Basque Country, Spain.
Manuel Jimenez is a Doctoral Candidate and Researcher at the Center for
Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Juan March Institute, Madrid, Spain.
Mana Kousis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Crete,
Rethimno, Greece.
Leonidas Louloudis is Assistant Professor at the Department of Agricultural
Economics and Rural Development of the Agricultural University of Athens,
Greece.
Dimitris A. Papadopoulos is a PhD Researcher at the Department of Agri
cultural Economics and Rural Development of the Agricultural University of
Athens, Greece.
Eugenia Petropoulou is Research Associate at the University of Crete Re
search Fund, Greece.
Artur da Rosa Pires is Professor of Development Planning at the University
of A veiro, Portugal.
Geoffrey Pridham is Professor of European Politics and Director of the
Centre for Mediterranean Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.
Myrto Pyrovetsi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Ecology in the
School of Biology of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Michael Redclift is Professor of Rural Sociology in the Environment Sec
tion, Wye College of the University of London, UK.
Carlo Ruzza is PhD Lecturer in Sociology and European Studies at the Uni
versity of Essex, UK.
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Anna Triandafyllidou is a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University
Institute in Florence, Italy.