Table Of ContentGREENING SOCIETY
The Paradigm Shift in Dutch Environmental Politics
Greening Society
The Paradigm Shift in
Dutch Environmental Politics
Edited by
Peter P.J. Driessen
Pieter Glasbergen
Professor of Environmental Studies,
Department of Environmental Studies and Policy,
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
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CONTENTS
Preface vii
About the authors IX
Part 1 - Introduction
The Paradigm Shift in Environmental Politics 3
-Towards a New Image of the Manageable Society
Pieter Glasbergen and Peter P.J. Driessen
2 Networks as a New Concept for Governance 27
Henri J.M. Goverde and Nico J.M. Nelissen
3 Strategies in Environmental Policy 47
- A Historical Institutional Perspective
Jan P.M. van Tatenhove and Henri J.M. Goverde
Part 2 - Environmental Politics in an Economical Context
4 Greening Production as Co-responsibility 67
Walter J. V Vermeulen
5 The Stubborn Consumer 91
Walter J. V Vermeulen
Part 3 - Environmental Politics in a Spatial Context
6 The Renewal of Rural Areas 115
Peter P.J. Driessen, Henri J.M. Goverde and
Jan P.M. van Tatenhove
7 Policy Innovations in the Urban Context 137
Jochem FM. van der Waals and Pieter Glasbergen
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Part 4 - Political Institutional Aspects
8 Environment and Participation 163
- The Shifting Significance of a Double Concept
Pieter Leroy and Jan P.M. van Tatenhove
9 Greening Political Institutions 185
Pieter Glasbergen and Henri J.M. Goverde
10 The Netherlands: International Innovator or Self 205
interested Negotiator?
Bas Arts, Carel Dieperink and Duncan Liefferink
Part 5 - Conclusions
11 The Paradigm Shift in Environmental 227
Policy Research
Pieter Leroy and Nico J.M. Nelissen
12 New Directions in Environmental Politics 245
- Concluding Remarks
Peter P.J. Driessen and Pieter Glasbergen
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PREFACE
This book can be regarded as a monograph on the debates and
developments in Dutch environmental policy. It has been written with a
specific perspective in mind. First and foremost, the line of approach we
have taken was from a multidisciplinary social science point of view. The
trend in environmental policy is looked at from the angle of sociology,
policy studies and political science. Secondly, all analyses depart from the
paradigm shift concept. This particular paradigm shift is based on the fact
that a radical change has taken shape over the years in the way
environmental issues are handled. Previously, environmental policy had
always been characterised by is top-down approach in which government
determined the actual objectives of policy and assumed that it could win
over business, non governmental organisations and citizens to act in line
with those objectives. There was also a great deal of faith in the technical
solutions to environmental issues. Today's environmental policy is based
on a totally different philosophy. Environmental objectives are now
reached in association with business, non-governmental organisations and
citizens. These actors are also involved in bringing environmental policy
into practice. In other words, the implementation of policy has a more
interactive nature. New relationships emerge between government, the
market and civil society, and policy discourses also become integrated. The
environmental interest is more often weighed against the econom1c
interests, the spatial development and against social justice.
The object of this book is both to give an analysis of this paradigm shift and
to explore the opportunities and limitations of the new method of
governance. The development of the new paradigm is set in the context of
further, general social and institutional change. While the analyses relate
specifically to Dutch environmental policy, the lessons they learn can also
be of significance for the environmental policy pursued in other liberal
democratic nations.
This book is the product of intensive teamwork between scientists of
Utrecht University (Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Copernicus
Institute) and the University of Nijmegen (Nijmegen School of
Management). We wish to express our thanks to the authors for the work
they have put into this publication and for the inspiring and constructive
exchange of ideas that emerged during the process.
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Finally, we must also express our gratitude to Rien Rabbers of the KartLab
of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht University, for his work
on lay out and design.
Peter P.J. Driessen
Pieter Glasbergen
Utrecht University
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Peter P.J. Driessen is Associate Professor of Environmental Politics and
Management at Utrecht University, Department of Environmental Studies
and Policy. Most of his research is related to planning and management
issues on the national and regional level. He is in particular concerned with
the relationships between environmental planning, spatial planning and
water management. Furthermore he is engaged in research on opportunities
in and the risks of network management.
Pieter Glasbergen is Professor of Environmental Studies holding a chair in
Environmental Policy at Utrecht University (Department of Environmental
Studies and Policy) and the Dutch Open University. His main interest is in
planning and policy issues, particularly with reference to environmental
policy, spatial planning, water management, and policy on landscape and
nature conservation.
Bas Arts is lecturer in International Environmental Politics at Nijmegen
University, Department of Environmental Policy Sciences. His current
professional focus is on the role and power of non-state actors in
international environmental politics (particularly NGOs and corporations),
and the innovation of environmental policy arrangements at the
international level.
Carel Dieperink is lecturer in International Environmental Politics at
Utrecht University, Department of Environmental Studies and Policy. The
main topics of his research activities are environmental policy,
international environmental affairs, water management, climate change,
policy analysis and evaluation, and environmental innovations.
Henri J.M. Goverde is Associate Professor Public Administration at the
Nijmegen School of Management, Nijmegen University, and Professor of
Political Science, Wageningen University and Research Center. He chairs
the Research Committee 'Political Power' of the International Political
Science Association. His research focuses on power, policy networks and
multi-level governance. His empirical work concerns policy fields as urban
and regional politics, architecture and public space, environment and nature
conservation, rural innovation, and water management.
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Pieter Leroy is Professor of Political Sciences of the Environment and
chairs the Department of Environmental Policy Studies at Nijmegen
University. His research and publications focuses on new developments in
environmental politics and policies and the emergence of new
environmental policy arrangements. He has also a part time professorship
in Environmental Policies at Antwerp University, Belgium, where he chairs
a research consortium on environmental policies. He chairs the steering
committees on Flanders' state of the environment and state of nature
reports.
Duncan Liefferink is lecturer in Environmental Politics at Nijmegen
University, Department of Environmental Policy Sciences. His main fields
of research are European and comparative environmental politics, with a
particular interest in the dynamic interrelationship between national and
EU environmental policy making. He is co-editor of the 'Issues in
Environmental Politics' series, published by Manchester University Press.
Nico J.M. Nelissen was a Professor of Environmental Studies at Tilburg
University, and still is a Professor of Public Administration at Nijmegen
University. He was a member of the National Council for Environmental
Problems and he was also the president of the Dutch Committee for Long
Term Environmental Policy. His scientific work focuses on the
responsibility of government for the quality of the natural and urban
environment. In this context, he has written several books on
environmental consciousness, environmentally-sound behavior,
environmental movements, environmental policy, urban renewal,
monument care, urban planning, architecture, public administration and
governmental policy.
Jan P.M. van Tatenhove is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the
Department of Political Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. His
research focuses on processes of political modernisation and the
institutionalisation and development of policy arrangements, new political
spaces and multi-level governance in policy domains, such as
environmental policy, nature conservation and spatial planning.
Walter V.J. Vermeulen is a lecturer at Utrecht University, Department of
Environmental Studies and Policy. His work focuses on design,
implementation and effectiveness of new strategies for increasing eco
efficiency of production and consumption and co-production of sustainable
development strategies.
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