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Jungwirth, Martin
Environmental Management Systems in Local Public Authorities
A Comparative Study of the Introduction and Implementation of EMAS in the United Kingdom and Germany
Series: Aktuelle Probleme moderner Gesellschaften / Contemporary Problems of Modern Societies - Volume 5
Year of Publication: 2011
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011. 264 pp., num. fig., tables and graphs
ISBN 978-3-631-59531-2 hb.
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Book synopsis
This study analyses the introduction and implementation processes of the European environmental management standard EMAS in modern local public administrations in the UK and Germany. Based on the different political and institutional settings, a qualitative analysis reveals the effects of the policy instrument. The study comes to the conclusion that the organizational processes are mostly dependent on the dominant actors within each organization. The orientation towards New Public Management can be beneficial for organizations working with EMAS while others can use it to start a modernization process. On a national level, EMAS is a classical case of an innovative, voluntary and flexible policy instrument with an imperfect national implementation that has dramatic effects on its use.
Contents
Contents: Local public authorities in the UK and Germany - Modernization of the public sector - Environmental policy - European environmental management system - Policy implementation.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
Martin Jungwirth has studied English and Politics at the University of Vechta. Since 2003 he is working in the field of university reforms. He is head of the teacher training examinations office of the University of Hamburg (Germany).
Series
Contemporary Problems of Modern Societies. Vol. 5
Edited by Peter Nitschke and Corinna Onnen-Isemann