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Steering through Complexity: EU Environmental Regulation in the International Context

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  • Aynsley Kellow
  • Anthony R. Zito

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The nature of governance in the European Union (EU) and its member states is continuing to evolve as the EU develops. This paper focuses on the challenges to this governance process in the sector of environmental policy, and particularly the role of external organizations and states in providing alternate policy fora. The policy impact of these institutions and organizations leads to more actor participation in a way that EU players may not be able to anticipate or control since the EU is only one of several arenas involved. Both states and non‐governmental actors actively seek to shift issues to arenas that provide them advantages. Consequently, developments in other arenas shape and are shaped by EU issues as actors pursue forum shopping. The paper presents two cases, the amendment of the Basel Convention to ban hazardous wastes export and the EU regulation of chemical risk, which demonstrate how external players can shape EU regulation.

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  • Aynsley Kellow & Anthony R. Zito, 2002. "Steering through Complexity: EU Environmental Regulation in the International Context," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 50(1), pages 43-60, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:polstu:v:50:y:2002:i:1:p:43-60
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.00358
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    1. Tom Butler & Damien McGovern, 2012. "A conceptual model and IS framework for the design and adoption of environmental compliance management systems," Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, vol. 14(2), pages 221-235, April.
    2. Aynsley Kellow, 2012. "Multi-level and multi-arena governance: the limits of integration and the possibilities of forum shopping," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 12(4), pages 327-342, November.
    3. Pulzl, Helga & Rametsteiner, Ewald, 2002. "Grounding international modes of governance into National Forest Programmes," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 4(4), pages 259-268, December.
    4. Chris Ansell & Jörg Balsiger, 2011. "Circuits of Regulation: Transatlantic Perspectives on Persistent Organic Pollutants and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals," Chapters, in: David Vogel & Johan Swinnen (ed.), Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation, chapter 8, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    5. Hannah Murphy & Aynsley Kellow, 2013. "Forum Shopping in Global Governance: Understanding States, Business and NGOs in Multiple Arenas," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 4(2), pages 139-149, May.
    6. Sangeeta Sonak & Mahesh Sonak & Asha Giriyan, 2008. "Shipping hazardous waste: implications for economically developing countries," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 8(2), pages 143-159, June.
    7. Doh, Jonathan P. & Dahan, Nicolas M. & Casario, Michelle, 2022. "MNEs and the practice of international business diplomacy," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 31(1).
    8. Johan Eriksson & Mikael Karlsson & Marta Reuter, 2010. "Technocracy, Politicization, and Noninvolvement: Politics of Expertise in the European Regulation of Chemicals," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 27(2), pages 167-185, March.

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