U. K. Environmental Policy in the 1990s Book

	Notes on the Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	List of Abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
2	View from the Inside: UK Environmental Policy Seen from a Practitioner's Perspective	11
3	Impact of the European Union on UK Environmental Policy Making	18
4	The Establishment of a Cross-Sector Environment Agency	38
5	The Precautionary Principle in UK Environmental Law and Policy	57
6	UK Environmental Policy and the Politics of the Environment in Northern Ireland in the 1990s	85
7	The Politics of Mutual Attraction? UK Local Authorities and the Europeanisation of Environmental Policy	101
8	The UK and Global Warming Policy	123
9	Energy Conservation Policy	144
10	Construction Regulations and Regulating Construction: The Practicalities of Environmental Policy	159
11	UK Environmental Policy and Transport	173
12	Acid Rain: A Business-as-Usual Scenario	189
13	Nuclear Waste Disposal: A Technical Problem in Search of a Political Solution	210
14	Running Up the Down Escalator: Developments in British Wildlife Policies after Mrs Thatcher's 1988 Speeches	237
15	The Tragedy of the Common Fisheries Policy: UK Fisheries Policy in the 1990s	263
16	The UK and the International Environmental Agenda: Rio and After	283
	Index	303