Sustaining Abundance: Environmental Performance in Industrial Democracies

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Figures......Page 12
Tables......Page 13
Preface......Page 15
1 Introduction......Page 17
What Is Good Environmental Performance?......Page 20
Explaining Performance......Page 21
Structural Change......Page 23
Public Opinion and Environmental Mobilization......Page 26
Economic and Political Institutions......Page 28
Case Selection and Methodological Approach......Page 32
2 Measuring National Environmental Performance......Page 35
What Is Environmental Performance?......Page 36
Environmental Performance Compared......Page 39
Ambient Quality versus Emissions as Measures of Performance......Page 40
Levels or Changes?......Page 43
Sulfur Oxides......Page 45
Nitrogen Oxides......Page 49
Municipal Waste......Page 53
Recycling......Page 56
Wastewater Treatment......Page 58
Fertilizer Use......Page 60
Summary......Page 63
Aggregate Environmental Performance......Page 64
3 Economic Development, Geographic Advantage, and Environmental Performance......Page 71
Income Growth and Environmental Protection......Page 72
Structural Economic Change and Environmental Performance......Page 78
The Structure of the Economy......Page 81
Economic Growth......Page 86
Geographical Advantage......Page 88
Conclusion......Page 92
4 Public Opinion, Environmental Mobilization, and Environmental Performance......Page 94
Environmental Mobilization......Page 95
Are Opinion and Performance Related?......Page 97
Data......Page 99
General Concern for the Environment......Page 100
Economic Trade-offs and “Willingness to Pay”......Page 106
Environmental Organizations and Parties......Page 112
Postmaterialism......Page 121
Does Income Promote Environmental Mobilization?......Page 123
Combining Indicators of Environmental Mobilization......Page 127
Public Mobilization and Environmental Performance......Page 129
Conclusion......Page 136
5 Pluralism, Corporatism, and Environmental Performance......Page 138
Institutions in the Comparative Environmental Policy Literature......Page 140
The Emergence of Institutions for Environmental Policy......Page 147
Critiques of Neocorporatism......Page 150
False Economic Trade-offs......Page 153
The Pursuit of “Postmaterialist” Goals......Page 154
The Exclusion of Environmentalists from Policy Making and Implementation......Page 155
Comparative Advantages of Neocorporatism......Page 156
Organization of Interests......Page 164
Empirical Analysis......Page 168
Conclusion......Page 176
6 Political Institutions......Page 178
Dimensions of Institutional Variation in Democratic Society......Page 179
Single-Party versus Coalition Government......Page 180
Unified versus Separation-of-Powers Systems......Page 183
Federal versus Unitary Political Systems......Page 188
Proportional and Plurality Electoral Representation......Page 191
Political Correlates of Environmental Performance......Page 193
Multivariate Analysis......Page 199
Income and Environmental Performance Reconsidered......Page 203
Conclusion......Page 204
Diagnosing Influential Observations......Page 207
Do the Results Hold in Europe Only?......Page 213
Revisiting the Environmental Performance Indicator......Page 215
Conclusion......Page 219
8 Conclusion......Page 220
Waste......Page 231
Wastewater Treatment......Page 232
Fertilizer......Page 233
Austria (strong)......Page 235
Denmark (very strong)......Page 236
Finland (very strong)......Page 237
Western Germany (strong/very strong)......Page 238
Italy (weak)......Page 239
Japan (strong)......Page 240
Norway (very strong)......Page 241
United Kingdom (weak)......Page 242
United States (very weak)......Page 243
References......Page 245
Index......Page 261