Droit public de la régulation économique

La mondialisation des flux économiques et l'irruption de la concurence dans le fonctionnement des services publics mettent profondément en cause les relations entre l'Etat et le marché. Depuis une dizaine d'années, le droit public économique est particulièrement le théâtre de ces évolutions ...

The challenges of privatization

an international analysis

This book provides the first systematic empirical analysis of privatization processes worldwide to explain how and why governments privatize, and whether privatization has proved successful or not. Privatization is shown to be a difficult process, shaped by political preferences and budgetary constraints, often pursued in ...

The politics of regulation

institutions and regulatory reforms for the age of governance

This book suggests that the scope and breadth of regulatory reforms since the mid-1980s and particularly during the 1990s, are so striking that they necessitate a reappraisal of current approaches to the study of the politics of regulation. The authors call for the adoption of ...

Veinte años de privatizaciones en España

La privatización de empresas públicas tiene muchas facetas. Ha sido un instrumento adecuado para aumentar la eficiencia de las empresas implicadas, introducir competitividad, ayudar a la eliminación del déficit público, ampliar los mercados financieros y estimular el ahorro particular. Más allá del volumen de ingresos ...

Principios de Derecho público económico

modelo de Estado, gestión pública, regulación económica

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Teoría y política de privatizaciones

su contribución a la modernización económica: análisis del caso español

El libro Teoría y Política de Privatizaciones:su contribución a la modernización económica.Análisis del caso español, ofrece al lector nuevas aportaciones sobre el proceso de privatizaciones en generaly,particularmente ,sobre el caso español. En sus páginas,se presentan treinta y un estudios que contienen ...

Contributo allo studio della societá in mano pubblica come persone giuridiche

"The Public interest" in regulation

The concept of 'the public interest' is often used in legal and political discourse, lending an air of legitimacy and respectability to exercises of power. However the term is rarely defined in any meaningful sense. This book considers abstract concepts of public interest from the ...

Regulation

legal form and economic theory

This is a reprint of Anthony Ogus' classic study of regulation, first published in the 1990s. It examines how, since the last decades of the twentieth century there have been fundamental changes in the relationship between the state and industry. With the aid of economic ...

Environmental Law

Environmental Law provides the reader with a clear and current picture of the framework of environmental regulation. The text highlights the major themes and principles, and provides practical examples of the law in operation. The new edition has been completely restructured to meet the changing ...

Eco-efficiency,regulation and sustainable business

towards a governance structure for sustainable development

This book presents important new research on applied eco-efficiency concepts throughout Europe. The aim of eco-efficiency is to achieve market-based measures of environmental protection, in order to enhance the prospects for sustainable development and achieve positive economic and ecological benefits. The distinguished authors discuss a ...

Institutional change for sustainable development

This volume presents a flexible conceptual framework for comprehending institutional dimensions of sustainability, emphasising the complexity of instututional systems, and highlighting the interdependence between policy learning and institutional change. This framework is applied and developed through the analysis of five significant arenas of institutional and ...

The green state

rethinking democracy and sovereignty

What would constitute a definitively "green" state? In this important new book, Robyn Eckersley explores what it might take to create a green democratic state as an alternative to the classical liberal democratic state, the indiscriminate growth-dependent welfare state, and the neoliberal market-focused state--seeking, she ...

Green giants

environmrntal policies of the United States and the European Union

The United States in recent years has been abandoning its historical role as a leader in environmental regulation. At the same time, the European Union, spurred by political integration, has enacted many new environmental laws and assumed a leadership role in promoting global environmental sustainability ...

Federalism and environmental policy

trust and the politics of implementation

This revised and updated edition of Federalism and Environmental Policy provides a significant contribution to our understanding of relationships between the states and the national government. The major contribution of this work is to set the environmental policy process in its unique constitutional and political ...

International environmental justice

a North-South dimension

This work satisfies the need for a thorough assessment of environmental justice concerns at the global level. Using three international environmental case studies, it extends the theory of environmental justice, commonly used in domestic settings, to the international arena of environmental law, policy and politics ...

Les bruits de voisinage

Le bruit est devenu la première nuisance de la vie quotidienne. Il atteint l#homme dans ce qu#il a de plus précieux : sa santé et sa qualité de vie. Or, la lutte contre les bruits de voisinage fait l#objet d#une lente évolution ...

Incidencia de la protección del medio ambientew en los usos del suelo

El carácter transversal de los problemas ambientales se manifiesta con especial importancia en el condicionamiento de la ordenación física del suelo mediante medidas de conservación de la naturaleza. La complejidad de la cuestión se pone de manifiesto a la vista de la imbricación de mecanismos ...

EMAS

análisis experiencias e implantación

Este libro tiene por finalidad el análisis riguroso de los requisitos de participación en el EMAS (Eco Management and Audit Scheme), así como las consecuencias que dicha participación tiene para la organización, el entorno y, sobre todo, la protección ambiental. Es, por tanto, un libro ...

Responsabilidad civil por contaminación marina por vertido de hidrocarburos

a propósito del Prestige

El desastre ecológico originado por vertidos contaminantes del Prestige a finales de 2002, y la larga cadena de daños producidos, así como los que previsiblemente continuarán produciéndose en el futuro, no llevaron al estudio de las responsabilidades concurrentes y de las formas de reparación de ...