When soft regulation is not enough: The integrated pollution prevention and control directive of the European Union

Regulation and Governance

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 329-344

  Koutalakis, Charalampos ^a   Buzogany, Aron ^b   Börzel, Tanja A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Best available technologies; European Union; Industry; Pollution prevention; Soft regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957107094     PISSN: 17485983     EISSN: 17485991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5991.2010.01084.x     Document Type: Article

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