This title was first published in 2002: The adoption of the 1999 Gothenburg Protocol within the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) and the 2001 EU National Emission Ceilings (NEC) directive has made for much stronger European air pollution policies. This volume offers the first in-depth analysis available of this key development. Central questions discussed include: -What role did the three new Green? member states joining the EU in 1995 play in this development? -Will these significantly stronger policies only be followed by weaker implementation? -Why are the EU emission ceilings more ambitious than those of CLRTAP? -Do these more ambitious EU NEC emission ceilings and wider trends such as EU enlargement signal that CLRTAP is fading away as a central forum for European policy development? Decision makers, negotiators and international and non-governmental organizations will benefit from this book as it discusses important institutional issues. Students and academics will also find it extremely useful.

Wolfgang Stolper: Studies of law at University of Berlin, and economics and law at University of Bonn, early 1930s. Harvard PhD (econ), mid-1930s. Professor of economics, University of Michigan, -1980 Founder-Director, Univ. of Michigan Center for Research on Economic Development . Visiting fellow, MIT Center for International Studies, 1958-59. Director, Economic Planning Unit, Federal Ministry of Economic Development, Gov't of Nigeria, 1960-62 Visiting fellow, Harvard University Center for International Affairs, 1962-63. Clive Gray: Harvard PhD (econ.), 1965. 1961-63 - assistant program economist, USAID/Nigeria 1964-67 - agriculture adviser, Ministry of Economic Planning, Kenya 1968-70 - Harvard team leader, National Planning Dept., Colombia 1971-72 - Harvard team leader, Planning Commission Office, Ethiopia 1972-76 - adviser, Ministry of Communications, Indonesia, and (from 1974) Harvard team leader, National Planning Dept. 1986-90 - Harvard team leader, Min. of Economic Affairs, Morocco 1970-2000 - Institute Fellow, Harvard Institute for International Development 2000-01 - Senior Fellow in Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Contents: Introduction: the changing politics of European air pollution control; Studying European air pollution politics: the conceptual lenses; Background and baseline: European air pollution politics in the 1980s; CLRTAP's significant leap forward in the 1990s: negotiating the 1999 Gothenburg Protocol; How the EU took up the challenge of acidification and smog in the 1990s: the acidification strategy and NEC directive; Comparing the EU and CLRTAP: explaining policy differences - and why they are so small; Implementing stronger European air pollution policies: will high hopes in Brussels and Geneva be dashed in London?; Summing up and looking ahead: constructive interplay between the EU and CLRTAP; Bibliography; Index.