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Chapter 9 Environmental policy in Greece reloaded: Plurality, participation and the Sirens of neo-centralism

Charalampos Koutalakis

Sustainable Politics and the Crisis of the Peripheries: Ireland and Greece

ISBN: 978-0-85724-761-2, eISBN: 978-0-85724-762-9

ISSN: 2041-806X

Publication date: 21 November 2011

Abstract

During the past 30 years environmental policy was never between the top priority areas of public intervention in Greece. Legislative measures related to the protection of human health and nuisance from private economic activities were introduced as early as in the beginning of last century. The post dictatorial constitution of 1975 provided, for the first time, specific provision for the protection of natural environment. However, a comprehensive framework legislation regulating all facets of environmental degradation was adopted only in 1986 but remained, for a long period, practically inactive since the necessary implementing decisions were issued with considerable delay. The country's accession into the EU, in 1981, provided a cognitive and material basis for the modernisation of environmental policy through the incorporation of the environmental acquis into domestic law and building up of domestic administrative capacities through the use of the structural funds. However, low prioritisation of environmental protection in the domestic policy agendas of successive Greek governments continued to affect domestic administrative structures and policy traditions.

Citation

Koutalakis, C. (2011), "Chapter 9 Environmental policy in Greece reloaded: Plurality, participation and the Sirens of neo-centralism", Leonard, L. and Botetzagias, I. (Ed.) Sustainable Politics and the Crisis of the Peripheries: Ireland and Greece (Advances in Ecopolitics, Vol. 8), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 181-200. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2041-806X(2011)0000008012

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