Environmental policy and the regional model.

Authors

  • JORDI JARIA I MANZANO

Keywords:

federalism, environmental law, public policies.

Abstract

How best to determine a territorial organisation of political power structures and, particularly, of States has become a subject of great interest within Constitutional Law. This article analyses the main problems that are posed in decentralized States that must design sustainable development strategies given the existence of a multiplicity of actors who can each have different development goals and, therefore, environmental policy models. It analyses four models of power distribution to evaluate their influence on environmental policies. On the basis of this comparative analysis, the article concludes that sustainable development entails territorial consensus, because unilateral policies can cause implicit erosion in the territorial model.

Published

2008-03-24

Issue

Section

ARTICLES