Environmental conflicts are on the increase in all democratic industrial societies. In some areas, especially those involving big technology development projects, there is growing resistance to government intervention using conventional policy instruments. Therefore, political administrations...

Umweltpolitik ist in Deutschland in einem politisch-administrativen Alleingang institutionalisiert worden und hat über lange Zeit (aus international vergleichender Sicht) beachtliche Erfolge erzielt. Neue Problemstellungen und veränderte Akteurskonstellationen bewirken gleichwohl, daß die...

For the first time ever in the Federal Republic of Germany a mediation procedure on a waste management concept has been carried out. It took place in Neuss in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The interdisciplinary project group, Environmental Mediation, from the Science Centre...