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The Europeanisation of local environmental politics: Bathing water pollution in south-west England

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Neil Ward, Professor Philip Lowe

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Abstract

The influence of European environmental policy is transforming more than just the way that environmental protection is organised and implemented in the UK. The nature of environmental politics is also changing dramatically. The paper examines the implementation of the Bathing Waters Directive in the South West of England to illustrate how Europeanisation opens up new scope and spaces for political action. The legal standards laid down in directives such as the Bathing Waters Directive provide an authoritative yardstick which environmental pressure groups can use to exert pressure at the local as well as the national level. In turn, Europe becomes increasingly viewed in the UK as the moral arbiter of what counts as 'pollution'.

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Author(s): Ward N, Buller H, Lowe P

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Local Environment

Year: 1996

Volume: 1

Issue: 1

Pages: 21-32

Print publication date: 01/02/1996

ISSN (print): 1354-9839

ISSN (electronic): 1469-6711

Publisher: Routledge

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839608725478

DOI: 10.1080/13549839608725478

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