ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE Actors, Institutions and Discourses in a Europeanizing Society

ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE Actors, Institutions and Discourses in a Europeanizing Society

ENVIRONMENT & POLICY VOLUME 29

Environmental Politics in Southern Europe Actors, Institutions and Discourses in a Europeanizing Society Edilcd by Klaus Eder Humboldl-UnÎversităt zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany Maria Kousis University o/crere, Rethimno, Greece with contributions by Susana Aguilar Femandez. Evi Arahoviti, Inaki Barcena, Helen Briassouli s, George A. Daoulopoulos, Maria Oiani, Teresa Fidelis, El isabete Figueiredo. Joaquim Oii Nave, Pedro Ibarr3, Manuel Jimenez, Leonidas Louloudis. Dimilris A. Papadopoulos. Eugenia Pctropou!ou, Artur da Rosa Pires, Geoffrey Pridham, Myno Pyrovctsi, Michael Redclifl. Carla Ruzza. Anna Triandafyllidou SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

A c.i.p. CataIogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-94-010-3811-9 ISBN 978-94-010-0896-9 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-010-0896-9 Printed on acid-free paper AII Rights Reserved 2001 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2001 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1 st edition 2001 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, record ing or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner.

Contents Contributors IX Preface ED policy-making, local action, and the emergence of institutions of collective action 3 MARIA KOUSIS ANO KLAUS EOER Part I The Europeanization of Environmental Politics 1 Sustainability as a Discursive Device for Mobilizing European Publics 25 KLAUS EOER 2 Sustainability and the North/South Divide 53 MICHAEL REOCLIFT 3 Sustainable Development - The Formal Or Informal Way? 73 HELEN BRIASSOULIS 4 Sustainability and Tourism 101 CARLO RUZZA

VI Contents Part II Sustainability from Above and from Below in Southern Europe. Comparative Studies and Country Studies on Collective Action in Southern Europe 5 Competing Claims in Local Environmental Conflicts in Southern Europe 129 MARIA KOUSIS 6 Greek Rural Society and Sustainable Development 151 GEORGE A. DAOUTOPOULOS, MYRTO PYROYETSI AND EUGENIA PETROPOULOU 7 The Ecologist Movement in the Basque Country 175 INAKI BARCENA AND PEDRO IBARRA 8 Grassroots Environmental Action in Portugal (1974-1994) 197 ELISABETE FIGUEIREDO, TERESA FIDELIS AND ARTUR DA ROSA PIRES Part III Sustainability Discourses and the Emergence of Institutions for Collective Action in Southern Europe 9 Sustainable Development and the Participation of Environmental NGOs in Spanish Environmental Policy 225 MANUEL JIMENEZ 10 Is Spanish Environmental Policy Becoming More Participatory? 255 SUSANA AGUILAR FERNANDEZ 11 Interaction Between State and Non-state Actors in the Implementation of the CAP Agri-environmental Measures 277 LEONIDAS LOULOUDIS, EYI ARAHOYITI AND DIMITRIS A. PAPADOPOULOS 12 Images of Sustainable Development in Italy 299 MARIODIANI 13 From Common Interest To Partnership 321 ANNA TRIANDAFYLLIDOU

Contents VB 14 Non-Governmental Groups and the State 343 JOAQUIM GIL NAVE 15 Tourism Policy and Sustainability in Italy, Spain and Greece 365 GEOFFREY PRIDHAM Is There a Mediterranean Syndrome? 393 KLAUS EDER AND MARIA KOUSIS Index 407

Contributors Susana Aguilar Fernandez is Senior Reader at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Evi Arahoviti is a Msc. Researcher at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece. lfiaki Barcena is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. Helen Briassoulis is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Lesvos, Greece. George A. Daoutopoulos is Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Department of Agricultural Economics at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Mario Diani is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Government of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Klaus Eder is Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Social Sciences of the Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany. Teresa Fidelis is Lecturer at the Department of Environment and Planning of the University of A veiro, Portugal.

x Elisabete Figueiredo is Lecturer at the Department of Environment and Planning of the University of A veiro, Portugal. Joaquim Gil Nave is Professor of Sociology at the Instituto Superior de Ciencias do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), Lisbon, Portugal. Pedro Ibarra is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science of the University of the Basque Country, Spain. Manuel Jimenez is a Doctoral Candidate and Researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Juan March Institute, Madrid, Spain. Mana Kousis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Crete, Rethimno, Greece. Leonidas Louloudis is Assistant Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece. Dimitris A. Papadopoulos is a PhD Researcher at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece. Eugenia Petropoulou is Research Associate at the University of Crete Research Fund, Greece. Artur da Rosa Pires is Professor of Development Planning at the University of A veiro, Portugal. Geoffrey Pridham is Professor of European Politics and Director of the Centre for Mediterranean Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. Myrto Pyrovetsi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Ecology in the School of Biology of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Michael Redclift is Professor of Rural Sociology in the Environment Section, Wye College of the University of London, UK. Carlo Ruzza is PhD Lecturer in Sociology and European Studies at the University of Essex, UK.

Anna Triandafyllidou is a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Xl