Europeanising Hungarian Waste Policies: Progress or Regression?

Gille, Zsuzsa

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“…The amount of illegally disposed matter started to grow, also indicating rapid economic changes and the interruption of waste-related systems in this post-socialist country. Similarly, in another example, that of Hungary, the average income declined through the early 1990s, and many people and businesses resorted to illegal dumping in the macro context of the chemical waste regime, where waste liquidation became (in the mid-1980s) the primary task in the official waste politics (Gille, 2004(Gille, , 2010. Further changes in the waste regime were also introduced.…”

Section: Visualization: Mapping Matter and Morementioning

confidence: 94%

“…We pay particular attention to the waste problematization throughout the event and the role of new technologies within it. Waste problematization is complex and related to knowledge and expertise, and thus is often left to public policy administrators and international consults (Gille, 2004). Other key actors involved in the waste-related issues remain unnoticed.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Dis/appearing waste and afterwards

Pikner

Jauhiainen

2014

Geoforum

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dis/appearing waste and afterwards

Pikner

Jauhiainen

2014

Geoforum

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“…Also, increased openness of the CEE10 countries does not appear to provide evidence for 'pollution havens'. There are always sporadic cases of bad behaviour of some investors (Bilsen and Konings, 1998;Gille, 2005;Gulascy et al, 2006) but in most cases the strategic investors from developed economies followed higher standards than average in the CEECs (Bochniarz et al, 1995;Bochniarz, 2006).…”

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confidence: 96%

Transition and sustainability: empirical analysis of environmental Kuznets curve for water pollution in 25 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States

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This paper examines the effects of political, structural and economic changes on environmental quality in 25 Central and East European countries (CEECs) and the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) using selected water pollution indicators and by testing the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC). Despite substantial research on the transition effects from centrally planned economies and totalitarian political systems to democracy and free market economies, the literature is limited with respect to the short-and long-term environmental impacts. Considering the institutional and structural changes in these economies, rising per capita income and increased trade and investment openness, these countries can be characterized as early, late and non-liberalizers with respect to the start and continuation of liberalization processes -a critical element of the systemic transformation in the CEECs. While trends in selected economic and social indicators (based on the OECD pressure-state-response framework) show that early liberalizers enjoyed positive gains relative to late liberalizers, the selected environmental indicators do not indicate consistent trends with regard to surface water quality. Among early and late liberalizers, nitrate, orthophosphate and ammonium concentrations decline and converge over time. Phosphorus concentrations initially dropped but then increased again for both groups of countries. Using the indicator of biological oxygen demand (BOD) as the dependent variable and a set of structural and economic measures as the independent variables, our econometric regression model provides some evidence for the EKC hypothesis and estimates the per capita income turning point for industrial BOD effl uents to be approximately 3800-5000 USD.

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“…These started in the birthplace of the concept, Western Europe, with studies on ecological modernization in industries ranging from waste management and livestock through to carbon capture and storage in the developed world (Breukers and Wolsink, ; Harring et al ., ; Howes et al ., ; Jay and Morad, ; Jensen and Gram‐Hanssen, ; Scheinberg, ; Schlosberg and Rinfret, ; Tjernshaugen, ; Toke and Strachan, ). More recently though, there have been efforts to expand the concept beyond its origins and consider its applicability in developing and democratizing states (Gille, ; Glenna and Mitev, ; Kehbila et al ., ; Konak, ; Kotilainen et al ., ; Milanez and Buhrs, ; Wattanapinyo and Mol, ; Zhang et al ., ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Growing Green Democracy? Barriers to Ecological Modernization in Democratizing States

O’Brien

2013

Env Pol Gov

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Ecological modernization has established an important position in the field of environmental politics. The adoption of technocratic solutions to environmental challenges is attractive to policymakers. Ecological modernization enables such an approach, in combination with mechanisms for participation and reflexive policy development. However, there are questions regarding the applicability of the concept to political contexts differing from those in the Northern European states in which it first emerged. This paper examines the challenges associated with adopting ecological modernization in the context of democratization and draws on analysis of the development of environmental politics in Bulgaria to illustrate the difficulties identified. The findings suggest that the adoption of ecological modernization during a period of democratization may lead to the hardening of closed technocratic policy-making, limiting wider participation and preventing the development of stronger and more reflexive forms of ecological modernization.

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Europeanising Hungarian Waste Policies: Progress or Regression?

Cited by 10 publications

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Dis/appearing waste and afterwards

Dis/appearing waste and afterwards

Transition and sustainability: empirical analysis of environmental Kuznets curve for water pollution in 25 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States

Growing Green Democracy? Barriers to Ecological Modernization in Democratizing States

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