Tutorial given by
Gjalt
Huppes
29
May 2000
Budapest
The aim of the tutorial is to give a long term sustainability
perspective on policy instrumentation
in environmental policy, within a broad, also strategic, evaluative
framework.
To arrive at integrated insight, the basic function of policy
instruments is discussed: why do you need them at all. It comes out that it is
not at all clear how policy instruments can be classified and described. Nor is
it clear how a consistent evaluation of policy instruments can be set up.
One basic problem in discussions on policy instruments is that not only
their effects but also their function is context dependent. This implies that
for basic, long term decisions on policy instrumentation general structural,
cultural and economic tendencies have to be taken into account.
Within these vague and fluid boundaries, practical guidelines are given
for policy development at a case level. A text is provided as study material.
This will become a chapter in a forthcoming book on environmental science, to
be published by Kluwer by the end of the year 2000. The authors of the chapter
are Gjalt Huppes, CML at Leiden University and Udo E. Simonis, Wissenschaftszentrum
Berlin.