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EU Expansion, Scientific Debate, and Transatlantic Environmental Governance
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EU expansion, scientific debate, and environmental governance:
Does the EU risk repeating the North American experience?
by Chad M Briggs
Assistant Professor of Political Science & Environmental Studies
California State University Fullerton
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Paper presented for the ‘Transatlantic Environmental Relations Beyond 2004' panel
Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii
March 2, 2005
Draft copy, please do not cite.
Abstract: Changes in the science and technology sectors of Central and East European states since the1980s have resulted in enormous changes to the composition, access, and influence of the scientificcommunity upon environmental policy. Such changes were drastic enough during the transition fromcommunist rule, but when combined with subsequent accession into the European Union, the influence ofthe science community upon the environmental debate has become even more complicated and less wellunderstood. This paper examines the role that the scientific community of the new EU member statesplays in legitimating the EU’s environmental discourse of risk and the precautionary principle, andargues that the accession process has posed severe challenges to the ability of the science and technologycommunities to positively influence larger environmental debates. By comparing the experience of theUnited States in increasingly centralized decision-making processes, the EU risks marginalizing vitalcriticism in the same manner as has occurred in the US and Canada. The consequences of this mayinclude a move from the precautionary principle to NIMBY-ism in CEE states, and loss of internationalenvironmental leadership on the part of the EU.
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EU expansion, scientific debate, and environmental governance:
Does the EU risk repeating the North American experience?
by Chad M Briggs
Assistant Professor of Political Science & Environmental Studies
California State University Fullerton
Paper presented for the ‘Transatlantic Environmental Relations Beyond 2004' panel
Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii
March 2, 2005
Draft copy, please do not cite.
Abstract: Changes in the science and technology sectors of Central and East European states since the
1980s have resulted in enormous changes to the composition, access, and influence of the scientific
community upon environmental policy. Such changes were drastic enough during the transition from
communist rule, but when combined with subsequent accession into the European Union, the influence of
the science community upon the environmental debate has become even more complicated and less well
understood. This paper examines the role that the scientific community of the new EU member states
plays in legitimating the EU’s environmental discourse of risk and the precautionary principle, and
argues that the accession process has posed severe challenges to the ability of the science and technology
communities to positively influence larger environmental debates. By comparing the experience of the
United States in increasingly centralized decision-making processes, the EU risks marginalizing vital
criticism in the same manner as has occurred in the US and Canada. The consequences of this may
include a move from the precautionary principle to NIMBY-ism in CEE states, and loss of international
environmental leadership on the part of the EU.
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