This paper surveys the evidence that environmental auditing systems (EMSs), and the
standard setting bodies represented by ISO 14001 and EMAS, have failed to meet their …

This paper examines the ways in which utopianism permeates both radical and reformist
environmentalism. Utopianism has created'ecotopia', the radical environmentalist's utopia …

Ireland has remained broadly immune to pressure for convergence resulting from EU
membership in the fields of climate and environmental policy. Neither the Global Financial …

Which organisations saw their positions on two contentious issues reflected in the Irish
climate law of 2015, and what role did advocacy coalitions play in the policy process? These …

Municipal waste charges have been widely acknowledged as a crucial tool for waste
management at the local level. This is because they contribute to financing the costly …

This article explores the political structures that shape Irish tourism development and
decision-making. Drawing on two controversial cases of tourism development in the West of …

Why do some member states fail to comply with European Union (EU) environmental
legislation? By focusing on the institutional factors relating to EU compliance, scholars have …

The domestic arena has never been so important for the politics of climate change. The
2015 Paris Agreement on climate change established a global framework that emphasises …

Ireland tends to perform well on those indices that seek to measure and rank government
effectiveness (Boyle 2010; Holmberg, Rothstein and Nasiritousi 2009; Kaufmann, Kraay and …

This chapter provides an overview of Ireland's policy response to climate change. It traces
the evolution of climate policy during four distinct historical phases. The first of these was the …