BfN Schriften 454 - Peatlands in the EU Regulatory Environment
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BfN-Schriften
This study attempts to portray the main peat-focused or peat-sensitive EU policies, but also to highlight those EU regulatory regimes, which have, or risk to cause a negative impact on peatland conservation and restoration in Europe.
Editor
Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
Year of publication
2017
Edition
454
Language
English
Pages
103
Description
The study is ultimately meant to show to what extent the legislator has created a conflict of objectives which may explain the mixed results in regulatory effectiveness, but also to identify regulatory gaps, oversights and missed opportunities, which to tap into may prove viable without incurring too much in economic or political costs.