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Having had the opportunity of receiving considerable public money (mainly from the Swiss National Science Foundation) for numerous en- ronmental policy studies in Switzerland and abroad during the last 25 years, I have decided to put the results – published mainly in German and French but also in English in many scientific journals, monographs and book sections – in a single book on behalf of my students, younger sch- ars interested in policy analysis dating from the period of the first en- ronmental policies, and my friends teaching this subject in Switzerland and abroad. The criteria used to select the fifteen contributions were their impact on the scientific debate at the time of their publication, their validity for p- sent conceptualizations of policy analysis in the field of the environment, 1 and their contribution to the development of policy analysis as a whole . Moreover, the selected contributions mainly focus on empirical appli- tions in the field of environmental policies or the interface between en- ronmental and non-environmental policies. Some have led to concrete p- icy recommendations of which most have been partly implemented since, at least within my own country. This research also sometimes addressed regional political administrative arrangements leading to administrative reforms and new strategic directions of implementing agencies.

Environmental policy --- Research --- History. --- Environment and state --- Environmental control --- Environmental management --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Government policy --- Pollution. --- Environmental management. --- Environmental law. --- Pollution, general. --- Environmental Management. --- Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice. --- Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Environmental engineering --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Environment law --- Law --- Sustainable development --- Environmental aspects --- Law and legislation --- Environmental policy. --- Environmental monitoring. --- Biomonitoring (Ecology) --- Ecological monitoring --- Monitoring, Environmental --- Applied ecology --- Measurement --- Monitoring

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By the end of the 1970s, contaminated sites had emerged as one of the most complex and urgent environmental issues affecting industrialized countries. The authors show that small and prosperous Switzerland is no exception to the pervasive problem of sites contamination, the legacy of past practices in waste management having left some 38,000 contaminated sites throughout the country. This book outlines the problem, offering evidence that open and polycentric environmental decision-making that includes civil society actors is valuable. They propose an understanding of environmental management of contaminated sites as a political process in which institutions frame interactions between strategic actors pursuing sometimes conflicting interests. In the opening chapter, the authors describe the influences of politics and the power relationships between actors involved in decision-making in contaminated sites management, which they term a “wicked problem.” Chapter Two offers a theoretical framework for understanding institutions and the environmental management of contaminated sites. The next five chapters present a detailed case study on environmental management and contaminated sites in Switzerland, focused on the Bonfol Chemical Landfill. The study and analysis covers the establishment of the landfill under the first generation of environmental regulations, its closure and early remediation efforts, and the gambling on the remediation objectives, methods and funding in the first decade of the 21st Century. The concluding chapter discusses the question of whether the strength of environmental regulations, and the type of interactions between public, private, and civil society actors can explain the environmental choices in contaminated sites management. Drawing lessons from research, the authors debate the value of institutional flexibility for dealing with environmental issues such as contaminated sites.

Environment. --- Environmental Management. --- Comparative Politics. --- Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice. --- Political Science, general. --- Waste Management/Waste Technology. --- Sustainable Development. --- Environmental sciences. --- Environmental law. --- Environmental management. --- Waste disposal. --- Sustainable development. --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Environnement --- Développement durable --- Droit --- Gestion --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Environmental Sciences --- Hazardous waste sites --- Management. --- Chemical landfills --- Contaminated sites --- Dumps, Toxic --- Hazardous waste disposal sites --- Hazardous waste facilities --- Superfund sites --- Toxic dumps --- Political science. --- Comparative politics. --- Environmental policy. --- Waste management. --- Political Science. --- Waste disposal sites --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Environment law --- Environmental control --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- Environmental policy --- Law --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Political science --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Environmental aspects --- Law and legislation --- Environment and state --- Environmental management --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Government policy