7 STEPS TOWARDS AN INSTRUMENTATION THEORY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL-POLICY

This article focuses on the questions of the effectiveness of the instruments of environmental policy. After an inspection of the tool kit, a discussion of advantages and disadvantages of various control models is started. The legal, the economic, the communication and the spatial control model are distinguished. On the basis of this discussion elements of a practical instrumentation theory for environmental policy are introduced. The lessons learned provide the principles on which strategies to deal with complex environmental problems may be based.