Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- What Is Good Environmental Performance? -- Explaining Performance -- Structural Change -- Public Opinion and Environmental Mobilization -- Economic and Political Institutions -- Case Selection and Methodological Approach -- 2 Measuring National Environmental Performance -- What Is Environmental Performance? -- Environmental Performance Compared -- Ambient Quality versus Emissions as Measures of Performance -- Levels or Changes? -- The Measures -- Sulfur Oxides -- Nitrogen Oxides -- Municipal Waste -- Recycling -- Wastewater Treatment -- Fertilizer Use -- Summary -- Aggregate Environmental Performance -- 3 Economic Development, Geographic Advantage, and Environmental Performance -- Income Growth and Environmental Protection -- Structural Economic Change and Environmental Performance -- The Structure of the Economy -- Economic Growth -- Geographical Advantage -- Conclusion -- 4 Public Opinion, Environmental Mobilization, and Environmental Performance -- Environmental Mobilization -- Are Opinion and Performance Related? -- Data -- General Concern for the Environment -- Economic Trade-offs and "Willingness to Pay" -- Environmental Organizations and Parties -- Postmaterialism -- Does Income Promote Environmental Mobilization? -- Combining Indicators of Environmental Mobilization -- Public Mobilization and Environmental Performance -- Conclusion -- 5 Pluralism, Corporatism, and Environmental Performance -- Institutions in the Comparative Environmental Policy Literature -- The Emergence of Institutions for Environmental Policy -- Critiques of Neocorporatism -- False Economic Trade-offs -- The Pursuit of "Postmaterialist" Goals.

The Exclusion of Environmentalists from Policy Making and Implementation -- Comparative Advantages of Neocorporatism -- Organization of Interests -- Summary -- Empirical Analysis -- Conclusion -- 6 Political Institutions -- Dimensions of Institutional Variation in Democratic Society -- Single-Party versus Coalition Government -- Unified versus Separation-of-Powers Systems -- Federal versus Unitary Political Systems -- Proportional and Plurality Electoral Representation -- Political Correlates of Environmental Performance -- Multivariate Analysis -- Income and Environmental Performance Reconsidered -- Conclusion -- 7 Checking the Robustness of the Results -- Diagnosing Influential Observations -- Do the Results Hold in Europe Only? -- Revisiting the Environmental Performance Indicator -- Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion -- APPENDIX I Estimated Measures of Environmental Performance -- NO and SO -- Waste -- Recycling -- Wastewater Treatment -- Fertilizer -- APPENDIX II Institutions for Environmental Policy Making in Fourteen Countries -- Austria (strong) -- Canada (very weak) -- Denmark (very strong) -- Finland (very strong) -- France (weak) -- Western Germany (strong/very strong) -- Italy (weak) -- Japan (strong) -- The Netherlands (very strong) -- Norway (very strong) -- Spain (very weak) -- Sweden (very strong) -- United Kingdom (weak) -- United States (very weak) -- References -- Index.