National environmental policy planning in OECD countries: Preliminary lessons from cross‐national comparisons

Abstract

While the first part of the article focuses on the possible advantages of strategic and integrative planning in environmental policy, the second part looks at existing national planning approaches in OECD countries, underlining important differences and similarities, and attempting a preliminary evaluation of three national environmental policy plans. On this empirical basis the article represents an attempt to systematise existing approaches and to draft model stages in environmental planning.