CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Margaryan, Lusine |
|---|---|
| Title | Capacity Building for National Environmental Policy: The Case of Armenia |
| Summary | The concept of capacity building becomes more and more popular with the environmental protection as well as other sectors. Despite there is still no universal agreement on what exactly is meant by this term, most of the experts agree that all the definitions include such notions as ability of the society to identify and solve environmental problems. According to the framework, developed in the Free University of Berlin, the successful implementation of National Environmental Policies for every country depends more on the presence of capacities of different factors, rather than selection of a proper policy tool, i.e. the ‘governmental failure’ is not always the case. The factors affecting the general ‘capacity’ are highly interwoven and cannot be understood and developed in isolation from each other. Based on this theory, capacity building necessary for the implementation of National Environmental Policies of 36 different countries has been studied. The success or failure of the policies has been explained through the capacity situation of the specific factor and the framework proved to be applicable to any case. Based on this model, in this thesis an attempt is made to apply the aforementioned Framework to the case of the Republic of Armenia. Each factor affecting the success of the environmental policies has been studied independently and in connection with each other. As a result of this research, capacity shortcomings for the implementation of the National Environmental Policy in Armenia have been identified and recommendations have been given for the further development. Apart from that, the further comparison of the Armenian case with other already studied countries became possible. |
| Supervisor | Alexios Antypas |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/margaryan_lusine.pdf |
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