Acid politics: environmental and energy policies in Britain and Germany

This book is a case study of the efforts made during the 1980s to resolve a major international environmental problem, acid rain, in two West European countries, the UK and the Federal Republic of Germany. The acid rain problem itself has been the subject of many publications. This book differs from many of those previously published in that it is concerned almost exclusively with the social, political, administrative and economic pressures which led to policy-making taking the particular course that it did. It is not the primary concern to describe the science of acid rain or the technical means for reducing it. The policy-making processes themselves in the UK and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) are the focus of attention. (author).