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This chapter presents analyses of tendencies of current public opinion on issues of environmental policies and regional and cohesion policies across 27 polities of the European Union (EU). Public opinion and mass interest articulations of national electorates are central to studies on EU policies, because they form an important feedback that often implies barrier effects on policy-making and decision-making of governing political elites of the democratic countries concerned. Economic and social transformations associated with development of current post-industrial societies have resulted in the EU in new challenges for environmental policies and regional and cohesion policies.Environmental policy-making was a latecomer to the policy agenda of European integration and has gained gradually in importance since the 1970s.
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Financial support by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic (MSM0021620831) is acknowledged.
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Dostál, P. (2010). Environment and Regional Cohesion in the Enlarged European Union – Differences in Public Opinion. In: Anděl, J., Bičík, I., Dostál, P., Lipský, Z., Shahneshin, S. (eds) Landscape Modelling. Urban and Landscape Perspectives, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3052-8_4
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