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An analysis of the arguments and rationales given by the actors in the field of environmental policy may help us understand why certain policy instruments are or are not adopted, and why they are or are not effective in dealing with the problems at hand. Rather than being a study on the implementation process, the following pages will focus on the design and selection of policy instruments. The reason for this is that problems inherent in the formulation of instruments will influence their adoption and implementation. Research on the implementation of policy instruments is necessary to discern the difficulties to be faced when theories are put into practice and general concepts are put into a specific context; but more attention to the very development of policy instruments is needed to understand why certain instruments (among the many possible ones) are adopted and are successfully or unsuccessfully implemented.
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Liberatore, A. (1995). Arguments, Assumptions and the Choice of Policy Instruments. In: Dente, B. (eds) Environmental Policy in Search of New Instruments. Environment, Science and Society, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8504-0_4
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