Sussidiarietà e ambiente. Nuove dinamiche in tema di governance ambientale.

Abstract

The relations between public and private constitute a significant observatory for grasping some of the most complex and still open questions linked to the theme of environmental policies: first of all, the institutional question, and therefore the search for optimal levels of environmental governance, a theme that intersects and it is conditioned, in turn, by the other question, of a functional nature, of the search for the best approaches and intervention tools for environmental protection.

Thus, this perspective shows, immediately, the initial and still dominant, in some ways infungible, approach of public intervention - expressed by the so-called command and control model - which translates, from an organizational point of view, into the primacy of the public and, on a functional level, in the hegemony of the use of administrative powers, expressed in various forms: constraints, plans, standards, authorisations, controls, sanctions.