ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the optimal institutional level of action, the foreign environmental policy, the environmental mediation, the international regimes, the structural system, and the global commons approaches. It outlines some of their implications for practical environmental policy. The chapter examines how the approaches are interrelated along with conclusions for further research. H. Bungarten, von Moltke and U. Weinstock analyze European environmental policy as a complex structure consisting of supranational, national and subnational elements. Foreign and environmental policies differ in some respects: whereas foreign policy is a well-established, traditional political field, environmental policy has only recently developed and represents a brand new political issue in some countries. Accordingly, to search for common or overlapping environmental interests is the most sound strategy of foreign environmental policy. Procedures belonging to the strategy of political or legal pressure include, for example, publicizing foreign environmental pollution, initiating transboundary litigation and threatening to apply economic sanctions.
