Voluntary Approaches in Environmental Policy
In recent years, voluntary approaches to emission reductions have increasingly been adopted by major companies all over the world and have increasingly been supported by regulatory bodies and public administrations. Despite this world-wide effort to achieve a better environmental performance through...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1999, 1999
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1999 |
| Series: | Economics, Energy and Environment
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: The rationale and potential of voluntary approaches
- 2. Externalities, collective goods and the requirement of a state’s intervention in pollution abatement
- 3. Environmental regulation through voluntary agreements
- 4. Voluntary agreements in environmental policy: negotiating emission reductions
- 5. The cost efficiency of voluntary agreements for regulating industrial pollution: a Coasean approach
- 6. Can Austrian economics provide a new approach to environmental policy?
- 7. Voluntary approaches to environmental protection: the role of legislative threats
- 8. Environmental industrial regulation and the private codes question
- 9. The influence of information-based initiatives and negotiated environmental agreements on technological change
- 10. A dynamic model of environmental policies. The case of innovation oriented voluntary agreements
- 11. Voluntary agreements with industry
- 12. Voluntary agreements as an instrument to substitute regulating and economic instruments: Lessons from the German voluntary agreements on CO2 reduction
- 13. Voluntary approaches, the environment and the law: a Canadian perspective