Leaders and Laggards: Next-Generation Environmental Regulation

ISBN-13: 9781874719496 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 224 str.

Gunningham, Neil

Opis

Consensus is growing internationally that traditional command-and-control approaches to environmental regulation have borne much of their low-hanging fruit. Yet it is far from clear what should complement or replace them. Regulatory agencies and policy-makers are struggling with a lack of information about regulatory reform, about what works and what doesn't, and about how best to harness the resources of both government and non-government stakeholders. Progress is being impeded unnecessarily by a lack of shared knowledge of how similar agencies elsewhere are meeting similar challenges and by a lack of data on the success or otherwise of existing initiatives.

Recenzje

An excellent overview of leading-edge environmental regulation approaches world-wide. - Business Ethics, Fall 2003 || ... one of the most important books on environmental policy design and implementation that has been published in recent years. Leaders and Laggards should be required reading for all policy makers. - The Journal of Corporate Citizenship || This book is aimed at both corporations and small and medium sized businesses in North America and Europe. It shows how existing experience can best be put to practical use by applying the theory of environmental regulation. Detailed case studies provide cross-national assessments of regulation, enterprise size and management styles and how these relate to environmental performance ... This book will benefit those who are interested in achieving better environmental regulation and policy ... - Warmer Bulletin || As a well-organized summary of what is going on in today's policy and regulatory circles, it is very complete ... The authors set out to describe the world of regulatory reform today. In this endeavour, they have succeeded and richly documented their world survey. - Natural Resources Forum || In this important work ... Gunningham and Sinclair look beyond traditional regulatory models ... Leaders and Laggards succeeds in its attempt to shed some light on the path that lies ahead and it certainly deserves to find a place on the bookshelves of anyone interested in environmental regulation. - SEPA View

Spis treści

Preface 1. Introduction2. Regulating small and medium-sized enterprises3. Partnerships, EMSs and the search for regulatory surrogates in the smash repair industry4. Refrigeration and air-conditioning: co-regulation and industry self-management5. Cleaner production and the Victorian vegetable growers6. Regulating large enterprises7. Voluntary approaches to environmental protection: lessons from the mining sector8. Community empowerment and regulatory flexibility: EIPs and accredited licensing9. Conclusion: reconfiguring environmental regulation

O autorze

Neil Gunningham, Darren Sinclair