Environmental Policymaking
Assessing the Use of Alternative Policy Instruments
- 276 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
Case studies that assess the value of new approaches to environmental policymaking in the United States and abroad.
The methods employed in the pursuit of environmental protection are often highly contested, leading to alternative policy approaches. This book details the frequently neglected topic of these alternative approaches to environmental policymaking through case studies drawn primarily from the United States, Germany, and Japan. Among the policy instruments analyzed are eco-audits, voluntary agreements, tradable permits, green taxes, environmental impact assessments, and command and control regulations. Also examined are international regulatory arrangements to encourage sustainable forestry management practices. Various evaluative criteria are applied to each case study, including environmental effectiveness, economic and political efficiency, administrative efficacy, and technological innovation.
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Table of contents
- Environmental Policymaking: Assessing the Use of Alternative Policy Instruments
- Contents
- Illustrations
- 1. Assessing EnvironmentalPolicy Instruments: An Introduction
- 2. Environmental Labeling, Innovation, and the Toolbox of Environmental Policy: Lessons Learned from the German Blue Angel Program
- 3. Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Protection: Private Initiatives and Public Goods
- 4. The Role of ISO 14000 and the Greening of Japanese Industry
- 5. Voluntary Agreements: Cornerstone or Fig Leaf in German Climate Change Policy?
- 6. Ecological Tax Reform in Germany: Economic and Political Analysis of an Evolving Policy
- 7. Assessing the Flexible Mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol: Implications of Joint Implementation and the Clean Development Mechanism for National Policy Instruments
- 8. The Costs and Benefits of Emissions Trading
- 9. Environmental Impact Statements: Gift Box or Black Box?
- 10. Institutional and Technological Constraints on Environmental Instrument Choice: A Case Study of the U.S. Clean Air Act
- Conclusion
- Contributors
- Index