The Handbook of Environmental Voluntary Agreements

Design, Implementation and Evaluation Issues

Edoardo Croci - Collection Environment and Policy

392 pages, parution le 30/06/2005

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Environmental voluntary agreements (VAs) between regulators and polluters are becoming an increasingly relevant environmental policy instrument, thanks to their flexibility and consensual character. These agreements can assume a wide variety of forms and aims. Efficiency conditions and effectiveness in their use depend on their design, rules of implementation and framework conditions.

The book provides a comprehensive economic theory and analysis of environmental voluntary agreements, which takes into account the variety of forms and application situations characterizing this environmental policy instrument. Common methodologies, implementation rules and evaluation criteria for researchers, policy makers and business operators in the use of environmental voluntary agreements are discussed.

Case analysis complements the theoretical analysis. A European and an American approach to VAs are distinguished, and cases in China and Australia are also included. National and sector experiences are investigated in order to consider the full range of applications which the flexibility of VAs allows. Opportunities and risks in the use of VAs are examined. Their evaluation, also in comparison and in conjunction with other policy tools, is performed. VAs are still an instrument in evolution, so the trends in their design and enforcement rules are considered.

The authors are mainly economists and law scholars from Universities, research centers, environmental agencies and international institutions. The book is destined to researchers, scholars and graduate and post-graduate students. Most contributions can be of great interest also for environmental officers in various Public Administration administrative and technical bodies and for environmental managers and consultants.

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Preface
Voluntary agreements in environmental policy
The political economy of voluntary agreements
The European and the American approach to environmental voluntary agreements
Design, negotiation and implementation of environmental voluntary agreements: national and sector approach
Evaluation of environmental voluntary agreements
Environmental voluntary agreements in policy mixes
Contributors

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Éditeur(s)	Springer
Auteur(s)	Edoardo Croci
Collection	Environment and Policy
Parution	30/06/2005
Nb. de pages	392
Format	16 x 25
Couverture	Relié
Poids	831g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781402033551
ISBN13	978-1-4020-3355-1