Environmental Policymaking

Michael T. Hatch

Description

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.

List of Illustrations

1. Assessing Environmental Policy Instruments: An Introduction
Michael T. Hatch

2. Environmental Labeling, Innovation and the Toolbox of Environmental Policy: Lessons Learned from the German Blue Angel Program
Edda Muller

3. Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Protection: Private Initiatives and Public Goods
Ronnie D. Lipschutz

4. The Role of ISO 14000 and the Greening of Japanese Industry
Eric Welch and Miranda A. Schreurs

5. Voluntary Agreements: Cornerstone or Fig-Leaf in German Climate Change Policy?
Michael T. Hatch

6. Ecological Tax Reform in Germany: Economic and Political Analysis of an Evolving Policy
Michael Kohlhaas and Bettina Meyer

7. Assessing the Flexible Mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol: Implications of Joint Implementation and the Clean Development Mechanism for National Policy Instruments
Andreas Oberheitmann

8. The Costs and Benefits of Emissions Trading
Gary C. Bryner

9. Environmental Impact Statements: Gift Box or Black Box?
Walter A. Rosenbaum

10. Institutional and Technological Constraints on Environmental Instrument Choice: A Case Study of the U.S. Clean Air Act
Daniel H. Cole and Peter Z. Grossman

11. Conclusion
Michael T. Hatch

Contributors

Index

Sujets

• International relations
• Central
• National

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791483817
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Environmental Policymaking

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Environmental

Policymaking

Assessing the Use of Alternative Policy Instruments

Edited by Michael T. Hatch

State University of New York Press

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Environmental policymaking : assessing the use of alternative policy instruments / edited by Michael T. Hatch p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-6347-8 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-6348-6 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Environmental policy. I. Hatch, Michael T., 1945–

GE170.E57695 2005 363.7'0561—dc22

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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To Carol, Benjamin, and Becca and In memory of Ernie: teacher, mentor, friend

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Contents

Assessing Environmental Policy Instruments: An Introduction Michael T. Hatch

Environmental Labeling, Innovation, and the Toolbox of Environmental Policy: Lessons Learned from the German Blue Angel Program Edda Müller

Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Protection: Private Initiatives and Public Goods Ronnie D. Lipschutz

The Role of ISO 14000 and the Greening of Japanese Industry Eric Welch and Miranda A. Schreurs

Voluntary Agreements: Cornerstone or Fig Leaf in German Climate Change Policy? Michael T. Hatch

Ecological Tax Reform in Germany: Economic and Political Analysis of an Evolving Policy Michael Kohlhaas and Bettina Meyer

Assessing the Flexible Mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol: Implications of Joint Implementation and the Clean Development Mechanism for National Policy Instruments Andreas Oberheitmann

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The Costs and Benefits of Emissions Trading Gar y C. Br yner

Environmental Impact Statements: Gift Box or Black Box? Walter A. Rosenbaum

Institutional and Technological Constraints on Environmental Instrument Choice: A Case Study of the U.S. Clean Air Act Daniel H. Cole and Peter Z. Grossman

Conclusion Michael T. Hatch

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New adoptions of ISO 9000 by country, 1995–2000

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Leading national shares of global ISO 14001 certifications, 2000

Registered ISO 14001 private sector organizations in Asian countries

Management changes undertaken by ISO 14001 adopters in Japan

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CO emissions: simulated effects of the ecological 2 fiscal reform

Employment: simulated effects of the ecological fiscal reform

Environmental additionality

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