About the Book
Governments have at their disposal a broad range of policy instruments that they may use to influence behaviour and pursue environmental policy goals. This volume of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law is a comprehensive guide to these environmental policy instruments, examining their characteristics, applications, strengths and limitations, as well as giving an overview of the most significant issues related to their adoption and effectiveness.
With entries written by leading international scholars, this incisive volume provides insight into the cross-cutting issues that are common to discussions of such policy instruments, including the legal bases for their use, how instruments can be compared for costs, distributional questions, and monitoring and enforcement. Contributions also explore hybrids and blends of policy instruments and explain the relationships between them, using case studies and examples from around the world, as well as providing succinct summaries of the substantial literature in the field.
Students and scholars in environmental law will find this volume to be an invaluable resource, for both its solid theoretical foundations and its analysis of undertreated issues in the field. Its discussion of how and why each policy tool might be used is particularly relevant for policymakers and practitioners.
Contributors include: A.D.K. Abelkop, C. Coglianese, M.A. Cohen, D.H. Cole, C.M. Correa, N. de Sadeleer, R.C. Feiock, P.Z. Grossman, N. Gunningham, S. Hayes Richards, M. Howlett, S.-L. Hsu, B. Huber, O. Karassin, B.C. Karkkainen, S.E. Light, L.M.J. McCann, J.E. Milne, I. Mukherjee, E.W. Orts, O. Perez, K.R. Richards, T.M. Roberts, A. Rowell, S. Roy, J.P. Shimshack, H. Sigman, D. Sinclair, S. Starobin, S.E. Weishaar, E. Woerdman, H. Yi, J. van Zeben
Table of Contents:
Contents:
Foreword to the Encyclopedia
Foreword to Volume VIII
Introduction to Volume VIII: Instruments for environmental policy
Kenneth R. Richards and Josephine Van Zeben
PART 1 - General Issues in Environmental Policy Instruments
1. Governmental environmental action: legal bases And restraints
Josephine Van Zeben
2. Beyond compliance costs: comparing the total costs of alternative regulatory instruments
Daniel H. Cole and Peter Z. Grossman
3. Public and private interactions in global environmental governance
Orr Karassin and Oren Perez
4. Distributional concerns in environmental policy instruments
Suryapratim Roy
5. Monitoring, enforcement, and the choice of environmental policy instruments
Mark A. Cohen and Jay P. Shimshack
6. Designing public participation in the policy process: a critical review of procedural instrument theory
Michael Howlett and Ishani Mukherjee
7. Politics and policy instrument choice
Richard C. Feiock and Hongtao Yi
8. Behavioural instruments in environmental regulation
Arden Rowell
9. Transaction costs considerations in instrument choice, design and implementation
Laura M.J. McCann
PART 2 - Examining the Environmental Policy Instruments
10. The range of policy instruments
Kenneth R. Richards
Instruments to Change Behavior
11. Explaining the persistence of ‘command-and-control’ in US environmental law
Daniel H. Cole
12. Environmental taxes
Janet E. Milne
13. Prices versus quantities
Shi-Ling Hsu
14. Subsidies and the environment
Tracey M. Roberts
15. Public and private procurement in environmental governance
Sarah E. Light and Eric W. Orts
16. The role of tort law in environmental and public health governance
Adam D.K. Abelkop
17. Property rights
Bruce Huber
18. Emissions trading: design, diffusion and drawbacks
Edwin Woerdman
Instruments to Create and Disseminate Information
19. Patents as environmental policy instruments
Carlos M. Correa
20. Management-based regulation
Cary Coglianese and Shana Starobin
21. Mandated information – reporting
Bradley C. Karkkainen
Instrument Mixes, Hybrids, and Blends
22. Environmental offset programmes
Kenneth R. Richards
23. Regulatory pluralism and regulatory mix
Neil Gunningham and Darren Sinclair
24. Voluntary environmental agreements
Stephanie Hayes Richards and Kenneth R. Richards
25. Deposit-refunds
Hilary Sigman
International Issues in Policy Instruments
26. Linking of climate change policies
Stefan E. Weishaar
27. Environmental protection through legal acts and instruments by the European Union
Nicolas de Sadeleer
Index
About the Author :
Edited by Kenneth R. Richards, Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, US and Josephine van Zeben, Chair of Transnational Law, Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Italy
Review :
'This is an impressive book, edited and written by many leading colleagues in the field internationally. It reflects upon the wide variety of policy instruments governments nowadays have at their disposal to develop and implement environmental, energy, climate and sustainability policies. Their work shows that many governments still have not managed to get their act together on this. This volume will therefore be a beacon of light in the dark.'
--Kurt Deketelaere, KU Leuven, Belgium'In this important volume, the editors - Kenneth Richards and Josephine van Zeben - have assembled an impressive set of entries that provide a remarkably comprehensive description and assessment of the diverse set of policy instruments which can be used by governments to achieve their environmental objectives in the face of market failures.'
--Robert N. Stavins, Harvard University, US
