Business and the Environment [electronic resource]: Policy Incentives and Corporate Responses /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2007.
The analysis of the inner workings of the firm has been largely absent from economic assessments of environmental policy. In an effort to partly fill this vacuum, this book summarises the results of an OECD project which collected and analysed data from over 4,000 facilities in seven OECD countries. Issues addressed include the role of 'flexible' policy instruments in encouraging clean production strategies and environmental research and development; the effectiveness of different environmental policy incentives on the introduction of environmental management systems and tools; and the relationship between environmental and commercial performance.
Also available in French under the title: Entreprises et environnement : l'efficacité des mesures d'incitation.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-114).
Executive summary -- Ch. 1. Project background and coverage of the database -- Ch. 2. Environmental policy regimes and other stakeholders -- Ch. 3. Environmental management systems and tools -- Ch. 4. Environmental performance -- Ch. 5. Clean production and environmental R&D -- Ch. 6. Environmental and commercial synergies -- Ch. 7. Policy conclusions -- Glossary -- Annex 1. Research teams -- Annex 2. Survey design and protocol -- Annex 3. Schedule for data collection -- Annex 4. Supplementary tables -- Annex 5. Selected data by sector and country -- References.
The analysis of the inner workings of the firm has been largely absent from economic assessments of environmental policy. In an effort to partly fill this vacuum, this book summarises the results of an OECD project which collected and analysed data from over 4,000 facilities in seven OECD countries. Issues addressed include the role of 'flexible' policy instruments in encouraging clean production strategies and environmental research and development; the effectiveness of different environmental policy incentives on the introduction of environmental management systems and tools; and the relationship between environmental and commercial performance.
Environmental policy
Environmental management
Economic development
Industries