Voluntary Approaches for Environmental Policy [electronic resource] : An Assessment
Publishing, OECD.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development StaffCorporate Author
Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2000.
Voluntary approaches are schemes whereby firms make commitments to improve their environmental performance.They cover arrangements such as public voluntary programmes, negotiated agreements or unilateral commitments. Until recently, voluntary approaches have not been subject to systematic analysis, inasmuch as, unlike taxes and tradable permits, they have not been prescribed by economic theory. Voluntary approaches were ""invented"" by those who devise and implement them: policy-makers, business associations, individual firms, non-governmental associations, etc. The use of voluntary approaches
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Foreword; Table of Contents; Executive Summary; Chapter 1. The Economic Analysis of Voluntary Approaches; Chapter 2. Empirical Evidence of the Use of Voluntary Approaches in OECD Countries; Chapter 3. Towards an Evaluation of Voluntary Approaches; Chapter 4. Conclusions and Recommendations; References
Voluntary approaches are schemes whereby firms make commitments to improve their environmental performance.They cover arrangements such as public voluntary programmes, negotiated agreements or unilateral commitments. Until recently, voluntary approaches have not been subject to systematic analysis, inasmuch as, unlike taxes and tradable permits, they have not been prescribed by economic theory. Voluntary approaches were ""invented"" by those who devise and implement them: policy-makers, business associations, individual firms, non-governmental associations, etc. The use of voluntary approaches
Environmental policy.