Voluntary approaches for environmental policy
Subtitle: effectiveness, efficiency and usage in policy mixes.
Contributors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Environmental policy; Voluntarism
Description: Do voluntary approaches deliver the expected environmental benefits?  Do they help reach environmental targets in a cost-effective way?  This report provides an assessment of the use of voluntary approaches building on a number of new case studies.  Analysis is on the environmental effectiveness, economic efficiency and the administrative costs either used in isolation or as part of "policy mixes".  The book concludes that the environmental effectiveness of voluntary approaches is often questionable, and their economic efficiency is generally low.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-143).