Overview
"Voluntary Approaches in Climate Policy illustrates how corporate voluntarism can be harnessed to mitigate the climatic impact of business, and assesses the economics of VAs at the firm level and in the context of climate policies. It goes on to explore their efficiency and effectiveness, how they compare and combine with other instruments, how they impact competition and why they get adopted." Highlighting the implications of VAs in policy terms, this book will appeal to economists, social scientists, policymakers and business managers, as well as environmental scientists and practitioners with a specific interest in climate change.Synopsis
The initial assumption here is that people in the upper echelons of business and politics have finally caught up with average people in realizing that they can and must contribute to reducing environmental damage even if no one is making them. Scholars of economics and management from Europe and the US explore how corporate voluntarism can be harnessed to mitigate the impact business has on the climate. They focus on the economics of voluntary approaches, their advantages and disadvantages from an economic perspective, and how they compare with other climate policy instruments. They use a range of different methods, and minimize or forgo the theoretical modelling to emphasize the intuition of their results so that non- specialists can stay in the game. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR