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Voluntary Approaches in Environmental Policy

Name: Voluntary Approaches in Environmental Policy
Author: Carlo Carraro
ISBN: 9789401593113

by Carlo Carraro, François Lévêque

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Carlo Carraro, François Lévêque. The strategies space and game tree analysis The strategy choice fits with the peers joining principle . The outsiders strategy is to cooperate ( i.e. to adopt the expected behaviour by the peers ) or to ...

Synopsis

In recent years, voluntary approaches to emission reductions have increasingly been adopted by major companies all over the world and have increasingly been supported by regulatory bodies and public administrations. Despite this world-wide effort to achieve a better environmental performance through voluntary approaches, economic analysis has somehow neglected the importance of voluntary approaches as an environmental policy instrument. This book is a first attempt to fill this gap by gathering together all major experts in the fields and by providing a detailed analysis of all main aspects characterising the design and implementation of voluntary approaches in environmental policy. The book, which is the outcome of cooperation between the École des Mines of Paris and the Fondazione ENI E. Mattei, within the EU Concerted Action on Market Based Policy Instruments for Environmental Protection, contains both theoretical analyses and case studies. The chapters of this book therefore provide a useful assessment of the main features and of the potential implementation problems of a new, important and promising environmental policy instrument.