Voluntary Environmental Agreements : Process, Practice and Future Use.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Prologue -- PART A: Process, practice and stakeholder experience -- Part A: Introduction -- 1. Voluntary environmental initiatives and sustainable industry -- 2. Corporate incentives for participation in voluntary environmental agreements: electric utility companies and the Climate Challenge Program -- 3. Co-operative environmental solutions: acquiring competence for multi-stakeholder partnerships -- 4. Legitimacy, efficacy and efficiency: factors affecting public participation in environmental agreements in British Columbia, Canada -- 5. Conflict or collaboration: the New Zealand Forest Accord -- 6. Successful application of environmental agreements in local communities: perspectives from environment and pollution control agreements in Japan -- 7. The chemical industry in Germany: recent developments of the 1987 Chemical Industries Social Partners' Agreement on Environmental Protection -- 8. A new trade union role in environmental agreements: a driving force for sustainable development -- 9. EU-level agreements: a successful tool? Lessons from the agreement with the automotive industry -- PART B: New areas for VEAs? Developing countries and transition economies -- Part B: Introduction -- 10. A role for negotiated environmental agreements in developing countries? -- 11. A national tripartite agreement on benzene in Brazil -- 12. Environmental agreements as appropriate long-term measures -- 13. Negotiated voluntary environmental agreements: cases in the Czech Republic -- 14. Navigating toward a Hungarian packaging waste management solution -- 15. Conditions for environmental agreements in Ukraine -- 16. Step-by-step procedure for preparing, concluding and evaluating voluntary agreements.

PART C: Can voluntary agreements help address climate change? -- Part C: Introduction -- 17. The Australian Greenhouse Challenge programme: a perspective from a participating university -- 18. Application of effectiveness analysis: the case of greenhouse gas emissions reduction -- 19. Voluntary agreements: key to higher energy efficiency in industry? -- 20. Environmental agreements in climate politics -- 21. Negotiated environmental agreements and CO2 emissions trading -- 22. Voluntary agreements: an effective tool for enhancing organisational learning and improving climate policy-making? -- PART D: Future use: tools for developing agreements -- Part D: Introduction -- 23. Voluntary agreements: effectiveness analysis. Tools, guidelines and checklist -- 24. Assessing the performance of negotiated environmental agreements in the Netherlands -- 25. Co-regulation performance factors: lessons from theory and from practice in environmental agreements -- 26. The EIA public enquiry procedure as a model for public participation in environmental agreements -- 27. Monitoring environmental agreements: a multi-level conformity approach. Sustainable water management in the Twente region -- 28. Monitoring mechanisms for efficient environmental agreements -- 29. Voluntary environmental agreements between private and public law -- 30. The optimal policy mix: matching ends and means in environmental policy-making -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- List of abbreviations -- Author biographies -- Index.

Voluntary environmental agreements (VEAs) have been regarded as a key new instrument for meeting environmental objectives in a flexible manner. The aim of this book is to highlight and learn the lessons from existing experience.

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