Title Voluntary environmental agreements : process, practice and future use / contributing editor Patrick ten Brink

Published London : Routledge, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Part, PART B: New areas for VEAs? Developing countries and transition economies -- chapter 1 Voluntary environmental initiatives and sustainable industry -- chapter 2 Corporate incentives for participation in voluntary environmental agreements: electric utility companies and the Climate Challenge Program -- chapter 3 Co-operative environmental solutions: acquiring competence for multi-stakeholder partnerships -- chapter 4 Legitimacy, efficacy and efficiency: factors affecting public participation in environmental agreements in British Columbia, Canada -- chapter 5 Conflict or collaboration: the New Zealand Forest Accord / Diane Menzies Menzies Environmental Ltd -- chapter 6 Successful application of environmental agreements in local communities: perspectives from environment and pollution control agreements in Japan -- chapter 7 The chemical industry in Germany: recent developments of the 1987 Chemical Industries Social Partners' Agreement on Environmental Protection -- chapter 8 A new trade union role in environmental agreements: a driving force for sustainable development -- chapter 9 EU-level agreements: a successful tool? Lessons from the agreement with the automotive industry -- chapter Part B: Introduction -- chapter 10 A role for negotiated environmental agreements in developing countries? -- chapter 11 A national tripartite agreement on benzene in Brazil -- chapter 12 Environmental agreements as appropriate long-term measures -- chapter 13 Negotiated voluntary environmental agreements: cases in the Czech Republic -- chapter 14 Navigating toward a Hungarian packaging waste management solution -- chapter 15 Conditions for environmental agreements in Ukraine -- chapter 16 Step-by-step procedure for preparing, concluding and evaluating voluntary agreements -- part, PART C: Can voluntary agreements help address climate change? -- chapter Part C: Introduction -- chapter 17 The Australian Greenhouse Challenge programme: a perspective from a participating university -- chapter 18 Application of effectiveness analysis: the case of greenhouse gas emissions reduction -- chapter 19 Voluntary agreements: key to higher energy efficiency in industry? -- chapter 20 Environmental agreements in climate politics -- chapter 21 Negotiated environmental agreements and CO2 emissions trading -- chapter 22 Voluntary agreements: an effective tool for enhancing organisational learning and improving climate policy-making? -- part, PART D: Future use: tools for developing agreements -- chapter Part D: Introduction -- chapter 23 Voluntary agreements: effectiveness analysis. Tools, guidelines and checklist -- chapter 24 Assessing the performance of negotiated environmental agreements in the Netherlands -- chapter 25 Co-regulation performance factors: lessons from theory and from practice in environmental agreements -- chapter 26 The EIA public enquiry procedure as a model for public participation in environmental agreements -- chapter 27 Monitoring environmental agreements: a multi-level conformity approach. Sustainable water management in the Twente region -- chapter 28 Monitoring mechanisms for efficient environmental agreements -- chapter 29 Voluntary environmental agreements between private and public law -- chapter 30 The optimal policy mix: matching ends and means in environmental policy-making -- chapter Epilogue -- chapter Bibliography -- chapter List of abbreviations -- chapter Author biographies Summary "Voluntary environmental agreements (VEAs)--generally agreements between government and business--have been regarded by many as a key new instrument for meeting environmental objectives in a flexible manner. Their performance to date has, however, also led to considerable criticism, with several parties arguing that they are methods for avoiding real action that goes beyond "business-as-usual". Is either of these positions justified? The aim of this book is to highlight and learn the lessons from existing experience, looking not just at results but also at specific elements of agreements and also at the process of the agreement itself. Lessons are drawn from experience from across the world, covering the full range of environmental challenges, and from the perspective of key stakeholder groups. Importantly, the book also presents tools for assessing and improving existing agreements and includes recommendations and guidelines for future agreements in key areas such as climate change. It also deals at length with the problem of how such agreements might be used in developing and transitional economies. The overall view of the book is that there is a real potential for the future use of VEAs as part of the policy mix and as a tool for sharing the responsibility for meeting environmental objectives. For the agreements to play this role, however, significant steps are needed to ensure that they are effective, efficient, equitable and appropriately linked to a portfolio of other instruments. The book is divided into four sections. First, existing agreements, their development and efficacy are considered; second, the prospects for voluntary agreements in developing and transitional economies are discussed; third, a range of authors examine the role of VEAs as part of the policy mix to combat climate change; and, finally, the book concludes with an examination of how new tools for evaluating and improving VEAs could be utilized in the future. Voluntary Environmental Agreements will be of interest not only to academics, governments and businesses wishing to understand this specific instrument, but also to those already implementing or considering applying VEAs to meet their environmental objectives."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 31, 2017) Subject Pollution prevention. Pollution prevention -- Case studies Pollution prevention -- International cooperation Industries -- Environmental aspects. Industries -- Environmental aspects -- Case studies Environmental policy. environmental policy. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Droit de l'environnement. Accords internationaux. Politique de l'environnement. Pays développés. Protection de l'environnement. Climat. Pays en développement. Economies de transition. Environmental policy Industries -- Environmental aspects Pollution prevention Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book Author Brink, Patrick ten, editor. ISBN 9781351282260 1351282263 135128228X 9781351282284 9781351282277 1351282271

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