The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, 2nd Edition

Greening government 11.5 Opposition to wind power: democracy or NIMBYism? Renewable sources contributed just 3.6 per cent of UK ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY have adopted a more strategic approach that at least genuflects in the direc- tion of (very weak) sustainab ...

Greening government Meadowcroft (2000a)andDesai( 2002 ). For the USA, see Rosenbaum (2005a)and Vig and Kraft (2006a). 2 See Wood ...

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Policy instruments and 12 implementation Contents Regulation and regulatory styles 323 The case for regulation 323 Implementatio ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY Chapter 11 assessed progress towards sustainable development by examin- ing various ways in which governmen ...

Policy instruments and implementation ◗ Regulation and regulatory styles ◗ The case for regulation Regulation is the most widely ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY Regulation has an obvious appeal to policymakers. It appears to offer pre- cision, predictability and effec ...

Policy instruments and implementation Superfund programme for decontaminating toxic waste sites. Here costs have multiplied – av ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY caused by the implementation of federal environmental regulations, such as the need to issue thousands of i ...

Policy instruments and implementation regulatory agencies to build close relationships with those whom they regu- late simply to ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (p. 77). The British, because they are ‘reluctant to adopt rules and regula- tions with which they cannot g ...

Policy instruments and implementation encouraged further flouting of the law. Although Vogel’s work is now very dated, the conti ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 12.1 Two successful voluntary agreements It is difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of a voluntary agree ...

Policy instruments and implementation objectives because they give producers the freedom to decide how best to meet goals and en ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ◗ Government expenditure Government expenditure can help achieve environmental goals where the costs of tak ...

Policy instruments and implementation 12.2 Market-based instruments A market-based instrument internalises into the price of a g ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY reduce pollution further to cut the tax bill (Pearce et al. 1989 ;Pearceand Turner 1990 ). Whereas an eco-t ...

Policy instruments and implementation 12.3 Eco-taxes and the double dividend All governments are currently interested in fiscal ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY toMBIs suggest that the case in favour of them is less persuasive than it first appears. ◗ Weaknesses in th ...