Leaders and Laggards
Next-Generation Environmental Regulation
Neil Gunningham author Darren Sinclair author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:1st Oct '02
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"This is a book with a mission – to enhance regulatory design and improve the environment. Two leading authors lead us through an authoritative survey of the literature and proposals for environmental improvements into 21st century." Bridget Hutter
Which types of regulatory reinvention work and which don't? This book identifies innovative regulatory best practice internationally in a number of specific contexts, providing policy prescriptions which would better enable agencies to fulfil their regulatory missions.
Consensus is growing internationally that traditional command-and-control approaches to environmental regulation have borne much of their low-hanging fruit. Yet it is far from clear what should complement or replace them. Regulatory agencies and policy-makers are struggling with a lack of information about regulatory reform, about what works and what doesn't, and about how best to harness the resources of both government and non-government stakeholders. Progress is being impeded unnecessarily by a lack of shared knowledge of how similar agencies elsewhere are meeting similar challenges and by a lack of data on the success or otherwise of existing initiatives. Despite recent and valuable attempts to deal with such problems in the European Union and North America, these remain islands of wisdom in a sea of ignorance. For example, when it comes to dealing with small and medium-sized enterprises, very little is known, and what is known is not effectively distilled and disseminated. Much the same could be said about the roles of third parties, commercial and non-commercial, as surrogate regulators, and more broadly of many current initiatives to reconfigure the regulatory state. Based on the authors' work for the OECD, Victorian Environmental Protection Authority and the Western Australian Department of Environment Protection, Leaders and Laggards addresses these problems by identifying innovative regulatory best practice internationally in a number of specific contexts, evaluating empirically the effectiveness of regulatory reform and providing policy prescriptions that would better enable agencies to fulfil their regulatory missions. Focusing primarily on the differing requirements for both corporations and small and medium-sized enterprises in North America and Europe, the book aims to complement existing initiatives and to expand knowledge of regulatory reform by showing: how existing experience can best be put to practical use "on the ground"; by drawing lessons from experiments in innovative regulation internationally; by reporting and extrapolating on original case studies; and by advancing understanding on which instruments and strategies are likely to be of most value and why. The authors argue that the development of theory has outstripped its application. In essence, Leaders and...
An excellent overview of leading-edge environmental regulation approaches world-wide. - Business Ethics, Fall 2003 || ... one of the most important books on environmental policy design and implementation that has been published in recent years. Leaders and Laggards should be required reading for all policy makers. - The Journal of Corporate Citizenship || This book is aimed at both corporations and small and medium sized businesses in North America and Europe. It shows how existing experience can best be put to practical use by applying the theory of environmental regulation. Detailed case studies provide cross-national assessments of regulation, enterprise size and management styles and how these relate to environmental performance ... This book will benefit those who are interested in achieving better environmental regulation and policy ... - Warmer Bulletin || As a well-organized summary of what is going on in today's policy and regulatory circles, it is very complete ... The authors set out to describe the world of regulatory reform today. In this endeavour, they have succeeded and richly documented their world survey. - Natural Resources Forum || In this important work ... Gunningham and Sinclair look beyond traditional regulatory models ... Leaders and Laggards succeeds in its attempt to shed some light on the path that lies ahead and it certainly deserves to find a place on the bookshelves of anyone interested in environmental regulation. - SEPA View
ISBN: 9781874719489
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 385g
224 pages