Exactly how should an excellent regulator intervene in the affairs of regulated organizations to ensure compliance (and arguably over-compliance) and facilitate enforcement? That question motivates this paper, which is about the “intervention strategies” used for compliance and enforcement...

Studies of regulation have given less attention to the instruments, mechanisms and strategies through which a firm which is committed to achieving given social outcomes (whether prescribed by regulation or otherwise) may best succeed in doing so — what we might term internal regulation —...

The principal aims of the harmonised work health and safety (WHS) legislation were to reduce the regulatory burden for businesses and undertakings operating in more than one jurisdiction and to achieve significant and continual reductions in work-related deaths, injuries and disease. Through...

This paper examines the new collaborative environmental governance, an enterprise that involves collaboration between a diversity of private, public and non-government stakeholders who, acting together towards commonly agreed goals, hope to achieve far more collectively, than individually. Such...

This article argues that a central challenge for energy governance is how to manage a complex ‘energy trilemma' involving the sometimes competing demands of energy security, climate change mitigation and (particularly in developing countries) energy poverty. How the trilemma plays out, it is...

In 2008 the International Energy Agency (IEA) called for an energy revolution, involving radical action by governments at national and local levels, and through participation in coordinated international mechanisms. Fundamental to achieving such a revolution is the role of governments, and the...

This article examines whether China is on the verge of a ‘shale gas revolution’ with far reaching consequences for energy policy and climate change mitigation. On the contrary, it argues that various technological, environmental, political, regulatory and institutional factors will constrain...

The aims of this review article are to map the development of the corporate environmental responsibility (CER) concept, to trace the principal debates concerning its contribution to environmental protection, to examine the arguments about the relationship between CER and competitive advantage...