Environmental law and policy has come a long way since the birth of the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 and the launch of the first European environmental policy in 1972. Today law is no longer centre stage but simply one instrument among others in the environmental regulator's...

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 analyzes more than four decades of environmental law, regulation, and governance in various Anglo-Saxon and global jurisdictions. It shows how, after the heydays of law and command and control and the swing to economic instruments, voluntarism, and light-handed initiatives, new...