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'Voluntary' Approaches to Environmental Regulation : A Survey

Lyon, Thomas P.; Maxwell, John W. - 2014

This article reviews the economic literature on voluntary approaches to environmental regulation. In the last few years there has been a rapid growth in the use of voluntary actions and programs to address environmental concerns. These approaches can be placed into three general categories: (1)...

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'Voluntary' Approaches to Environmental Regulation : A Survey

Lyon, Thomas P.; Maxwell, John W. - 2014

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Substantive green innovation or symbolic green innovation? : the impact of ER on enterprise green innovation based on the dual moderating effects

Lian, Ganghui; Xu, Aiting; Zhu, Yuhan - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 7 (2022) 3, pp. 1-11

Based on the existing research on environmental regulation (ER) and enterprise innovation, this paper separates green innovation ability from general technological innovation and divides it, from the perspective of motivation, into substantive green innovation (SUBGI) and symbolic green...

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A Two-Way Street between Environmental Economics and Public Policy

Stavins, Robert N. - 2014

Over the past three decades, the study of environmental and resource economics has evolved from a relatively obscure application of welfare economics to a field of economics in its own right, combining elements from industrial organization, public finance, microeconomic theory, and many other...

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Chapter 6. The Theory of Pollution Policy

Helfand, Gloria E.; Berck, Peter; Maull, Tim - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 249-303). 2003

Physically, pollution occurs because it is virtually impossible to have a productive process that involves no waste; economically, pollution occurs because polluting is less expensive than operating cleanly. This chapter explores the sources and consequences of, and remedies for, pollution and...

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Environmental Regulation and Labor Demand : Evidence from the South Coast Air Basin

Berman, Eli; Bui, Linda T. M. - 2013

The devolved nature of environmental regulation provides an excellent opportunity for estimating the effects of regulation on employment, by generating rich variation in regulation across regions and over time. We exploit this variation using direct measures of regulation and plant data. We...

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Do voluntary commons associations deliver sustainable grazing outcomes? : an empirical study of England

Larcom, Shaun; Gevelt, Terry van - In: Environmental & resource economics : the official … 73 (2019) 1, pp. 51-74

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Regulatory compliance in the automobile industry

Guo, Bing; Parlane, Sarah; Ryan, Lisa - 2025

This paper analyzes compliance with emission regulations, focusing on investment in innovation and cheating as primary … of innovation, the monitoring system in place, and the size of compliance costs. Successful innovation achieves … compliance at lower costs, while undetected cheating creates the appearance of compliance while eliminating all compliance costs …

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Environmental Self-Auditing : Setting the Proper Incentives for Discovery and Correction of Environmental Harm

Sanchirico, Chris William; Pfaff, Alexander S. P. - 2013

Many firms conduct 'environmental audits' to test compliance with a complex array of environmental regulations … for and to effect compliance. After demonstrating the inadequacy of conventional remedies, we show that incentives can be …

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Beyond the Smokestack : Environmental Protection in the Service Economy

Salzman, James E. - 2014

When our pollution control statutes were drafted in the 1970s, smokestack sources sat squarely in these laws' regulatory cross hairs. Over the past few decades, however, manufacturing's relative importance has declined while the service sector has ascended to the point where services now...

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