This working paper sets out some initial thoughts on the approach taken in the draft Environment (Principles and Governance) Bill to environmental principles. It sets them against the backdrop of the existing nature and role of environmental principles in environmental law, focusing on the...

Where is the environment in environmental law? People often subconsciously assume that “the environment” exists outdoors. Although it may seem benign, this assumption can affect when, how, and how effectively environmental law and policy addresses indoor and even outdoor environmental...

We consider a model of polluting firms subject to tax on emissions, monitoring, and penalties in case of underreporting and which face a choice between a more expensive clean and a less expensive dirty technology. Moreover, emissions are subject to random events.We show that the optimal...

This paper explores the role played by indicators in relation to the protection of the environment. It tries to seize the potential they offer to steer global environmental issues. Indeed, indicators are a salient mean to quantify, measure and assess all kind of developments. Designed by either...

National actions to protect the environment can be more or less unilateral, ranging from those that promote purely national policies at one extreme to those that promote international norms at the other. Although the preference for international action to protect the environment is...

Despite the large use of the notion of voluntary approaches, economic literature is generally unassuming their definitions. Discussions about definitions are not unimportant quibbles over words and can change the way we think. Do voluntary approaches constitute a new form of regulation? The...

The unprecedented expansion in environmental regulation since 1970 - at all levels of the government - signifies an extraordinary transformation of our nation's law. How environmental law emerged, why it has since evolved in the way that it has, and what are the challenges presented as...

Ecosystem services (MEA 2005) are governed and affected by a diverse variety of different legal and governance frameworks (Paavola et al. 2009), although analysis of these legal frameworks has rarely been carried out (Salzman et al. 2001). Ideally, these frameworks are integrated and coordinated...

While public environmental law, regulation and governance have paved the traditional road towards environmental and natural resource protection, the pathway has been expanded to include a broader orbit of interest areas and regulatory tools in an effort to achieve sustainability. Through the...