Improvements in environmental quality depend in large measure on changes in private sector management. In recognition of this fact, government and industry have begun in recent years to focus directly on shaping the internal management practices of private firms. New management-based strategies...

Environmental law and psychology uses research on the internal workings of the human mind—including on emotion, motivation, and cognition—to understand how people perceive, process, and attach value to the external natural environment, and to inform, explain, and improve how environmental...

This study examines the effect of a pollution liability insurance mandate on corporate environmental compliance in Shenzhen, China. We employ a triple differences design, comparing electroplating and circuit board manufacturing firms, mandated to purchase insurance, to industries and a...

Whether command-control environmental regulation can play a positive role in circumstances of imperfect market incentive-based environmental regulation remains rarely explored. Using the difference-in-difference model, we find that command-control environmental regulation can significantly...

For the last several decades, governments around the world have tried to use so-called voluntary programs to motivate private firms to act proactively to protect the environment. Unlike conventional environmental regulation, voluntary programs offer businesses flexibility to adopt cost-effective...

This Article explores the relationship between two key areas of farming regulation: food safety and environmental protection. Focusing on the 2010 Food Safety Modernization Act, which directs the Federal Food and Drug Administration to promulgate rules governing produce safety on farms, this...

What happens when an agency adopts a regulation under the California Environmental Quality Act as mitigation for a program’s environmental impact, without complying with the procedural requirements of the California Administrative Procedure Act? According to a recent California Court of Appeal...

This note starts with the assertion that the theory of (negative) externalities in its simple textbook-version is insufficient as a starting point for environmental issues. It further builds upon a distinction by Steven Shavell, who separates actions, which have already caused harm and such...

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...

The Rio treaties broadened the concept of common concern and global responsibility for protection of environment. Economic growth and environmental degradation can be de-linked by promoting more eco-efficient growth patterns. Despite the rapid economic growth the concern of environmental...