To help achieve its targets for reductions in green house gases, the European Commission has adopted regulations under the Ecodesign Directive (2005/32/EC). These require increased energy efficiency for external power supplies, standby and off-modes for electronic household and office equipment...

Techno-optimists advocate the application of information technology to the rulemaking process as a means of advancing strong democracy - that is, direct, broad-based citizen involvement in regulatory policy making. In this paper, I show that such optimism is unfounded given the obstacles to...

Increased dissatisfaction with the efficacy, efficiency and equity of the existing command-and-control system for environmental regulation has led to an increased call for new approaches to environmental problems, in particular, decentralized environmental regulation incorporating economic...