The Information Economy produces a host of new injuries to personal privacy. These include damage from data mining, data spills, identity theft, the tracking of online activity, and spam. Policymakers are currently searching for a framework with which to think about the governance of these...

Policymakers and scholars recognize that individuals comprise an important source of environmental harm. Individuals’ decisions and actions — running a washing machine, driving to work, purchasing a pair of blue jeans — impose direct and indirect impacts on the environment that, while...

Umwelt- und Wirtschaftspolitik, so schien es Jahrzehnte lang, stehen im Widerspruch. Was hilft der gesunde Wald, wenn Millionen keine Arbeit haben? Zwar gehen mit Arbeitslosigkeit seit Einführung der sozialen Sicherungssysteme nicht länger Not, Leid und Elend einher. Aber das Stigma bedrückt...

It is frequently hypothesized that environmental management systems (EMSs) may improve a firm's environmental performance. Whether or not this hypothesis is true is as important from the perspective of environmental policy as questions relating to the relevant incentives for (1) a firm's...