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A Dissolving Paradox : Firms' Compliance to Environmental Regulation

Nyborg, Karine; Telle, Kjetil - 2004

theory, a result labeled the "Harrington paradox" in the literature. Enforcement data from Norway presented here appears, at … subject to credible threats of harsh punishment. This seems quite consistent with predictions from standard theory. Although … predicted by standard theory should be viewed with skepticism …

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Behavioral Instruments in Environmental Regulation

Rowell, Arden - 2019

This chapter briefly describes the use and usefulness of behavioral and psychological instruments in environmental regulation. Behavioral instruments — tools for regulating behavior that build on empirical research about how people actually behave — can contribute to environmental law in at...

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Human Rights and Environmental Regulation

Bratspies, Rebecca M. - 2011

This article suggests that were federal environmental regulators to view themselves as human rights decisionmakers, we might well see a new kind of regulatory decisionmaking emerge — one not only more responsive and transparent, but also more likely to enjoy the trust of the American public....

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How Not to Incorporate Voluntary Standards into Smart Regulation : ISO 14001 and Ontario's Environmental Penalties Regulations

Wood, Stepan; Johannson, Lynn - 2014

In June, 2007 the province of Ontario, Canada, released environmental penalties (EPs) regulations. EPs (or administrative penalties, as they are called in the US) are the environmental equivalent of speeding tickets for facilities that violate pollution laws. They are found in numerous...

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Environmental Regulation, Energy, and Market Entry

Pierce, Richard J. - 2014

As my contribution to a symposium, I was asked to identify and to discuss conflicts between environmental regulation and pursuit of the goals of national energy policy. I identify three contexts in which I see clear conflicts between environmental regulation and energy policy - gasoline...

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Effects of information-based regulation on financial outcomes : evidence from the European Union's public emission registry

Earnhart, Dietrich; Germeshausen, Robert; Graevenitz, … - 2022

Information-based policies play an important role in environmental protection efforts around the world. These policies use information provision and/or disclosure to shape behavior in order to meet the policy objective; for example, mandatory information disclosure requires firms to measure and...

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Allocating Pollution

Rowell, Arden - 2012

This paper deconstructs the relationship between harm and pollution, and argues that understanding this relationship creates valuable opportunities for improving environmental policy by minimizing or even eliminating the harm from some pollutants, even when reducing the total amount of pollution...

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Adapting Energy and Environmental Policy for Climate Change

Flatt, Victor Byers - 2012

The United States has long suffered from a schizophrenia about energy policy. The importance of one of the factors in energy policy, the environment, has never been formally defined. Climate change adds another distinct layer to this complexity, as neither energy policies nor environmental...

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Interest Groups and Environmental Policy : Inconsistent Positions and Missed Opportunities

Livermore, Michael A. - 2018

This Essay examines and explains the positions of the principal interest groups over the past four decades with respect to the two central questions of environmental policy: the appropriate policy goal and the instrument that should be used to carry out the policy. With respect to the first...

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Social Science and the Analysis of Environmental Policy

Coglianese, Cary; Starobin, Shana - 2021

As much as environmental problems manifest themselves as problems with the natural environment, environmental problems — and their solutions — are ultimately social and behavioral in nature. Just as the natural sciences provide a basis for understanding the need for environmental policy and...

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