Shades of Green: Business, Regulation, and Environment - Couverture souple

Kagan, Robert A.; Gunningham, Neil; Thornton, Dorothy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0804748527 ISBN 13 : 9780804748520

Editeur : Stanford Law and Politics, 2003

Synopsis

How much does regulation matter in shaping corporate behavior? This pathbreaking, in-depth study of fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand reveals that steadily tightening regulatory standards have been crucial for raising environmental performance. But while all firms have shown improvement, some have improved more than others, many going substantially beyond compliance.

What explains the variation in compliance? It's not necessarily the differences in regulation in each country. Rather, variation is accounted for by the complex interaction between tightening regulations and a social license to operate (especially pressures from community and environmental activists), economic constraints, and differences in corporate environmental management style. Shades of Green provides the most extensive and systematic empirical study to date of why firms achieve the levels of environmental performance that they do.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Neil A. Gunningham is Professor in the School of Resources, Environment, and Society at the Australian National University. Robert A. Kagan is Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society and Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Dorothy Thornton is Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford Law and Politics
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804748527
• ISBN 13: 9780804748520
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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