Leaders and Laggards: Next-Generation Environmental Regulation - Couverture souple

Gunningham, Neil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1874719489 ISBN 13 : 9781874719489

Editeur : Greenleaf Pubns, 2001

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Neil Gunningham is Professor in the School of Resources, Environment and Society, and in the Regulatory Institutions Network, Research School of Social Sciences, both at The Australian National University. He was previously Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law at the ANU, Visiting and Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley, and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics. He is also a consultant to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and to various environmental regulatory agencies in Australia. Gunningham's research interests and publications are principally in the area of environmental regulation and safety, health and environmental policy. His previous books include Smart Regulation: Designing Environmental Policy (with Grabosky; Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1998), Regulating Workplace Safety (with Johnstone; Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1998) and Environmental Outlook No. 3: Law and Policy (ed. with Leadbeter and Boer; Sydney: Federation Press, 1999). Darren Sinclair is a Senior Research Associate at the Australian Centre for Environmental Law, The Australian National University. He has worked on a number of environmental regulation and policy research projects, and has been a consultant to several government agencies and industry organisations. Previously, he worked for the Australian Department of Industry, Science and Technology. Recent reports include Environmental Partnerships: Combining Sustainability and Commercial Advantage in the Agricultural Sector (with Gunningham; Canberra: RIRDC, 2002) and Establishing Comparability and Equivalence amongst Forest Management Certification Schemes (with Kanowski, Freeman and Bass; Canberra: AFFA, 2000). He has contributed to several books including Chapters 2, 3 and 6 (with Gunningham) in Smart Regulation: Designing Environmental Policy (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1998) and Chapter 7 (with Gunningham) in Environmental Outlook No. 3: Law and Policy (ed. Leadbeter, Gunningham and Boer; Sydney: Federation Press, 1999).

Présentation de l'éditeur :

As consensus grows internationally that traditional command and control approaches to environmental regulation have borne much of their low hanging fruit, how do national environmental agencies decide which types of regulatory reinvention work and which don't? In a period of decreasing budgets for many agencies, the need to maximise the effectiveness of the regulatory dollar is critical if environmental well-being is to be improved. The authors of this book have discovered that there is a deep-seated international crisis in the evaluation of tools for next-generation environmental regulation such as economic instruments and voluntary agreements as agencies struggle with a lack of information about regulatory reform, of what works and what doesn't, and of how best to harness the resources of both government and non-government stakeholders. Progress is being impeded unnecessarily by a lack of shared knowledge of how similar agencies elsewhere are meeting similar challenges and by a lack of data on the success or otherwise of existing initiatives. Despite recent and valuable attempts to deal with such problems in the European Union and North America, these remain islands of wisdom in a sea of ignorance. For example, when it comes to dealing with small and medium-sized enterprises very little is known, and what is known is not effectively distilled and disseminated. Much the same could be said about the roles of third parties, commercial and non-commercial, as surrogate regulators, and more broadly of many current initiatives to reconfigure the regulatory state. Based on the author's work for the OECD, Victorian Environmental Protection Authority and the Western Australian Department of Environment Protection, "Leaders and Laggards" addresses these problems by identifying innovative regulatory best practice internationally in a number of specific contexts, evaluating empirically the effectiveness of regulatory reform

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Greenleaf Pubns
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1874719489
• ISBN 13: 9781874719489
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224