New Tools for Environmental Protection: Education, Information, and Voluntary MeasuresNational Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change National Academies Press, 2002. jún. 13. - 368 oldal Many people believe that environmental regulation has passed a point of diminishing returns: the quick fixes have been achieved and the main sources of pollution are shifting from large "point sources" to more diffuse sources that are more difficult and expensive to regulate. The political climate has also changed in the United States since the 1970s in ways that provide impetus to seek alternatives to regulation. |
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... Codes of Practice: Emergence and Evolution Jennifer Nash 15 Harnessing the “Power of Information”: Environmental Right to Know as a Driver of Sound Environmental Policy Jeanne Herb, Susan Helms, and Michael J. Jensen 105 125 141 147 161 ...
... Codes: A Theoretical Framework Franco Furger Factors in Firms and Industries Affecting the Outcomes of Voluntary Measures Aseem Prakash The Policy Context for Flexible, Negotiated, and Voluntary Measures Alan Randall Understanding ...
... Code of Hammurabi, which prescribes penalties for faulty construction.3 In the past fifteen years, experiments with market-based environmental policies have proliferated. This change came in response both to theoretical developments in ...
... codes and norms of “best professional practices” established by professional or industry groups within the broad category of voluntary measures. In engineering and management, such practices can do a great deal to reduce environmental ...
... Code of Hammurabi; taxes to provide public goods or discourage undesirable behavior are probably about as old. But the “new tools” based on education, the provision of incentives, reputation, and peer pressure are even older. Before the ...
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The Message and the Reality | 49 |
Examining the KnowledgeDeficit Model of Behavior Change | 67 |
5 Promoting Green Consumer Behavior with EcoLabels | 83 |
6 The Public Health Perspective for Communicating Environmental Issues | 105 |
7 Understanding Individual and Social Characteristics in the Promotion of Household Disaster Preparedness | 125 |
8 Lessons from Analogous Public Education Campaigns | 141 |
An Initial Survey | 219 |
Emergence and Evolution | 235 |
Environmental Right to Know as a Driver of Sound Environmental Policy | 253 |
16 Challenges in Evaluating Voluntary Environmental Programs | 263 |
A Theoretical Framework | 283 |
18 Factors in Firms and Industries Affecting the Outcomes of Voluntary Measures | 303 |
19 The Policy Context for Flexible Negotiated and Voluntary Measures | 311 |
20 Understanding Voluntary Measures | 319 |
9 Perspectives on Environmental Education in the United States | 147 |
10 A Model of CommunityBased Environmental Education | 161 |
11 Community Environmental Policy Capacity and Effective Environmental Protection | 183 |
What Have We Learned? | 201 |
What We Know and Need to Know | 337 |
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS | 349 |