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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... decisions intended to improve those outcomes. A previous committee effort, Environmentally Significant Consumption: Research Directions (NRC, 1997), examined the determinants of some of those behaviors. This volume examines some of the ...
... decisions of many consumers. In addition, many firms are sensitive to the possibility of boycotts orchestrated by environmental groups. Not all of the shift in corporate concern should be attributed to external pressures. Some firms ...
... decision, and one that is often critical to the acceptability of tradeable environmental allowance policies. 5 Freeman (1993:93-140) provides an overview of neoclassical welfare economics as applied to environmental problems. Kneese and ...
... decisions. Home Depot, for example, spent a number of years trying to establish a corporate policy regarding the arsenate in pressure-treated wood and ultimately found it too difficult a problem. As the discussion on cumulative services ...
... decision to outsource its microprocessors and operating system has changed our industrial landscape. Flexible, networked manufacturing will allow companies to effectively “deconstruct” their value chains and reassemble them close to ...
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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 |