Environmental Regulation And Public Disclosure

Author : Shakeb Afsah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415657655

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Environmental Regulation and Compulsory Public Disclosure by Shakeb Afsah Pdf

This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of Environment took the bold step to launch an environmental disclosure initiative called the Program for Pollution Control, Evaluation and Rating (PROPER). Under PROPER, environmental performance of companies is mapped into a five-color grading scale - Gold for excellent, Green for very good, Blue for good, Red for non-compliance, and Black for causing environmental damage. These ratings are then publicly disclosed through a formal press conference and posted on the internet. Not only did this simple rating scheme create a major media buzz and enhanced environmental awareness of the general public, but it also unleashed a wide range of performance incentives that showed how markets with environmental information could function in a developing country setting. The authors provide a multidisciplinary analysis of how the PROPER program harnessed the power of public disclosure to abate the problem of industrial pollution. They describe how the program has successfully improved the average environmental compliance rate from close to thrity per cent in 1995 to as high as seventy per cent in 2011. This improvement was driven primarily by information disclosure, which avoided expensive and unpredictable legal enforcement through the court system of Indonesia. The combination of institutional history and detailed economic and analyses sheds light on the role of policy entrepreneurs who laid the foundation for disclosure and transparency, despite the constraints of the Suharto regime. The PROPER program is now internationally recognized and continues to serve as a model for many developing countries.

Author : Shakeb Afsah,Allen Blackman,Jorge H. Garcia,Thomas Sterner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135127091

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Environmental Regulation and Public Disclosure by Shakeb Afsah,Allen Blackman,Jorge H. Garcia,Thomas Sterner Pdf

This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of Environment took the bold step to launch an environmental disclosure initiative called the Program for Pollution Control, Evaluation and Rating (PROPER). Under PROPER, environmental performance of companies is mapped into a five-color grading scale – Gold for excellent, Green for very good, Blue for good, Red for non-compliance, and Black for causing environmental damage. These ratings are then publicly disclosed through a formal press conference and posted on the internet. Not only did this simple rating scheme create a major media buzz and enhanced environmental awareness of the general public, but it also unleashed a wide range of performance incentives that showed how markets with environmental information could function in a developing country setting. The authors provide a multidisciplinary analysis of how the PROPER program harnessed the power of public disclosure to abate the problem of industrial pollution. They describe how the program has successfully improved the average environmental compliance rate from close to thrity per cent in 1995 to as high as seventy per cent in 2011. This improvement was driven primarily by information disclosure, which avoided expensive and unpredictable legal enforcement through the court system of Indonesia. The combination of institutional history and detailed economic and analyses sheds light on the role of policy entrepreneurs who laid the foundation for disclosure and transparency, despite the constraints of the Suharto regime. The PROPER program is now internationally recognized and continues to serve as a model for many developing countries.

Author : J?r?me·Foulon,Paul Lanoie,Benoît Laplante
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Contaminacion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Incentives for Pollution Control by J?r?me·Foulon,Paul Lanoie,Benoît Laplante Pdf

"Both regulation and public disclosure belong in the environmental regulators' arsenal. Strong, clear standards combined with a significant, credible penalty system send the right signals to the regulated community, which responds by lowering pollution emissions. The public disclosure of environmental performance also provides strong additional incentives to pollution control"--Cover.

Author : Jérôme Foulon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1290705121

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Incentives for Pollution Control by Jérôme Foulon Pdf

Both regulation and public disclosure belong in the environmental regulators' arsenal. Strong, clear standards combined with a significant, credible penalty system send the right signals to the regulated community, which responds by lowering pollution emissions. The public disclosure of environmental performance also provides strong additional incentives to control pollution.An increasing number of regulators have adopted public disclosure programs to create incentives for pollution control. Previous empirical analyses of monitoring and enforcement issues have focused strictly on the impact of such traditional practices as monitoring (inspections) and enforcement (fines and penalties) on polluters' environmental performance. Other analyses have separately focused on the impact of public disclosure programs. But can these programs create incentives in addition to the normal incentives of fines and penalties?Foulon, Lanoie, and Laplante study the impact of both traditional enforcement and information strategies in the context of a single program, to gain insights into the relative impact of traditional (fines and penalties) and emerging (public disclosure) enforcement strategies. Their results suggest that the public disclosure strategy adopted by the province of British Columbia, Canada, has a greater impact on both emission levels and compliance status than do orders, fines, and penalties traditionally imposed by the courts and the Ministry of the Environment.But their results also demonstrate that adopting stricter standards and higher penalties also significantly affected emission levels. Policymakers, take note: The presence of strong, clear standards together with a significant, credible penalty system sends appropriate signals to the regulated community, which responds by lowering pollution emissions.The public disclosure of environmental performance creates strong additional incentives to control pollution.This paper - a product of Infrastructure and Environment, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the determinants of environmental performance.

Author : Hua Wang
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780210030417

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Environmental Performance Rating and Disclosure China's Green-watch Program by Hua Wang Pdf

This paper describes a new incentive-based pollution control program in China in which the environmental performance of firms is rated and reported to the public. Firms are rated from best to worst using five colors-green, blue, yellow, red, and black-and the ratings are disseminated to the public through the media. The impact has been substantial, suggesting that public disclosure provides a significant incentive for firms to improve their environmental performance. The paper focuses on the experience of the first two disclosure programs, in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province and Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. Successful implementation of these programs at two very different levels of economic and institutional development suggests that public disclosure should be feasible in most of China. The Zhenjiang and Hohhot experiences have also shown that performance disclosure can significantly reduce pollution, even in settings where environmental nongovernmental organizations are not very active and there is no formal channel for public participation in environmental regulation.

Author : Daniel J. Fiorino
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780262062565

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The New Environmental Regulation by Daniel J. Fiorino Pdf

Winner, 2007 Louis Brownlow Award presented by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and 2006 Best Book in Environmental Management and Policy, American Society for Public Administration. Environmental regulation in the United States has succeeded, to a certain extent, in solving the problems it was designed to address; air, water, and land, are indisputably cleaner and in better condition than they would be without the environmental controls put in place since 1970. But Daniel Fiorino argues in The New Environmental Regulationthat—given recent environmental, economic, and social changes—it is time for a new, more effective model of environmental problem solving. Fiorino provides a comprehensive but concise overview of U.S. environmental regulation—its history, its rationale, and its application—and offers recommendations for a more collaborative, flexible, and performance-based alternative. Traditional environmental regulation was based on the increasingly outdated assumption that environmental protection and business are irreversibly at odds. The new environmental regulation Fiorino describes is based on performance rather than on a narrow definition of compliance and uses such policy instruments as market incentives and performance measurement. It takes into consideration differences in the willingness and capabilities of different firms to meet their environmental obligations, and it encourages innovation by allowing regulated industries, especially the better performers, more flexibility in how they achieve environmental goals. Fiorino points to specific programs—including the 33/50 Program, innovative permitting, and the use of covenants as environmental policy instruments in the Netherlands—that have successfully pioneered these new strategies. By bringing together such a wide range of research and real world examples, Fiorino has created an invaluable resource for practitioners and scholars and an engaging text for environmental policy courses.

Author : Benjamin Richardson
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041117359

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Environmental Regulation Through Financial Organisations:Comparative Perspectives on the Industrialised Nations by Benjamin Richardson Pdf

This book takes a comparative perspective of practice in the European Union, North America, Japan and Australasia, arguing that existing legal reforms to promote sustainable development are unlikely to be successful unless environmental policy can be diffused and embedded in the financial services sector. This sector plays a crucial role in creating the financial conditions that allow much economic development to proceed. Financial markets are already highly regulated in pursuance of various public policy objectives, and there is scope to adapt existing regulation to incorporate environmental aspects into the financial services sector. In terms of specific reforms, the book focuses on the role of corporate environmental reporting, economic instruments and liability rules to provide a proper context for engaging financial organisations with the environment, as well as reforms to the system of prudential regulation that currently governs this sector. Beyond the focus on the financial services sector, the book raises complex questions regarding the relationship between the state and market institutions in environmental policy, and will appeal to scholars from a wide range of disciplines interested in problems of environmental governance.

Author : Hua Wang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1290704298

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Environmental Performance Rating and Disclosure by Hua Wang Pdf

This paper describes a new incentive-based pollution control program in China in which the environmental performance of firms is rated and reported to the public. Firms are rated from best to worst using five colors - green, blue, yellow, red, and black - and the ratings are disseminated to the public through the media. The impact has been substantial, suggesting that public disclosure provides a significant incentive for firms to improve their environmental performance.The paper focuses on the experience of the first two disclosure programs, in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province and Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. Successful implementation of these programs at two very different levels of economic and institutional development suggests that public disclosure should be feasible in most of China. The Zhenjiang and Hohhot experiences have also shown that performance disclosure can significantly reduce pollution, even in settings where environmental nongovernmental organizations are not very active and there is no formal channel for public participation in environmental regulation.This paper - a product of Infrastructure and Environment, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to develop more cost-effective approaches to the regulation of externalities.

Author : Peter Cleary Yeager
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993-08-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521448816

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The Limits of Law by Peter Cleary Yeager Pdf

An analysis of the development of US water pollution laws, showing how legal processes and social relations interact as the state struggles to reconcile contradictory responsibilities.

Author : Shakeb Afsah,Allen Blackman,Jorge H. Garcia,Thomas Sterner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135127084

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Environmental Regulation and Public Disclosure by Shakeb Afsah,Allen Blackman,Jorge H. Garcia,Thomas Sterner Pdf

This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of Environment took the bold step to launch an environmental disclosure initiative called the Program for Pollution Control, Evaluation and Rating (PROPER). Under PROPER, environmental performance of companies is mapped into a five-color grading scale – Gold for excellent, Green for very good, Blue for good, Red for non-compliance, and Black for causing environmental damage. These ratings are then publicly disclosed through a formal press conference and posted on the internet. Not only did this simple rating scheme create a major media buzz and enhanced environmental awareness of the general public, but it also unleashed a wide range of performance incentives that showed how markets with environmental information could function in a developing country setting. The authors provide a multidisciplinary analysis of how the PROPER program harnessed the power of public disclosure to abate the problem of industrial pollution. They describe how the program has successfully improved the average environmental compliance rate from close to thrity per cent in 1995 to as high as seventy per cent in 2011. This improvement was driven primarily by information disclosure, which avoided expensive and unpredictable legal enforcement through the court system of Indonesia. The combination of institutional history and detailed economic and analyses sheds light on the role of policy entrepreneurs who laid the foundation for disclosure and transparency, despite the constraints of the Suharto regime. The PROPER program is now internationally recognized and continues to serve as a model for many developing countries.

Author : Canadian Environmental Law Research Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043788350

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Environmental Rights in Canada by Canadian Environmental Law Research Foundation Pdf

Author : G. S. Batra
Publisher : Deep and Deep Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Environmental management
ISBN : 8176299944

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Environment Management and Corporate Disclosures by G. S. Batra Pdf

Study on the environmental management strategies and environmental disclosure practices of various corporate enterprises in India, Singapore and Malaysia.

Author : Dirk Bünger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783642227578

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Deficits in EU and US Mandatory Environmental Information Disclosure by Dirk Bünger Pdf

It is the publicity about the Pollutant Release Inventory’s data which creates an incentive for firms to achieve emission reductions. Accordingly, public access to environmental information constitutes a core characteristic of the aforementioned inventory. Here, in essence, two facets arise. First, with regard to the collection, it is disputed whether such information, which may comprise confidential commercial and industrial information in the EU as well as trade secrets in the US, can be protected under fundamental and constitutional property rights respectively. Second, in the context of dissemination and utilisation, it is arguable whether the information indeed impacts polluters and produces an outcome that secures a certain level of environmental protection. The author responds to the first issue by taking the EU and US jurisdictions into account and strives to analyse how this novel form of Internet disclosure liberates market mechanisms in the quest for effective and efficient emission reductions.

Author : Robert V. Percival
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1082 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063702638

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Environmental Regulation by Robert V. Percival Pdf

This comprehensive yet highly accessible casebook earned its loyal following by exploring and explaining both environmental regulations and the policy considerations that shape them. In its Fourth Edition, Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy also presents a wide range of new material to reflect significant developments in the area.The casebook provides a smooth introduction to the complex web of environmental law: - twelve self-contained chapters supply comprehensive coverage while giving instructors flexibility in organizing their courses - the detailed policy examination focuses not only on the substance of environmental statutes, but also on how they are translated into regulations and how they influence real-world behavior - effective teaching and study guides appear throughout the book, including charts and diagrams mapping the structure of each of the major environmental statutes, realistic problems and questions, "pathfinders" explaining where to find crucial source materials for every major subject area, an extensive glossary, and a list of acronyms - this clear text is written with the nonspecialist in mind - a Teacher's Manual provides detailed suggestions for class use, and a website, www.law.umaryland.edu/environment/casebook, enables students to learn more about topics of particular interest and to keep up-to-date on current developments in the field - an annual Statutory Supplement and Internet Guide keep the book currentENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: Law, Science, and Policy, has been scrupulously updated to reflect the many significant changes in the law between editions: - significant new Supreme Court cases, including Whitman v. AmericanTrucking Association Inc., Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. United States Army Corps of Engineers, Palazollo v. Rhode Island, and Sierra-Tahoe Preservation Council v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency - the first use of the Congressional Review Act to veto agency regulations, the Bush administration's use of regulatory review, and an update, on the effects of the Oil Pollution Act in preventing oil spills, and trends in judicial review of agency action - significant changes to Superfund liability from the Superfund Recycling Equity Act and the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act - the latest developments in EPA's long-running saga concerning the definition of solid waste - new problem exercises on the risks of transporting and storing high-level nuclear waste in a central repository in Yucca Mountain, Nevada; on the controversy over regulation of arsenic in drinking water; and on establishing total maximum daily loadings to control non-point source pollutionThis timely revision offers current coverage in a proven-effective format. Be sure to review Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy, Fourth Edition, before you choose materials for your next course.

Author : Evan J. Ringquist
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993-08-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1563242044

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Environmental Protection at the State Level by Evan J. Ringquist Pdf

An outgrowth of the author's Ph.D. dissertation (U. of Wisconsin), this volume describes in some detail the role that states play in environmental policy, and provides a rigorous empirical investigation into the causes and consequences of state air and water quality regulation. The introduction discusses the state of knowledge regarding environmental policy, or the questions that previous work in this policy area have left unanswered. Paper edition (204-4), $25. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR