The Handbook of Environmental Voluntary Agreements

Voluntary Agreements in Environmental Policy.- The Economics of Environmental Voluntary Agreements.- Corporate Self-Regulation and Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue.- The Poltical Economy of Voluntary Agreements.- Voluntary Agreements in a Rent-Seeking Environment.- Aspects of the Political Economy of Environmental Voluntary Agreements.- The European and the American Approach to Environmental Voluntary Agreements.- The Evolution of Environmental Agreements at the Level of the European Union.- The Use of Voluntary Approaches for Environmental Policymaking in the U.S..- Negotiated Regulation, Implementation and Compliance in the United States.- Design, Negotiation and Implementation of Environmental Voluntary Agreements: National and Sector Approaches.- Efficiency Standards versus Negotiated Agreements in the European Electrical Appliance Sector.- Implementing the Duty of Acceptance in Flemish Waste Policy.- Environmental Voluntary Agreements in Portugal.- Designing Energy Conservation Voluntary Agreements for the Industrial Sector in China: Experience from a Pilot Project with Two Steel Mills in Shandong Province.- Evaluation of Environmental Voluntary Agreements.- On the Assesment of Environmental Voluntary Agreements in Europe.- Environmental Voluntary Agreements in the Dutch Context.- Analysing the Effectiveness of an Environmental Voluntary Agreement: The Case of the Australian National Packaging Covenant.- Towards an Integrated Performance Indicator for (Energy) Benchmarking Covenants with Industry.- Environmental Voluntary Agreements in Policy Mixes.- Environmental Agreements Used in Combination with Other Policy Instruments.- Using the Benchmarking Covenant for Allocating Emission Allowances: Are We Still Moving Ahead?.