Climate change is now a major aspect of public policy. There are almost 500 identified
climate change laws in the world's leading economies. This paper reviews the main …

The international response to climate change has been inadequate, but not zero. There are
1,800 climate change laws worldwide. We use panel data on legislative activity in 133 …

The number of climate change laws in major economies has grown from less than 40 in
1997 to almost 500 at the end of 2013. The passage of these laws is influenced by both …

A lack of sufficient theoretical support for models designed to explain corporate social
responsibility activity led Ullmann (Academy of Management Review, 1985, pp. 540–577) to …

Environmental concerns have begun to reshape the landscape in which global
organizations compete. The demands and influences of the environmental movement are …

W HEN THE ENVIRONMENTALrevolution arrived in the late 1960s, the economics
profession was ready and waiting. Economists had what they saw as a coherent and …

Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of
economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of …

Carbon taxes have been frequently advocated as a cost-effective instrument for reducing
emissions. However, in the practice of environmental policies, only six countries have …

For decades, economists have been extolling the virtues of market-based or economic-
incentive approaches to environmental protection. Some 70 years ago, Arthur Cecil Pigou …

This chapter provides a review and assessment of the extensive literature on the political
determination of environmental regulation. A promising theoretical literature has emerged …