Non‐mandatory approaches to environmental protection

M Khanna - Journal of economic surveys, 2001‏ - Wiley Online Library
The approach to environmental protection has been evolving from a regulation‐driven,
adversarial 'government‐push'approach to a more proactive approach involving voluntary …

The economics of non-point-source pollution

A Xepapadeas - Annu. Rev. Resour. Econ., 2011‏ - annualreviews.org
Non-point-source (NPS) pollution refers to a form of pollution in which neither the source nor
the size of specific emissions can be observed or identified with sufficient accuracy. In NPS …

Can China's decentralized energy governance reduce carbon emissions? Evidence from new energy demonstration cities

S Che, J Wang, H Chen - Energy, 2023‏ - Elsevier
For energy conservation, emission reduction and sustainable development, China launched
the New Energy Demonstration City Program (NEDC) to try a more decentralized energy …

Parks versus PES: Evaluating direct and incentive-based land conservation in Mexico

KRE Sims, JM Alix-Garcia - Journal of Environmental Economics and …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Protected areas (PAs) and payments for ecosystem services (PES) are the top two
mechanisms available for countries to achieve international REDD agreements, yet there …

Voluntary environmental agreements: good or bad news for environmental protection?

K Segerson, TJ Miceli - Journal of environmental economics and …, 1998‏ - Elsevier
There has been growing interest in the use of voluntary agreements (VAs) as an
environmental policy tool. This article uses a simple model to determine whether VAs are …

Assessing a voluntary environmental initiative in the develo** world: The Costa Rican Certification for Sustainable Tourism

J Rivera - Policy sciences, 2002‏ - Springer
The public policy literature has paid little attention to evaluating the ability of voluntary
environmental programs to generate economic benefits for firms. Yet, given their voluntary …

Assessing voluntary programs to improve environmental quality

A Alberini, K Segerson - Environmental and Resource Economics, 2002‏ - Springer
The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the use of voluntaryapproaches (VAs) to
environmental protection, which has spurned agrowing literature on the relative merits of …

Agricultural nonpoint source water pollution policy: The case of California's Central Coast

BM Dowd, D Press, M Los Huertos - Agriculture, ecosystems & …, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Nonpoint sources of pollution, primarily from agricultural sources, are a major cause of water
quality impairment. Yet policies to address this issue remain underexplored in the literature …

Mandatory versus voluntary approaches to food safety

K Segerson - Agribusiness: an international journal, 1999‏ - Wiley Online Library
Food safety policy is currently based on a combination of voluntary measures undertaken by
producers and regulatory measures imposed, for example, by the US Department of …

The effectiveness of voluntary environmental programs—A policy at a crossroads?

DA Koehler - Policy Studies Journal, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
Voluntary environmental programs (VEPs) have been used as a policy tool in the United
States since the early 1990s and come in many forms. Early assessments of VEPs targeting …