Private Environmental Governance in Hard Times: Markets for Virtue and the Dynamics of Regulatory Change
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Marc Allen Eisner
The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of corporateassociation- and standards-based forms of environmental selfregulation. Private environmental governance is commonly presented as being a market-driven phenomenon. Firms seek to manage their environmental impacts as a means of achieving cost-based or differentiation-based advantages. Yet, these innovations are necessarily embedded in the regulatory policies and institutions of nation states and thus subject to the dynamics of regulatory change. Historically, economic crises have stimulated significant regulatory changes that have, more often than not, resulted in an expansion of public regulation and a diminution of self-regulation. This Article considers the ramifications of the global financial crisis for the development of private environmental governance.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Article
- Introduction
- Transnational Labor Regulation and the Limits of Governance
- Global Justice, Labor Standards and Responsibility
- In Defense of Soft Law and Public-Private Initiatives: A Means to an End? -- The Malaysian Case
- Private Environmental Governance in Hard Times: Markets for Virtue and the Dynamics of Regulatory Change
- Transnational Governance as the Layering of Rules: Intersections of Public and Private Standards
- Private Environmental Governance as Ensemble Regulation: A Critical Exploration of Sustainability Indexes and the New Ensemble Politics
- The Efficacy of Regulation as a Function of Psychological Fit: Reexamining the Hard Law/Soft Law Continuum
- Signaling Virtue? A Comparison of Corporate Codes in the Fields of Labor and Environment
- The ISO 26000 International Guidance Standard on Social Responsibility: Implications for Public Policy and Transnational Democracy
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Article
- Introduction
- Transnational Labor Regulation and the Limits of Governance
- Global Justice, Labor Standards and Responsibility
- In Defense of Soft Law and Public-Private Initiatives: A Means to an End? -- The Malaysian Case
- Private Environmental Governance in Hard Times: Markets for Virtue and the Dynamics of Regulatory Change
- Transnational Governance as the Layering of Rules: Intersections of Public and Private Standards
- Private Environmental Governance as Ensemble Regulation: A Critical Exploration of Sustainability Indexes and the New Ensemble Politics
- The Efficacy of Regulation as a Function of Psychological Fit: Reexamining the Hard Law/Soft Law Continuum
- Signaling Virtue? A Comparison of Corporate Codes in the Fields of Labor and Environment
- The ISO 26000 International Guidance Standard on Social Responsibility: Implications for Public Policy and Transnational Democracy
