The Handbook of Environmental Voluntary Agreements Book

Ch. 1	Voluntary agreements in environment policy
	The economics of environmental voluntary agreements	3
	Corporate self-regulation and multi-stakeholder dialogue	31
Ch. 2	The political economy of voluntary agreements
	Voluntary agreements in a rent-seeking environment	49
	Aspects of the political economy of environmental voluntary agreements - a meta study	67
Ch. 3	The European and the American approach to environmental voluntary agreements
	The evolution of environmental agreements at the level of the European Union	93
	The use of voluntary approaches for environmental policymaking in the U.S.	107
	Negotiated regulation, implementation and compliance in the United States	135
Ch. 4	Design, negotiation and implementation of environmental voluntary agreements : national and sector approaches
	Efficiency standards versus negotiated agreements in the European electrical appliance sector	163
	Implementing the duty of acceptance in Flemish waste policy : the role of environmental voluntary agreements	179
	Environmental voluntary agreements in Portugal : characterisation and implementation	203
	Designing energy conservation voluntary agreements for the industrial sector in China : experience from a pilot project with two steel mills in Shandong Province	221
Ch. 5	Evaluation of environmental voluntary agreements
	On the assessment of environmental voluntary agreements in Europe : lessons to be learned from a comparative case study analysis	239
	Environmental voluntary agreements in the Dutch context	261
	Analysing the effectiveness of an environmental voluntary agreement : the case of the Australian national packaging covenant	283
	Towards an integrated performance indicator for (energy) benchmarking covenants with industry	307
Ch. 6	Environmental voluntary agreements in policy mixes
	Environmental agreements used in combination with other policy instruments	335
	Using the benchmarking covenant for allocating emission allowances : are we still moving ahead?	365