Cap and trade and carbon taxes offer the prospect of reducing greenhouse gas emissions at
a lower cost to society than conventional regulation. Between these two market-based …

ABSTRACT In 1998, Evert Vedung posited a typology of policy instruments making
governing akin to a conversation with a donkey: regulatory (sticks), economic (carrots) and …

Policy makers who embrace market‐based approaches to environmental regulation,
typically eschew carbon taxes in favor of the political advantages of cap and trade, which …

This paper outlines an approach for understanding the role of multinational corporations
(MNCs) in global governance. We develop a typology of regime types with two dimensions …

With its emphasis on shared beliefs and the advocacy use of knowledge within policy
subsystems, the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) is ideally suited to the study of …

In recent years, governments throughout the world have expressed growing interest in
cooperative approaches to environmental protection, including negotiated rulemaking …

Past studies of the dynamics of US-Canada environmental policy and policy-making have
found little evidence of 'weak'convergence in this sector; that is, of Canadian policy moving …

A series of sharp cuts to the Ontario Ministry of Environment's (MOE) budget in the 1990s
have left it with fewer resources at the turn of the century than it controlled in the mid-1970s …

Uncertainty is a distinct feature of environmental policy and environmental issues. This
article explores the potential of strategic and comprehensive environmental planning for …

While the first part of the article focuses on the possible advantages of strategic and
integrative planning in environmental policy, the second part looks at existing national …