Part I General Issues, Ch.8 Instrument Choice
Richard B. Stewart
From: The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law
Edited By: Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnée, Ellen Hey
- Subject(s):
- Sustainable development — Pollution — NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)
This chapter examines the several different types of environmental regulatory instruments, including command and control requirements, economic incentive systems, and information-based instruments, and their role in international environmental regulation.1 Research on, and both positive and normative analysis of, environmental regulatory instruments in domestic settings is relatively advanced in the United States and has more recently emerged in Europe and some other regions. In the context of international environmental regulation, there have been a number of...
