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Making Law Work: Environmental Compliance & Sustainable Development

Full Table of Contents -- Volumes 1 & 2

Volume 1
Preface (Read the full text of the Preface) PDF icon
Foreword (Read the full text of the Foreword) PDF icon
Introduction (Read the full text of the Introduction) PDF icon
Chapter 1: Compliance, Rule of Law, & Good Governance

Durwood Zaelke, Matthew Stilwell, & Oran Young, What Reason Demands: Making Law Work for Sustainable Development (2005). (full text article) PDF icon

Chapter 2: Compliance Theories (full text chapter intro) PDF icon
2.1 The Logic of Behavior: Consequences vs. Appropriateness

James G. March & Johan P. Olsen, The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders, 52(4) INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION 943 (1998).

2.2 Theories of International Compliance

Kal Raustiala, Compliance & Effectiveness in International Regulatory Cooperation, 32 CASE WESTERN RESERVE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 387 (2000).

Ronald B. Mitchell, Compliance Theory: An Overview, in IMPROVING COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 3-28 (James Cameron, Jacob Werksman, & Peter Roderick eds., 1996).

George W. Downs, Enforcement and the Evolution of Cooperation, 19 MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 319 (1998).

Oran R. Young, Is Enforcement the Achilles' Heel of International Regimes?, in GOVERNANCE IN WORLD AFFAIRS 79-107 (1999).

2.3 Theories of Domestic Compliance

Gary S. Becker, Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach, 76(2) THE JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY 169 (1968).

Timothy F. Malloy, Regulation, Compliance and the Firm, 76 TEMPLE LAW REVIEW 451 (2003).

Michael P. Vandenbergh, Beyond Elegance: A Testable Typology of Social Norms in Corporate Environmental Compliance, 22 STANFORD ENVIRONMENTAL LAW JOURNAL 55 (2003)

Clifford Rechtschaffen & David L. Markell, REINVENTING ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT AND THE STATE/FEDERAL RELATIONSHIP, Chapters 2 & 5 (2003).

Chapter 3: Multilateral Environmental Agreements in Action (full text chapter intro) PDF icon
3.1 General Effectiveness of MEAs

Edith Brown Weiss & Harold K Jacobson, Strengthening National Compliance with International Environmental Agreements, in PARTNERSHIPS FOR GLOBAL ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT: SCIENCE, ECONOMICS AND LAW 145-52 (Ismail Serageldin & Joan Martin-Brown eds., 1999).

Oran R. Young, Hitting the Mark: Why Are Some International Environmental Agreements More Successful Than Others?, 41(8) ENVIRONMENT 20 (1999).

Helmut Breitmeier, Oran R. Young, & Michael Zürn, ANALYZING INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL REGIMES: FROM CASE STUDY TO DATABASE, Chapters 1 & 6 (forthcoming 2005).

Peter H. Sand, Institution-building to Assist Compliance with International Environmental Law: Perspectives, first published in 56(3) ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR AUSLÄNDISCHES ÖFFENTLICHES RECHT UND VÖLKERRECHT (HEIDELBERG JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW) 774 (1996).

Kal Raustalia, REPORTING AND REVIEW INSTITUTIONS IN 10 MULTILATERAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS, Introduction & Chapters 2 & 5 (UNEP 2001).

3.2 MEA Case Studies

Svitlana Kravchenko, Strengthening Implementation of MEAs: The Innovative Aarhus Compliance Mechanism, 7TH INECE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (forthcoming 2005).

Kal Raustalia, Compliance & Effectiveness in International Regulatory Cooperation, 32 CASE WESTERN RESERVE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 387 (2000).

Peter H. Sand, Sanctions in case of non-compliance and state responsibility: pacta sunt servanda - or else?, ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR AUSLÄNDISCHES ÖFFENTLICHES RECHT UND VÖLKERRECHT (HEIDELBERG JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW) (forthcoming 2005).

Rosalind Reeve, POLICING INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES: THE CITES TREATY AND COMPLIANCE, Chapter 10 (2002).

K. Madhava Sarma, Compliance with the Montreal Protocol, 7TH INECE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (forthcoming 2005).

Jon Hovi, Olav Schram Stokke, & Geir Ulfstein, Introduction and Main Findings, in IMPLEMENTING THE CLIMATE REGIME: INTERNATIONAL COMPLIANCE 1-14 (Olav Schram Stokke, Jon Hovi, & Geir Ulfstein eds., 2005).

3.3 Case Studies of State Implementation of MEAs

Piers Blaikie and John Mope Simo, Cameroon's Environmental Accords: Signed, Sealed, but Undelivered, in ENGAGING COUNTRIES: STRENGTHENING COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ACCORDS 437-74 (Edith Brown Weiss & Harold K. Jacobson eds., 1998).

Murillo de Aragão & Stephen Bunker, Brazil: Regional Inequalities and Ecological Diversity in a Federal System, in ENGAGING COUNTRIES: STRENGTHENING COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ACCORDS 475-509 (Edith Brown Weiss & Harold K. Jacobson eds., 1998).

3.4 Guidelines on MEA Compliance

Elizabeth Mrema and Carl Bruch, UNEP Guidelines and Manual on Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), 7TH INECE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (forthcoming 2005).

Chapter 4: Domestic Enforcement Strategies (full text chapter intro) PDF icon
4.1 Deterrence: An Overview

Jon D. Silberman, Does Environmental Deterrence Work? Evidence and Experience Say Yes, But We Need to Understand How and Why, 30 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER 10523 (2000).

4.2 Detection: Inspection & Monitoring

Mark Cohen, Empirical Research on the Deterrent Effect of Environmental Monitoring and Enforcement, 30 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER 10245 (2000).

Ngoc Sinh Nguyen & Van Vui Phung, A Large Scale Survey Using Environmental Inspections to Assess and Enforce the Implementation of the Law on Environmental Protection in Vietnam, 1997, 5TH INECE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, VOL. 1 (1998).

4.3 Sanction: Fines & Other Remedies

International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE), Enforcement Responses to Violations, in PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT, Chapter 7 (1992).

Jay P. Shimshack & Michael B. Ward, Regulator Reputation, Enforcement, & Environmental Compliance, JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT (forthcoming 2005).

Nandini Dasgupta, Environmental Enforcement and Small Industries in India: Reworking the Problem in the Poverty Context, 28(5) WORLD DEVELOPMENT 945-67 (2000).

Chapter 5: Courts, Tribunals, & Liability (full text chapter intro) PDF icon
5.1 Innovations in Domestic Courts

Bret C. Birdsong, Adjudicating Sustainability: New Zealand's Environment Court, 29 ECOLOGY LAW QUARTERLY 1 (2000).

5.2 Enforcing International Environmental Law in Domestic Courts

Mary Ellen O'Connell, Symposium: Enforcement and the Success of International Environmental Law, 3 INDIANA JOURNAL OF GLOBAL LEGAL STUDIES 47 (1995).

Daniel Bodansky & Jutta Brunnée, The Role of National Courts in the Field of International Environmental Law, 7(1) RECIEL 11 (1998).

5.3 Enforcing Constitutionalized International Principles in Domestic Courts

Carl Bruch, Wole Coker, and Chris VanArsdale, Constitutional Environmental Law: Giving Force to Fundamental Principles in Africa, 26 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 131 (2001).

5.4 Liability & Compensation

David A. Grossman, Warming Up to a Not-So-Radical Idea: Tort-Based Climate Change Litigation, 28 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 1 (2003).

Anne Daniel, Civil Liability Regimes as a Complement to Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Sound International Policy or False Comfort?, 12(3) RECIEL 225 (2003).

5.5 Transjudicialism: Horizontal & Vertical Communication

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Human Rights International Law Symposium: Article: A Typology of Transjudicial Communication, 29 UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND LAW REVIEW 99 (1994).

5.6 Supranational Adjudicative Bodies

Lawrence R. Helfer & Anne-Marie Slaughter, Toward a Theory of Effective Supranational Adjudication, 107 YALE LAW JOURNAL 273 (1997).

Philippe Sands, International Environmental Litigation and Its Future, 32 UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND LAW REVIEW 1619 (1999).

Chapter 6: NGO Compliance Strategies (full text chapter intro) PDF icon
6.1 Overview

Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, J. William Futrell, Jay Austin, & Susan Bass, The Evolving Role of Citizens in Environmental Enforcement, 4TH INECE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, VOL. 1 (1996).

6.2 Citizen Suits

Barton H. Thompson, Jr., Symposium: Innovations in Environmental Policy: The Continuing Innovation of Citizen Enforcement, 2000 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 185 (2000).

Svitlana Kravchenko, Citizen Enforcement of Environmental Law in Eastern Europe, 10 WIDENER LAW REVIEW 475 (2004).

6.3 Environmental NGOs & Human Rights

Romina Picolotti, Using Human Rights as an Enforcement Tool To Ensure the Right to Safe Drinking Water: An Argentine Case Study, 7TH INECE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (forthcoming 2005).

6.4 International Strategies

John Knox, Citizen Suits in International Environmental Law: The North American Experience, 6TH INECE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, VOL. 2 (2002).

Linda A. Malone & Scott Pasternack, DEFENDING THE ENVIRONMENT: CIVIL SOCIETY STRATEGIES TO ENFORCE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, Introduction & Conclusion (2004).

David Hunter, The Emergence of Citizen Enforcement in International Organizations, 7TH INECE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (forthcoming 2005).

Volume 2
Chapter 7: Information Regulation (full text chapter intro) PDF icon
7.1 Public & Private Information Disclosure

Peter H. Sand, The Right to Know: Environmental Information Disclosure by Government and Industry. Revised version of a paper presented to the 2nd Transatlantic Dialogue on "The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Approaches to Risk and Regulation" (Warrenton/VA, 15 June 2002) and the Conference on "Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Knowledge for the Sustainability Transition" (Berlin, 7 December 2002).

7.2 Information Strategies

Annette B. Killmer, Designing Mandatory Disclosure to Promote Synergies Between Public and Private Enforcement, 7TH INECE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (forthcoming 2005)

Jérôme Foulon, Paul Lanoie, and Benoît Laplante, Incentives for Pollution Control: Regulation or Information?, 44 JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT 169 (2002).

7.3 Developing Country Experiences

Shakeb Afsah, Benoit Laplante, & David Wheeler, Regulation in the Information Age: Indonesian Public Information Program for Environmental Management (World Bank, New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, 1997).

Hua Wang, Jinnan Bi, David Wheeler, Jinnan Wang, Dong Cao, Genfa Lu, & Yuan Wang, Public Ratings of Industry's Environmental Performance: China's Greenwatch Program, 6TH INECE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, VOL. 2 (2002).

7.4 Disclosure & Capital Markets

Susmita Dasgupta & Benoit Laplante, Pollution and Capital Markets in Developing Countries, 42 JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT 310 (2001).

Chapter 8: Emissions Trading Compliance (full text chapter intro) PDF icon

John K. Stranlund, Carlos A. Chavez, & Barry C. Field, Enforcing Emissions Trading Programs: Theory, Practice, and Performance, 30(3) POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL 343 (2002).
Chapter 9: Compliance Assistance & "Beyond Compliance" (full text chapter intro) PDF icon
9.1 Overview

Malcolm K. Sparrow, THE REGULATORY CRAFT: CONTROLLING RISKS, SOLVING PROBLEMS, AND MANAGING COMPLIANCE, Chapter 13 (2000).

9.2 Compliance Assistance from the State

Georges Kremlis & Jan Dusik, The Challenge of the Implementation of the Environmental Acquis Communautaire in the New Member States, 7TH INECE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (forthcoming 2005).

Neil Gunningham & Darren Sinclair, LEADERS & LAGGARDS: NEXT-GENERATION ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION, Chapter 2 (2002).

Paul Leinster, Jim Gray, Chris Howes, & Rosie Clark, Compliance Promotion in the United Kingdom, 7TH INECE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (forthcoming 2005).

Ramani Ellepola, Implementation of Industrial Pollution Control Programs in Sri Lanka, 5TH INECE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, VOL. 1 (1998).

9.3 Compliance Assistance from the Private Sector

Dara O'Rourke, Outsourcing Regulation: Analyzing Nongovernmental Systems of Labor Standards and Monitoring, 31(1) THE POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL 1 (2003).

Tim Bartley, Certifying Forests and Factories: States, Social Movements, and the Rise of Private Regulation in the Apparel and Forest Products Fields, 31(3) POLITICS & SOCIETY 433 (2003).

Arnoldo Contreras-Hermosilla & Global Witness, Emerging Best Practices for Combating Illegal Activities in the Forest Sector (DFID-World Bank-CIDA 2003).

Clifford Rechtschaffen, Deterrence vs. Cooperation and the Evolving Theory of Environmental Enforcement, 71 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 1181 (1998).

9.4 Beyond Compliance

Kathryn Harrison, Talking with the Donkey: Cooperative Approaches to Environmental Protection, 2(3) JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY 51 (1998).

OECD, Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in the NIS: A Survey of Current Practices of Environmental Inspectorates and Options for Improvements (2000).

Chapter 10: Regulators' Choice of Strategies (full text chapter intro) PDF icon

Robert M. Friedman, Donna Downing, & Elizabeth M. Gunn, Environmental Policy Instrument Choice: The Challenge of Competing Goals, 10 DUKE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW& POLICY FORUM 327 (2000).

Jeremy Firestone, Enforcement of Pollution Laws and Regulations: An Analysis of Forum Choice, 27 HARVARD ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW 105 (2003).

Peter K. Krahn, Enforcement versus Voluntary Compliance: An Examination of the Strategic Enforcement Initiatives Implemented by the Pacific and Yukon Regional Office of Environment Canada 1983 to 1998, 5TH INECE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, VOL. 1 (1998).

Ruth Greenspan Bell, Choosing Environmental Policy Instruments in the Real World, presented at OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development: Emissions Trading, Concerted Action on Tradeable Emissions Permits Country Forum, March 17-18, 2003.

Chapter 11: Indicators for Measuring Compliance (full text chapter intro) PDF icon

Kenneth J. Markowitz, Krzysztof Michalak, and Meredith Reeves, Improving Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Through Performance Measurement: The INECE Indicators Project, updated from 4(1) SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT LAW & POLICY 17 (2004).

Michael M. Stahl, Using Indicators to Lead Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Programs, 7TH INECE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (forthcoming 2005).

Nalin Kishor & Kenneth Rosenbaum, Indicators to Monitor Progress of Forest Law Enforcement and Governance Initiatives to Control Illegal Practices in the Forest Sector, 5(3) INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY REVIEW 211 (2003).

Chapter 12: Transgovernmental Networks (full text chapter intro) PDF icon
Anne-Marie Slaughter, A NEW WORLD ORDER, Introduction (2004)

Kal Raustiala, The Architecture of International Cooperation: Transgovernmental Networks and the Future of International Law, 43 VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 1 (2002).

Peter M. Haas, Introduction: Epistemic Communities and International Policy Coordination, 46(1) INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION 1 (1992).

Donald Kaniaru, The Role of Institutions and Networks in Environmental Enforcement, 6TH INECE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, VOL. 2 (2002).

Chapter 13: Competitiveness & Compliance: The Porter Hypothesis (full text chapter intro) PDF icon
13.1 The Porter Hypothesis

Michael E. Porter & Claas van der Linde, Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship, 9(4) JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES 97 (1995).

13.2 Empirical Confirmation

Glen Dowell, Stuart Hart, & Bernard Yeung, Do Corporate Global Environmental Standards Create or Destroy Market Value?, 46(8) MANAGEMENT SCIENCE 1059 (2000).

13.3 Implications for Developing Countries

Lawrence Pratt & Carolina Mauri, Environmental Enforcement and Compliance and Its Role in Enhancing Competitiveness in Developing Countries, 7TH INECE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (forthcoming 2005).

M.N. Murty, S. Kumar, Win-win Opportunities and Environmental Regulation: Testing of Porter Hypothesis for Indian Manufacturing Industries, 67 JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 139 (2003).