Disclosure Strategies for Pollution Control

Disclosure strategies, which involve public and/or private attempts to increase the availability of information on pollution, form the basis for what some have called the third wave in pollution control policy (after legal regulation – the first wave – and market-based instruments – the second wave). While these strategies have become common in natural resource settings (forest certification and organic farming, for example), they are less familiar in a pollution control context. Yet the number of applications in that context is now growing in both OECD and developing countries. This survey will review what we know and don’t know about the use of disclosure strategies to control pollution and conclude with the author's sense of where further research would be particularly helpful.

[1]  Paul J. Bolster,et al.  The role of market forces in EPA enforcement activity , 1996 .

[2]  John W. Maxwell,et al.  Pollution Policy: The Role for Publicly Provided Information , 1994 .

[3]  Paul Lanoie,et al.  The Market Response to Environmental Incidents in Canada: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis , 1994 .

[4]  Leslie Lamarre,et al.  Utility customers go for the green , 1997 .

[5]  D. Moskovitz.  ‘Green pricing’: Customer choice moves beyond IRP , 1993 .

[6]  Tom Tietenberg,et al.  Emissions Trading: An Exercise in Reforming Pollution Policy , 1985 .

[7]  H. Landis Gabel,et al.  Environmental Auditing in Management Systems and Public Policy , 1996 .

[8]  Tracy R. Lewis,et al.  Protecting the Environment When Costs and Benefits are Privately Known , 1996 .

[9]  Using economic incentives to maintain our environment. , 1990 .

[10]  Madhu Khanna,et al.  Toxics Release Information: A Policy Tool for Environmental Protection , 1998 .

[11]  T. Tietenberg,et al.  The structure of penalties in environmental enforcement: An economic analysis , 1992 .

[12]  T. Tietenberg,et al.  Private Enforcement of Federal Environmental Law , 1992 .

[13]  David Wheeler,et al.  Controlling Industrial Pollution: A New Paradigm , 1996 .

[14]  T. Tietenberg.  Private Enforcement of Environmental Regulations in Latin America and the Caribbean An Effective Instrument for Environmental Management , 1996 .

[15]  Shameek Konar,et al.  Information As Regulation: The Effect of Community Right to Know Laws on Toxic Emissions , 1997 .

[16]  J. Hamilton.  Pollution as News: Media and Stock Market Reactions to the Toxics Release Inventory Data , 1995 .

[17]  A. Mannion,et al.  Environmental taxes in OECD countries: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Paris (1995) 99 pp paperback , 1997 .

[18]  M. Muoghalu,et al.  Hazardous waste lawsuits, stockholder returns, and deterrence , 1990 .

[19]  Robert W. Hahn,et al.  Economic Prescriptions for Environmental Problems: How the Patient Followed the Doctor's Orders , 1989 .

[20]  Timothy N. Cason,et al.  Why do firms volunteer to exceed environmental regulations? : Understanding participation in EPA's 33/50 program , 1996 .

[21]  David Wheeler,et al.  Citizen Complaints as Environmental Indicators: Evidence from China , 1997 .