Corporate Environmental Management and Public Policy

Bridging the Gap

Bibliographic Data

ID5031619
AuthorsDennis A Rondinelli (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Michael A Berry (0000-0001-7120-6821, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year2000
Volume44
Issue2
Pages168-187
Publication date2000-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00027640021956152
OpenAlexW1984381015
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited5

Environmental policies have brought dramatic improvements in air and water quality during the past 25 years, but further expansion of command-and-control regulations is likely to have diminishing marginal returns. Corporations are taking new initiatives in managing their environmental impacts in ways that reduce their costs, increase their efficiency, lower their liabilities, and enhance their competitiveness while reducing pollution, conserving resources, and eliminating waste. In the future, significant gains in environmental quality are more likely to come from widespread adoption of pollution prevention practices than from more stringent regulation of end-of-pipe emissions. Bridging the gap between public policy and the trends in private-sector management will require fundamental changes in federal and state governments' approaches to regulation. New policies must use economic incentives to encourage clean manufacturing and the adoption of pollution prevention technologies and forge public-private partnerships for improving environmental quality

Business · Control (management) · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental quality · Incentive · Natural resource economics · Pollution prevention · Private sector · Public economics · Public policy · Engineering · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies

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