VOLUNTARY AGREEMENTS AS A VEHICLE FOR POLICY LEARNINGVoluntary Agreements • October 1st, 2009
Present literature identifies policy learning (PL) as contributing to effective and efficient policy design and management processes. Similarly, the participatory nature of specific voluntary agreements (VAs) has been identified as contributing to increased policy framework effectiveness and efficiency. Against this background, this study aims to prove the hypothesis that an increased attention to the possibilities for PL that exists in the VA policy framework can contribute to a better design of VAs, as well as potentially providing more positive evaluations thereof if acknowledging said learning. Hence, the study analyses to which extent that the literature acknowledges VAs’ learning potentials, and evaluates which policy recommendations that can be provided to increase the potential for PL. The study finds that VAs in the form of negotiated agreements are more successful in promoting PL than other types of VAs that have less focus on the participatory aspect of the policy processes.
Voluntary Agreements and the Environmental Efficiency of Participating FarmsVoluntary Agreements • January 20th, 2003
VOLUNTARY AGREEMENTS TO IMPROVE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: ARE LATE JOINERS THE FREE RIDERS?Voluntary Agreements • November 1st, 2007
∗ Corresponding author. The authors acknowledge financial support from the following three sources: US Environmental Protection Agency Star Program grant #GR829687-01-0, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science grant # SEC2001-1578-C02-01 and SEJ04-07877-C02-02.
Voluntary AgreementsVoluntary Agreements • November 27th, 2019
Participants in the Voluntary Agreements (VA) process are already at work with early implementation projects throughout the Sacramento River Basin, making habitat enhancements and activating floodplain acreage to benefit fish and wildlife in the region and beyond.
May 15, 2020Voluntary Agreements • May 15th, 2020
In early February, we were on the brink in California water of a historic resolution of longstanding conflicts through comprehensive voluntary agreements that embrace collaboration and innovative solutions. Now more than ever, California needs your personal leadership in bringing all parties back to the table to complete the work of finishing the voluntary agreements. The voluntary agreements will improve water supply reliability, including for fish and wildlife and urban and agricultural water users throughout the state.
Voluntary AgreementsVoluntary Agreements • February 18th, 2020
Sacramento Valley residents, farms and businesses, while at the same time stewarding ecosystems to benefit endangered species. California water suppliers, farmers, cities, conservation organizations and state and federal agencies have developed an innovative approach to restore the ecosystem of the Bay-Delta watershed
Voluntary Agreements - Shasta Safe Harbor Incidental Take AgreementVoluntary Agreements • January 31st, 2023
Voluntary Agreements as a policy instrument for food waste reductionVoluntary Agreements • June 28th, 2018
Voluntary agreementsVoluntary Agreements • May 1st, 2019
The combination of water, land and sunlight has proven throughout time to be the equation for proper life support and healthy population numbers for all species. California’s valley floor is a perfect testament to what is possible when all three work in harmony.
Voluntary AgreementsVoluntary Agreements • January 18th, 2005
In many cases it isn’t necessary to involve the police or the courts to solve cases of antisocial behaviour. Sometimes it is enough simply to explain why a particular type of behaviour is unacceptable and to come up with a model for acceptable behaviour, or put in place some steps to prevent the antisocial behaviour happening again.
November 4, 2021Voluntary Agreements • November 3rd, 2021
We, the signatories on this letter, wish to express our gratitude for the recent letter sent by Secretary Crowfoot and Secretary Blumenfeld calling for the implementation of Phase I of the Bay-Delta Plan. We see this as the first step to an improvement in flow
10- DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICESVoluntary Agreements • May 5th, 2020
Voluntary Agreements as a policy instrument for food waste reductionVoluntary Agreements • May 25th, 2018
Voluntary agreements as an instrument to substitute regulating and economic instrumentsVoluntary Agreements • September 26th, 2022
Voluntary agreements in various forms are being increasingly regarded as an instrument to substitute or complement regulating and pricing instruments. As, from a theoretical point of view, this instrument has strong proponents and opponents, it is important to make a careful analysis of the achievements of current voluntary agreements and their specific advantages or drawbacks in their specific objective and social context. The following paper analyses the voluntary agreements of the German economy with respect to CO2 emission targets, achievements up to 1995, the monitoring process implemented, as well as the foreseeable progress up to 2005. The analysis distinguishes among the industrial branches (where trade associations signed the declaration for their member companies), the electricity supply sector and the remaining energy sector (gas and water supply, municipal supply companies, mineral oil trade), which, for the first time, has declared reduction targets for their clients. For
Voluntary Agreements in the Industrial Sector in China1Voluntary Agreements • April 7th, 2004
China faces a significant challenge in the years ahead to continue to provide essential materials and products for a rapidly-growing economy while addressing pressing environmental concerns. China’s industrial sector is heavily dependent on the country’s abundant, yet polluting, coal resources. While tremendous energy conservation and environmental protection achievements were realized in the industrial sector in the past, there remains a great gulf between the China’s level of energy efficiency and that of the advanced countries of the world. Internationally, significant energy efficiency improvement in the industrial sector has been realized in a number of countries using an innovative policy mechanism called Voluntary Agreements. This paper describes international experience with Voluntary Agreements in the industrial sector as well as the development of a pilot program to test the use of such agreements with two steel mills in Shandong Province, China.
VOLUNTARY AGREEMENTS AS A WAY TO STIMULATE INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND THEIR CONDITIONSVoluntary Agreements • December 2nd, 2013
Numerous governments have adopted innovative policy instruments to deal with important environmental policy challenges. Various forms of negotiated instruments may offer the potential to improve on environmental performance beyond what regulation alone can accomplish. Dutch covenants, which represent negotiated agreements with sectors of industry as targets of behavioral change in terms of mitigation of pollution, waste minimization and sustainable products and processes, provide a useful sample from which evidence can be drawn regarding the determinants of success.
