Voluntary Initiatives : : The New Politics of Corporate Greening / / Robert B. Gibson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Gibson, Robert B. ,
• MitwirkendeR: Bregha, Francois,; Chang, Elfreda,; Clapp, Jennifer,; Gibson, Robert B.,; Griss, Paul,; Hornung, Robert,; Kerr, Margaret G.,; Lukasik, Lynda,; Lynes, Jennifer,; Macdonald, Doug,; McAllister, Mary Louise,; Mirbach, Martin von,; Moffet, John,; Muldoon, Paul,; Nadarajah, Ramani,; Parto, Saeed,; VanNijnatten, Debora L.,; Webb, Kernaghan,; Windatt, Erin,; Wolfson, Joanne,; Wylynko, Bradley D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

For many industrial interests and governments in Canada and elsewhere, voluntary initiatives are the hot new way to win greener corporate behaviour. Such initiatives, the proponents say, are more efficient than the conventional regulatory approach and will bring significant environmental improvements while reducing corporate and government costs. Veteran environmentalist are suspicious. They see more interest in cost cutting than in environmental responsibility and anticipate a de-regulatory retreat back to the bad old days of backroom deals and reliance on corporate good will. There is also a third possibility. Voluntary initiatives could play a role in a new politics of corporate greening that embraces voluntarism but integrates this with full use of regulatory tools, public scrutiny, and other means of forcing and facilitating environmental improvements in the private sector. In Voluntary Initiatives, some of Canada's foremost experts and practitioners examine the experience of such initiatives so far, debate the promises and pitfalls, and consider implications for the future politics of corporate greening. In so doing they also begin to shed light on alternative models for political action.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Questions about a Gift Horse -- Part II. Options and Issues -- 2. Non-Regulatory Environmental Measures -- 3. Voluntary Initiatives and the Law -- 4. A Sober Second Look -- Part III. Experience with Voluntary Initiatives in Canada -- 5. Responsible Care -- 6. The ARET Challenge -- 7. The Day the NGOs Walked Out -- 8. A Claim to Sustainability -- 9. Who Killed CIPSI? -- 10. The VCR Doesn't Work -- 11. The Dofasco Deal -- 12. Reluctant Followers -- Part IV. International Voluntary Initiatives -- 13. Beyond Command and Control -- 14. Environment and Value at Nortel Networks -- 15. Aiming Low -- 16. Standard Inequities -- 17. Demanding Good Wood -- Part V. Conclusions -- 18. The New Directions Group Position -- 19. Voluntary Initiatives, Regulations, and Beyond -- Appendix: The Alternatives Pocket Guide to Voluntary Corporate Initiatives for Environmental Improvement -- Index