04056oam 2200709Ma 450 991080865940332120231215211703.00-262-29489-30-262-29520-2(CKB)3410000000002138(EBL)4660583(SSID)ssj0000818743(PQKBManifestationID)12336627(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000818743(PQKBWorkID)10841831(PQKB)10438403(StDuBDS)EDZ0000131026(MiAaPQ)EBC4660583(OCoLC)865565282(MdBmJHUP)muse24501(OCoLC)865565282(OCoLC)1055372727(OCoLC)1066559787(OCoLC)1081209665(OCoLC-P)865565282(MaCbMITP)7531(Au-PeEL)EBL4660583(CaPaEBR)ebr11252762(EXLCZ)99341000000000213820131218d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrComing clean information disclosure and environmental performance /Michael E. Kraft, Mark Stephan, and Troy D. AbelCambridge, Mass. MIT Press©20111 online resource (264 p.)American and comparative environmental policyDescription based upon print version of record.0-262-51557-1 0-262-01495-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Information disclosure and environmental performance -- How does information disclosure work? -- Reducing toxic releases and community risks -- States of green : regional variations in environmental performance -- Facility-level perspectives on the TRI and environmental performance -- Environmental leaders and laggards : explaining performance -- Conclusions and policy implications."Coming Clean is the first book to investigate the process of information disclosure as a policy strategy for environmental protection. This process, which requires that firms disclose information about their environmental performance, is part of an approach to environmental protection that eschews the conventional command-and-control regulatory apparatus, which sometimes leads government and industry to focus on meeting only minimal standards. The authors of Coming Clean examine the effectiveness of information disclosure in achieving actual improvements in corporate environmental performance by analyzing data from the federal government's Toxics Release Inventory, or TRI, and drawing on an original set of survey data from corporations and federal, state, and local officials, among other sources.The authors find that TRI - probably the best-known example of information disclosure - has had a substantial effect over time on the environmental performance of industry. But, drawing on case studies from across the nation, they show that the improvement is not uniform: some facilities have been leaders while others have been laggards. The authors argue that information disclosure has an important role to play in environmental policy--but only as part of an integrated set of policy tools that includes conventional regulation."--Pub. desc.American and comparative environmental policy.Environmental policyUnited StatesDecision makingEnvironmental reportingUnited StatesDisclosure of informationUnited StatesENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & PolicyEnvironmental policyDecision making.Environmental reportingDisclosure of information333.71/488.60bclKraft Michael E1028903Stephan Mark(Mark Christopher),1968-1610430Abel Troy D1610431OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910808659403321Coming clean3938189UNINA