Many highly industrialized countries are rapidly adopting "new" environmental policy instruments (NEPIs) such as eco-taxes, tradable permits, voluntary agreements and eco-labels. This apparently profound shift has prompted widespread claims that NEPIs have eclipsed regulation as the preferred tool of environmental policy.
This volume offers a fresh perspective on the evolving tool-box of environmental policy by providing a systematic analysis of the policy and politics surrounding the adoption and use of the main NEPIs in a variety of countries. By blending political theories with fresh empirical material, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume assess the claim that NEPIs have supplanted regulation, heralding a new era of environmental governance in which the state plays a secondary role in sustainability policy-making. 

The use of so-called "new" environmental policy instruments such as eco-taxes, tradable permits, voluntary agreements and eco-labels has prompted widespread claims that these devices have replaced regulation. These papers offer a fresh perspective on the evolving tool-box of environmental policy. - from Amzon 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. The Politics Of ‘Light-Handed Regulation’:
‘New’ Environmental Policy Instruments In
Australia-Elim Papadakis And Richard Grant………………….....................P. 27

2. Struggling To Live Behind A Highly Regulatory Past?
‘New’ Environmental Policy Instruments In Austria-Rudiger K. W.
Wurzel, Lars Bruckner, Andrew Jordan And Anthony R.Zito………….......P.51

3. The Politics Of Regulatory Reform: ‘New’ Environmental
Policy Instruments In Finland-Rauno Sairinen………………………............…P. 73

4. The Politic Of Bounded Innovation: ‘New’ Environmental
Policy Instruments Infrance-Joseph Szarka…………………………................P. 93

5. From High Regulatory States To Social And Ecological
Market Economy? New’ Environmental Policy Instruments
In Germany- Rudiger K. W. Wurzel, Lars Bruckner,
Andrew Jordan And Anthony R.Zito………………………………….....................P. 115

6. Much Talk But Little Action? ‘New’ Environmental
Policy Instruments In Ireland-Brendan Flynn……………………….................P. 137

7. Instrument Innovation In An Environmental Lead States:
‘New’ Environmental Policy Instruments In
The Netherlands- Rudiger K. W. Wurzel, Lars Bruckner,
Andrew Jordan And Anthony R.Zito…………………………………......................P. 157

8. Policy Innovation Or ‘Muddling Through’?
‘New’ Environmental Policy Instruments In The
United Kingdom- Rudiger K. W. Wurzel, Lars Bruckner,
Andrew Jordan And Anthony R.Zito…………………………………......................P.179