Voluntary agreements in environmental protection: experiences in Germany and future perspectives

A Business Sustainability Model for Government Corporations. A Belgian Case Study

“…Likewise, Rennings et al . (, p. 261) stressed that ‘soft instruments of environmental policy can certainly serve to accompany tough regulatory measures’ (see also Persson, ). By such tool packaging, the time the market requires to absorb additional funding is reduced.…”

Sustainable WEEE management solution for developing countries applying human activity system modeling

“…But in voluntary approach that is implemented without changing the national regulations. It can be initiated by individual companies, industries, or even the government, without the legal requirement of participating in the program (Rennings et al, 1997). This approach is also useful in administration and has the benefit of lower compliance costs when compared to mandatory government regulations (OECD, 2001;Jain and Deshpanda, 2012).…”

Urban Governance and the Transition of Energy Systems: Institutional Change and Shifting Energy and Climate Policies in Berlin

“…In contrast to this, studies conducted on the different forms of private sector participation prove that the shift from public to private service provision brings about new regulatory tasks for a professional contractual management and for the evaluation and supervision of private sector performance by public authorities. Requirements vary here, depending on whether it is a case of outsourcing state and local government services (O’Looney, 1998), of energy service contracting (Sorrell, 2007), of voluntary agreements (Rennings et al. , 1998) or of long‐term private sector participation contracts (Rothenberger and Truffer, 2003).…”