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Voluntary Approaches to Environmental Protection

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This talk summarizes the results of a series of papers that John Maxwell and I (along with colleagues at other universities) have been working on for some time. Our goals are to understand why companies voluntarily engage in environmental protection, and to understand the implications of these actions for social welfare and for government policy.1

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Lyon, T.P., Maxwell, J. (2000). Voluntary Approaches to Environmental Protection. In: Bonser, C.F. (eds) Security, Trade, and Environmental Policy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4399-2_28

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