Environmental risks and rewards for business
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Environmental risks and rewards for business
（Environmental law series）
Wiley, 1996
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Contributions are provided from leading industrialists, politicians, policy makers and financial and legal experts on the critical environmental issues facing industry and government in Europe over the next decade. It suggests strategies for managers in industry and finance to implement good practice guidelines resulting in benefits for the company. Lessons are drawn from the US and there are a number of US contributors from industry and the environmental sector. The issues addressed include: subsidiarity and deregulation; eco-taxes and economic instruments; cost/benefit analyses of environmental legislation; the role of the new European Environmental Agency, based in Copenhagen; the greening of Central and Eastern Europe; green financial reporting; avoiding environmental pitfalls in mergers and acquisitions and other corporate activity; competition within the global economy under the GATT agreement.
Table of Contents
- Sustainable development - a challenge for European business
- winners and losers - who benefits from high environmental standards
- environmental regulation and industrial competitiveness
- the financial sector and environmental liability
- trends in corporate environmental liability
- trends in corporate environmental liability: a US/EU comparison
- crisis communication and planning: managing environmental disasters
- environmental regulation in Central and Eastern Europe and its effect on industry
- opportunities for business in the greening of Central & Eastern Europe
- creating a level playing-field in the enforcement of environmental regulations within the EU
- the European Environment Agency
- the cost and benefit of environmental legislation
- deregulation, subsidiarity, and the future for environmental protection in Europe.
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