Voluntary agreements as a way to stimulate industrial environmental management and their conditions for success

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1553-1561

  Bressers, Hans ^a   de Bruijn, Theo ^b   Franco, Laura ^a   Lulofs, Kris ^a   Xue, Yanyan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b SAXION UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c The Climate Group   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental management; Innovation; Negotiated agreements; Policy instruments; Voluntary schemes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891682596     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2013.190     Document Type: Article

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