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New Tools for Environmental Protection: Education, Information, and Voluntary Measures (2002)
Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS)

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. "20. Understanding Voluntary Measures." New Tools for Environmental Protection: Education, Information, and Voluntary Measures. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2002.

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Front Matter (R1-R12)
Part I: Introduction, 1. Exploring New Tools for Environmental Protection (1-16)
2. Changes in Pollution and the Implications for Policy (17-42)
Part II: Information and Education for Individuals, Households, and Communities (Introduction) (43-48)
3. Marketing Household Energy Conservation: The Message and the Reality (49-66)
4. Knowledge, Information, and Household Recycling: Examining the Knoweldge-Deficit Model of Behavior Change (67-82)
5. Promoting 'Green' Consumer Behavior with Eco-Labels (83-104)
6. The Public Health Perspective for Communicating Environmental Issues (105-124)
7. Understanding Individual and Social Characteristics in the Promotion of Household Disaster Preparedness (125-140)
8. Lessons from Analogous Public Education Campaigns (141-146)
9. Perspectives on Environmental Education in the United States (147-160)
10. A Model of Community-Based Environmental Education (161-182)
11. Community Environmental Policy Capacity and Effective Environmental Protection (183-200)
12. Changing Behavior in Households and Communities: What Have We Learned? (201-212)
Part III: Voluntary Measures in the Private Sector (Introduction) (213-218)
13. Government-Sponsored Voluntary Programs for Firms: An Initial Survey (219-234)
14. Industry Codes of Practices: Emergence and Evolution (235-252)
15. Harnessing the 'Power of Information': Environmental Right to Know as a Driver of Sound Environmental Policy (253-262)
16. Challenges in Evaluating Voluntary Environmental Programs (263-282)
17. Assessing the Credibility of Voluntary Codes: A Theoretical Framework (283-302)
18. Factors in Firms and Industries Affecting the Outcomes of Voluntary Measures (303-310)
19. The Policy Context for Flexible, Negotiated, and Voluntary Measures (311-318)
20. Understanding Voluntary Measures (319-334)
Part IV: Conclusion, 21. New Tools for Environmental Protection: What We Know and Need to Know (335-348)
About the Contributors (349-356)