Transnational Environmental Regulation and Governance
Purpose, Strategies and Principles

A guide to the meaning of environmental regulation in an era of transnational cooperation for sustainability.

Veerle Heyvaert (Author)

9781108415743, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 November 2018

312 pages, 1 b/w illus. 4 tables
23.4 x 15.7 x 2.1 cm, 0.57 kg

'Transnational Environmental Regulation and Governance is an excellent book. It is creative, well structured, deeply researched, and analytical. The book is very well written and easy to read.' Melissa Powers, Transnational Environmental Law

A large and growing proportion of contemporary environmental regulation is transnational, which means that it is impossible to understand environmental governance without a firm grasp of the nature of transnational environmental regulation (TER). In this illuminating work, Veerle Heyvaert offers readers a comprehensive discussion of TER, including analysis of international environmental agreements, regional and EU regulation, private environmental regulation, and governance networks, arguing that TER is highly diverse but sufficiently cohesive to allow the identification of shared characteristics that establish TER as a model of regulation. The book uncovers the key features of TER, and analyses the various intentions of TER regulators, TER's governance principles and compliance strategies, using a newly developed activity-based methodology for regulatory analysis. This book should be read by anyone seeking to understand the strengths and weaknesses of transnational environmental governance and its contribution to sustainability.

1. The transformation of environmental regulation
2. The concept of transnational environmental regulation
3. Why regulate beyond the state?
4. Strategies for environmental regulation: the recursive activities of regulation
5. The activity-based model for TER strategies illustrated in five easy pieces
6. The transformation of environmental regulatory strategies
7. Transnational environmental regulation and the challenge to law
8. Legal principles for transnational environmental regulation
9. Environmental regulation transformed.

Subject Areas: International organisations & institutions [LBBU], International environmental law [LBBP], International law [LB], International relations [JPS]