Leveraging the Private Sector offers the first sustained analysis of public and private sector initiatives designed to encourage firms and industries to use their own management expertise to improve their environmental performance. Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash bring together original empirical studies by the nation?s leading experts on recent public and private sector experiments. Do management-based strategies lead to improved environmental outcomes? What kinds of strategies hold the most promise? Leveraging the Private Sector addresses these questions through studies of state pollution prevention planning laws, private sector purchasing requirements, and federal risk management regulations, among others. The contributors show that efforts to leverage private sector experience and knowledge can have a distinctive contribution in the future of environmental protection. Ultimately, a firm's broader management practices shape its environmental performance. Public and private sector strategies that seek to influence these practices directly can help bring about further environmental improvements. This book breaks new ground by investigating a new and promising approach for advancing the economy and the environment.

Part I: Management-Based StrategiesManagement-Based Strategies: An Emerging Approach to Environmental Protection --Cary Coglianese and Jennifer NashEnvironmental Management Style and Corporate Environmental Performance -- Robert A. KaganPart II: Mandates and RegulationEvaluating Management-Based Regulation: A Valuable Tool in the Regulatory Tool Box? -- Lori Snyder BennearThe RMP Rule and Management-Based Regulation -- Paul R. KleindorferEnvironmental Management Under Pressure: How Do Private-Sector Mandates Affect Performance? --Richard N. L. Andrews, Andrew Hutson, and Daniel Edwards, Jr.Mandating Insurance and Using Private Inspections to Improve Environmental Management -- Howard Kunreuther, Shelley Metzenbaum, and Peter SchmeidlerPart III: Incentives and PressuresThe Promise and Limits of Voluntary Management-Based Reform: An Analysis of EPA's Strategic Goals Program -- Jason Scott JohnstonClean Charles 2005 Initiative: Why the 'Success'? -- Tapas Ray and Kathleen SegersonThe Role of Management Systems in Stakeholder Partnerships -- Andrew KingPart IV: ConclusionThe Promise and Performance of Management-Based Strategies -- Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash