The Law and Economics of Environmental Information Regulation

Abstract

Since the mid-1990s, there has been substantially increasing academic interest in use of information disclosure as a regulatory tool to affect environmentally related behavior by firms. This Article reviews recent scholarly literature on informational regulation in the environmental arena, focusing primarily upon work contained in major economics and legal journals. During the course of this review, various theories, frameworks, and principles underlying contemporary thinking and analysis on informational regulatory approaches to environmental protection will be identified and considered.

Keywords: envioronmental information regulation, mandatory disclosure, law and economics