Environmental Policymaking: Assessing the Use of Alternative Policy Instruments -- Contents -- Illustrations -- 1. Assessing Environmental Policy Instruments: An Introduction -- 2. Environmental Labeling, Innovation, and the Toolbox of Environmental Policy: Lessons Learned from the German Blue Angel Program -- 3. Global Civil Society and Global Environmental Protection: Private Initiatives and Public Goods -- 4. The Role of ISO 14000 and the Greening of Japanese Industry -- 5. Voluntary Agreements: Cornerstone or Fig Leaf in German Climate Change Policy? -- 6. Ecological Tax Reform in Germany: Economic and Political Analysis of an Evolving Policy -- 7. Assessing the Flexible Mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol: Implications of Joint Implementation and the Clean Development Mechanism for National Policy Instruments -- 8. The Costs and Benefits of Emissions Trading -- 9. Environmental Impact Statements: Gift Box or Black Box? -- 10. Institutional and Technological Constraints on Environmental Instrument Choice: A Case Study of the U.S. Clean Air Act -- Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.