Carl Dalhammar
Senior lecturer
An Emerging Product Approach in Environmental Law: Incorporating the life cycle perspective
Author
Summary, in English
Minimising life cycle environmental impacts requires initiative and participation from several key actors throughout the product chain, and this in turn requires clear incentives. A key question concerns how much government intervention is necessary for this purpose, or what type of government policies that are necessary or desirable. The aim of this research has been to explore the potential to use law as a tool to improve the environmental performance of products over the entire life cycle. In doing so, it examines the potential to use mandatory legal standards for life cycle environmental improvements, taking into account the political and economic context where laws are initiated, negotiated and implemented.
Department/s
- The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
Publishing year
2007
Language
English
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
Topic
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Keywords
- Trade and environment
- Product regulation
- IPP
- Integrated product policy
- Life cycle thinking
- Environmental product policy
- Environmental law
- Miljörätt
Status
Published
Supervisor
- Thomas Lindhqvist
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-91-88902-39-9
Defence date
21 September 2007
Defence time
13:15
Defence place
Room: Aula, Internationella miljöinstitutet, Tegnérsplatsen 4, Lund
Opponent
- Ludwig Krämer (Professor)