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.

Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in urban regeneration of underutilized and unutilized areas and the requisite infrastructure improvements. In particular, each case study details the project cycle, from the scoping phase and determination of the initial amount of public sector investment, to implementation and subsequent leveraged private-sector funds. This manual analyzes rates of return on the investments and long-term financial sustainability. Regenerating Urban Land guides local governments to systematically identify the sequence of steps and tasks needed to develop a regeneration policy framework, with the participation of the private sector. The manual also formulates specific policies and instruments for expanding private sector participation; structuring effective administrative and legal frameworks; utilizing land readjustment/assembly methods; determining duration of contracts, adequate phasing, and timeline; and balancing the distribution of risk and sustainability measures.

The authors would like to express their appreciation for the contributions of the Steering Group on the Private Sector, who played a key role in shaping the priorities of this research as well as the survey design and key definitions. [...] We would also like to thank the organizations that participated in the pilot stage of the survey for piloting the content and format of the survey and providing us with preliminary data and feedback. [...] Drawing on the results of a comprehensive survey, this report provides a broad overview or map of how the 62 CSOs who responded to the survey2 are currently engaging the private sector, what the key dynamics are of this engagement, and what organizations are planning to do in the future. [...] As such, this report helps illuminate the great depth, variety, and complexity of the different approaches being taken, underscores the vast and diverse experience that Canadian CSOs have in engaging the private sector, and identifies the current and changing priorities of CSOs involved in Canadian international cooperation with respect to engaging the private sector - adding further nuance to the [...] But such partnerships and promotion on the part of CSOs must carefully balance two essential dimensions: the role of the private sector in contributing to positive development outcomes, on the one hand, and keeping corporations accountable to global standards and the law, on the other.

This book assesses dimensions of the investment climate in Nepal that shape opportunities for investments, employment, and growth of private firms. It includes data and analysis from five surveys on challenges to the investment climate, and provides policy recommendations to address these challenges.

This study draws on practical examples from North America and Europe to show how municipal and regional authorities can capitalise on private financing for economic development purposes.