Abstract
What influences municipalities to proactively enact more stringent environmental standards relative to the central state’s stipulated
requirements? What is the role of environmental need (risk) in determining the level of action? And what is the relationship between
objective risk indicators and subjectively perceived ones? Does Collaborative Management (CM) at the local level influence the
stringency of local environmental legislation? This paper employs SEM analysis combining survey data from all municipalities in
Israel with an analysis of local bylaws to address these questions. Doing so enables us to contribute the following insights to the
research literature. First, we add to the thin extant literature on the role of municipalities in addressing environmental problems and
construct a model of factors affecting stringent environmental regulation. Second, the study extends the very small number of nonUS studies regarding environmental outputs in municipalities. Third, our study answers the call to investigate conditions under which
CM enhances environmental achievements. Fourth, the study further contributes to understanding the importance of perceived risk
for explaining local environmental policies and how they are influenced by CM. The results demonstrate the important role of both
perceived risk and CM in influencing the stringency of local environmental regulation.
requirements? What is the role of environmental need (risk) in determining the level of action? And what is the relationship between
objective risk indicators and subjectively perceived ones? Does Collaborative Management (CM) at the local level influence the
stringency of local environmental legislation? This paper employs SEM analysis combining survey data from all municipalities in
Israel with an analysis of local bylaws to address these questions. Doing so enables us to contribute the following insights to the
research literature. First, we add to the thin extant literature on the role of municipalities in addressing environmental problems and
construct a model of factors affecting stringent environmental regulation. Second, the study extends the very small number of nonUS studies regarding environmental outputs in municipalities. Third, our study answers the call to investigate conditions under which
CM enhances environmental achievements. Fourth, the study further contributes to understanding the importance of perceived risk
for explaining local environmental policies and how they are influenced by CM. The results demonstrate the important role of both
perceived risk and CM in influencing the stringency of local environmental regulation.
| Original language | American English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2-7 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Review of Public Administration & Management |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| State | Published - 2015 |