Amenities, Amenities, Amenities? How Policy Makers Can SWOT Their Way to Better Entrepreneurial Facility Options

Across the country, policymakers from both the public and private sector, regardless of their level of responsibility, turn to entrepreneurial ventures as an opportunity to drive economic activity within their sphere of influence. They develop and implement strategies that encourage new business ventures but fail to consider a fundamental aspect of the organizing process of a business, which is finding a suitable facility. As such, this article seeks to consider and evaluate the various forms and types of facilities available to entrepreneurs in order to provide policymakers with an insight as to the best methods to assist in facilitating their success while providing a template for a SWOT analysis as a tool for developing a robust policy strategy

Amenities, Amenities, Amenities? How Policy Makers Can SWOT Their Way to Better Entrepreneurial Facility Options

Across the country, policymakers from both the public and private sector, regardless of their level of responsibility, turn to entrepreneurial ventures as an opportunity to drive economic activity within their sphere of influence. They develop and implement strategies that encourage new business ventures but fail to consider a fundamental aspect of the organizing process of a business, which is finding a suitable facility. As such, this article seeks to consider and evaluate the various forms and types of facilities available to entrepreneurs in order to provide policymakers with an insight as to the best methods to assist in facilitating their success while providing a template for a SWOT analysis as a tool for developing a robust policy strategy

The Environmentally Conscious Skies: Did the European Union’s Game of Brinksmanship Lead to a Viable Global Plan for Emissions Trading in Aviation?

Effective January 1, 2012, the European Union (EU) instituted the first emissions trading scheme (ETS) for aviation, which affected the domestic and international commercial airlines flying into and out of the EU. The EU established the ETS to counter the global aviation sector’s role in releasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; however, such measures were met with heavy opposition by foreign countries, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), various commercial airlines and the Air Transport Association of America (ATA). This Article analyzes the legality of the EU’s unilateral ETS approach with respect to the commercial airline industry, examines the subsequent development of the ICAO’s global market based members (MBM) program, reviews strategic political strategies implemented by foreign nations to counter the EU’s unilateral action, evaluates the ICAO’s recent developments in instituting a global trading scheme to reduce GHG emissions, and analyzes policy issues with respect to the ICAO’s MGM program as it applies to the EU ETS

Commercial-Property Leases as a Means for Private Environmental Governance

Commercial-property leases as a means for private environmental governance routinely get overlooked despite their noticeable presence. The applicable theoretical models used in environmental law and the standards that typically measure legal activity fail to detect the commercial-property lease as a regulatory action as well. Moreover, the public and positive law and policy approach of the past that heavily relied on administrative authority now follows more of a private law and governance approach. The private law and governance approach responds to the marketplace where standards are set, enforcement occurs, and dispute resolution takes place between parties involved in the transaction outside of the supervision of the legislative process, the governmental agencies, or the courts. This approach toward private environmental governance in commercial-property leases occurred in response to legislation that imposed liability on landlords and other parties for a tenant’s ecological transgressions and mounting pressure from highly publicized unethical and irresponsible behavior that stimulated a heightened corporate consciousness to embrace sustainability benchmarks. This article evaluates and provides evidence that the private activities of the parties involved in commercial-property leases fit within the paradigm of a new model tied to environmental governance. To this end, commercial-property leases offer a unique insight into the motivations and approaches taken by the engaging parties while providing guidance as to how best to encourage and craft ecological and sustainable solutions under a private environmental-governance model for land use