The theoretical context of regulation / Barry Barton -- Alternative regulation and governance reform in resource-rich developing countries of Africa / Yinka O. Omorogbe -- Sustainable energy development in Latin America and donor driven reform : what will the World Bank do? / Lila K. Barrera-Hernández -- International soft law and globalization / Catherine Redgwell -- Contemporary United States energy regulation / John Gulliver and Donald N. Zillman -- Self-regulation, state regulation, and co-regulation in energy in New Zealand / Barry Barton -- The political economy of regulation : developments in British energy regulation under labour / Aileen McHarg -- System operation : from self-regulation to public regulation / Ulf Hammer -- A new role for the state-energy regulatory reform in Denmark / Anita Rønne -- Conventional regulation renascent but changing alternatives to regulation : the German experience / Gunther Kühne -- Re-regulating the electricity and gas sector in the Netherlands : from self-regulation via state regulation to regulation via state ownership / Martha M. Roggenkamp -- The European electricity and gas regulatory forums / Leigh Hancher and Iñigo Del Guayo -- State-company relations in offshore oil exploitation : regulatory and contractual analyses / Terence Daintith -- Efficiency and environmental sustainability : using market mechanisms for water resources regulation in Australia / Lee Godden -- Voluntary approaches and formal regulation : climate change and Canada's energy sector / Alastair R. Lucas and Veronica Potes -- Alternatives to conventional regulation in United States environmental law / George (Rock) Pring and Rick A. Feger -- The use of environmental audits and self-regulation schemes for environmental protection in Mexico / José Juan González Márquez -- The voluntary initiative of the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) in the measures to cope with global warming / Kazuhiro Nakatani -- Regulation around the world / Donald N. Zillman.