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Book Synopsis Regulating the Polluters by : Alexander Ovodenko
Download or read book Regulating the Polluters written by Alexander Ovodenko and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have national governments created different international rules and institutions to address global environmental issues? Alexander Ovodenko argues that this variation can be explained by looking to a dynamic that has been thus far downplayed by the literature on global environmental governance: the structures of industries regulated by environmental rules. Regulating the Polluters inverts the literature on regulatory capture and collective action by presenting empirical evidence of the irony of market power in global environmental politics.
Download or read book The Polluters written by Benjamin Ross and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chemical pollution that irrevocably damages today's environment is, although many would like us to believe otherwise, the legacy of conscious choices made long ago. During the years before and just after World War II, discoveries like leaded gasoline and DDT came to market, creating new hazards even as the expansion and mechanization of industry exacerbated old ones. Dangers still felt today--smog, pesticides, lead, chromium, chlorinated solvents, asbestos, even global warming--were already recognized by chemists, engineers, doctors, and business managers of that era. A few courageous individuals spoke out without compromise, but still more ignored scientific truth in pursuit of money and prestige. The Polluters reveals at last the crucial decisions that allowed environmental issues to be trumped by political agendas. It spotlights the leaders of the chemical industry and describes how they applied their economic and political power to prevent the creation of an effective system of environmental regulation. Research was slanted, unwelcome discoveries were suppressed, and friendly experts were placed in positions of influence, as science was subverted to serve the interests of business. The story of The Polluters is one that needs to be told, an unflinching depiction of the onslaught of chemical pollution and the chemical industry's unwillingness to face up to its devastating effects.
Book Synopsis Environmental Regulation in China by : Xiaoying Ma
Download or read book Environmental Regulation in China written by Xiaoying Ma and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though China has created an administrative structure and regulatory programs to curb pollution, environmental quality has continued to deteriorate. Are polluters following the rules? How do regulators and polluters alike respond to ChinaOs environmental controls? This thoroughly documented study examines these central questions by analyzing compliance with programs involving wastewater discharge standards, fees, and permits. The successes and failures of these programs are tracked in comprehensive case studies and remarkably candid surveys of factory managers in six Chinese cities. The authorsO final chapter adds an international dimension by comparing Chinese water pollution control programs with their counterparts in the United States.
Book Synopsis Incentives for Pollution Control by : Jérôme Foulon
Download or read book Incentives for Pollution Control written by Jérôme Foulon and published by CIRANO. This book was released on 2000 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Both regulation and public disclosure belong in the environmental regulators' arsenal. Strong, clear standards combined with a significant, credible penalty system send the right signals to the regulated community, which responds by lowering pollution emissions. The public disclosure of environmental performance also provides strong additional incentives to pollution control"--Cover.
Book Synopsis Environment and Enforcement by : Keith Hawkins
Download or read book Environment and Enforcement written by Keith Hawkins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of law enforcement deal with police work, and many are concerned with underenforcement of selective enforcement as problems. This book shifts the focus to social and economic regulation and the issue of compliance.
Book Synopsis Environmental Improvement Through Economic Incentives by : Frederick R. Anderson
Download or read book Environmental Improvement Through Economic Incentives written by Frederick R. Anderson and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Controlling Industrial Pollution by : Robert W. Crandall
Download or read book Controlling Industrial Pollution written by Robert W. Crandall and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the effectiveness of government regulations designed to reduce air pollution and recommends changes in air pollution policies and laws.
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation by : Robert N. Stavins
Download or read book The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation written by Robert N. Stavins and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new authoritative collection comprises previously published papers on the political economy of environmental regulation: economic analyses of the processes through which political decisions regarding environmental regulation are made, principally in the institutional context found in the United States. Despite this geographic focus, many of the papers contain analytical models that are methodologically of interest and/or have lessons that are relevant in other parts of the world. In the environmental realm, questions of political economy emerge along three fundamental dimensions, which are closely interrelated but conceptually distinct: (1) the degrees of government activity; (2) the form of government activity; and (3) the level of government that has responsibility. The first three parts of the book deal respectively with these three fundamental dimensions of inquiry. The fourth part of the book examines the use of economic analysis in contemporary environmental policy. The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation will be of significant interest to environmental scholars, students and policy makers alike. 22 articles, dating from 1975 to 2003
Download or read book Super Polluters written by Don Grant and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power plants are essential to achieving the standard of living that modern societies demand and the social and economic infrastructure on which they depend. Yet their indispensability has allowed them to evade responsibility for their vast carbon emissions. Fossil-fueled power plants are the single largest sites of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, making them one of the greatest threats to our planet’s climate. Significant as they are, we lack a comprehensive understanding of the social causes that enable power plant emissions and continue to delay their reduction. Super Polluters offers a groundbreaking global analysis of carbon pollution caused by the generation of electricity, pinpointing who bears the most responsibility for the energy sector’s vast emissions and what can be done about them. The sociologists Don Grant, Andrew Jorgenson, and Wesley Longhofer analyze a novel dataset on the carbon dioxide emissions and structural attributes of thousands of fossil-fueled power plants around the world, identifying which plants discharge the most carbon. They investigate the global, organizational, and political conditions that explain these hyper-emitting facilities’ behavior and call into question the claim that improvements in technical efficiency will always reduce emissions. Grant, Jorgenson, and Longhofer demonstrate which energy and climate policies are most effective at abating power-plant pollution, emphasizing how mobilized citizen activism shapes those outcomes. A comprehensive account of who bears the blame for our warming planet, Super Polluters points to more feasible and effective emission reduction strategies that target the world’s most profligate polluters.
Book Synopsis Can Capital Markets Create Incentives for Pollution Control? by : Paul Lanoie
Download or read book Can Capital Markets Create Incentives for Pollution Control? written by Paul Lanoie and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lessons from the Clean Air Act by : Ann Carlson
Download or read book Lessons from the Clean Air Act written by Ann Carlson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the successes and failures of the Clean Air Act in order to lay a foundation for future energy policy.
Book Synopsis Emissions Trading, an Exercise in Reforming Pollution Policy by : Thomas H. Tietenberg
Download or read book Emissions Trading, an Exercise in Reforming Pollution Policy written by Thomas H. Tietenberg and published by Resources for the Future. This book was released on 1985 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Economics of Pollution Control by : Kathleen Segerson
Download or read book The Economics of Pollution Control written by Kathleen Segerson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Economics of Pollution Control is a seminal contribution that is strongly recommended as a core addition to professional, governmental, and academic library environmental studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists.' - The Midwest Book Review This volume includes a series of previously published papers that both illustrate basic principles in the economics of pollution control and represent recent advances in the field over the last fifteen years. This authoritative collection includes seminal papers, written by leading scholars in the field, which relate to the overarching issue of designing pollution control policies to reduce environmental threats. The editor successfully covers a wide range of contemporary contexts and issues and includes both theoretical papers and empirical analyses of the impacts of pollution control policies. This volume will serve as an excellent source of reference for researchers, advanced students and practicing economists interested in a contemporary overview of the field.
Book Synopsis The Theory and Practice of Command and Control in Environmental Policy by : Peter Berck
Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Command and Control in Environmental Policy written by Peter Berck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. Economists have had increasing success in arguing the merits of market-based approaches to environmental problems. By making polluting expensive, market-based approaches provide polluters with incentives to clean up, rather than mandates to stop polluting. These approaches include pollution taxes, transferable emissions permits and subsidies for pollution abatement. The purpose of this volume is to explore the situations where Command and Control (CAC) may not be all bad, and in fact might even have some advantages over market-based instruments (MBI).
Book Synopsis Chasing the Wind by : Noga Morag-Levine
Download or read book Chasing the Wind written by Noga Morag-Levine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Clean Air Act of 1970 is widely seen as a revolutionary legal response to the failures of the earlier common law regime, which had governed air pollution in the United States for more than a century. Noga Morag-Levine challenges this view, highlighting striking continuities between the assumptions governing current air pollution regulation in the United States and the principles that had guided the earlier nuisance regime. Most importantly, this continuity is evident in the centrality of risk-based standards within contemporary American air pollution regulatory policy. Under the European approach, by contrast, the feasibility-based technology standard is the regulatory instrument of choice. Through historical analysis of the evolution of Anglo-American air pollution law and contemporary case studies of localized pollution disputes, Chasing the Wind argues for an overhaul in U.S. air pollution policy. This reform, following the European model, would forgo the unrealizable promise of complete, perfectly tailored protection--a hallmark of both nuisance law and the Clean Air Act--in favor of incremental, across-the-board pollution reductions. The author argues that prevailing critiques of technology standards as inefficient and undemocratic instruments of "command and control" fit with a longstanding pattern of American suspicion of civil law modeled interventions. This distrust, she concludes, has impeded the development of environmental regulation that would be less adversarial in process and more equitable in outcome.
Book Synopsis International Politics and the Environment by : Ronald B Mitchell
Download or read book International Politics and the Environment written by Ronald B Mitchell and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides graduate students with a sophisticated overview of this increasingly important field, outlining the causes of international environmental problems and assessing the ways in which political responses have been formulated, implemented and evaluated.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Pollution by : J. Clarence Davies
Download or read book The Politics of Pollution written by J. Clarence Davies and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
