Regulating pollution : a UK and EC perspective

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Title:

Author:

Hilson, Chris.

ISBN:

9781841130941

Personal Author:

Hilson, Chris.

Publication Information:

Oxford [England] ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2000.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 190 pages ; 25 cm

Contents:

Regulatory Essentials -- What is Regulation? -- Social and economic regulation -- Why Regulate? -- Environmental ethics -- Welfare economics -- Welfare economics and sustainability -- Private interest theories -- Who Regulates? -- Privatisation, Liberalisation and Deregulation -- Privatisation -- Liberalisation -- Energy -- Transport -- Redressing the problems of liberalisation -- Deregulation -- The single market -- Subsidiarity -- Deregulation in the UK -- Choosing the Level: Regulation and Federalism -- The Theoretical Case for Federal Regulation -- Physical spillovers -- Economic spillovers or preventing a "race to the bottom" -- Psychic spillovers -- Competitive spillovers -- A race to the top, or competitive advantage? -- Product spillovers -- Economies of scale versus experimental workshops -- Public choice -- Democracy -- Environmental ethics and Community law -- Practice in the EU and UK -- Subsidiarity -- Subsidiarity's scope -- Practical application and justiciability -- Devolution in the UK -- The Institutional Legitimacy of Pollution Regulation -- Legitimacy of the Institutional Arrangements for Pollution Regulation in the UK -- Expertise -- The transmission belt -- Ex post accountability -- Participation -- Legitimacy of the Institutional Arrangements for Pollution Regulation in the EC -- Accountability -- Delegation of power from national parliaments to national agencies -- Delegation of power from national parliaments to the EC -- Delegation by the EC to Member States and committees.

Subject Term:

Pollution -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.

Pollution -- Law and legislation -- European Economic Community countries.

Pollution -- Law and legislation -- European Union countries.

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Summary

This book aims to provide a comprehensive picture of UK and EC pollution regulation. Although written by a lawyer,it adopts an interdisciplinary approach to regulation, which seeks to move beyond the sociological and economic frameworks within which pollution regulation has typically been analysed in the UK. The UK and EC regulatory systems are examined within the context of 'regulatory federalism'. The aim of this is to explore how and why regulatory decisions concerning pollution are taken at different levels of a federal regulatory hierarchy.

The book begins with a discussion of the essentials of pollution regulation, including traditional economic justifications for regulation and non-economic ones based on environmental ethics. It goes on to examine subsidiarity and the appropriate level for regulation - a particularly topical issue in the light of recent devolution within the UK. Models of regulatory decision-making are then addressed, comparing the rigours of 'ecologism' with the cost-benefit based alternative of 'economism' and the more participatory style of 'republicanism'. Other chapters include a comparison of the various regulatory techniques in terms of the values of accountability, equality, certainty, efficiency and effectiveness, and an examination of regulatory enforcement, covering issues such as accountability for enforcement decisions, corporate liability, strict liability and a critical analysis of the so-called 'co-operative' approach.

CONTENTS

1 Regulatory Essentials

2 Privatisation, Liberalisation and Deregulation

3 Choosing the Level: Regulation and Federalism

4 The Institutional Legitimacy of Pollution Regulation

5 Deciding Regulatory Goals

6 Regulatory Techniques

7 Enforcement I: Enforcing National Command-and-control

8 Enforcement II: Enforcing EC Regulation, and Alternative Instruments

9 Pollution Regulation and Growth