For decades Americans have been trying to reverse the momentum of urban decline. In an effort to ensure that abandoned, contaminated properties were cleaned up, Congress enacted the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, or CERCLA, also known as the...

This paper explains and explores how a controversial waste development in the rural town of Molong, Australia was approved under the maligned, and since repealed, Part 3A of the New South Wales (“NSW”) Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979. It adopts a legal geography approach to...

International institutions are important regulators of the trade-environment relationship. Many of them deploy trade measures for environmental purposes, with mixed results. The Basel Convention is a typical case where designated strong trade restrictions have failed to curb movements of...

Numerous studies have investigated environmental justice (EJ) concerns in the context of the Superfund program. Previous studies, however, are limited by their inability to capture the characteristics of communities with land contamination at the timing of the siting, regional focus, varying...

This paper investigates the compliance behavior of firms that are simultaneously regulated by multiple environmental programs. Three possible relationships among compliances with multiple programs are considered: complementarity, substitution and independence. These relationships reflect the...

This paper examines capital controls in two ways. First, it assesses whether capital controls have an economic justification within the context of an economyâ  s and, in particular, its financial sectorâ  s stage of development. It concludes that capital controls can be justified...