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effectively to a reduction of pollution levels e.g. in Delhi, but also in the Gangha river. In the paper, a law and economics … pollution cases. After examining these questions from a theoretical law and economics perspective, we turn to examining how the … effective in reducing pollution levels. The contribution therefore has two clear objectives: on the one hand, it critically …
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The concept of environmental justice is not new. While some scholars and activists trace its origins as part of the ongoing American Civil Rights Movement — a movement which emerged within the interdisciplinary connection of law and religion — this essay argues that the concept of...
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regulations. The study examines long-term monitoring data from Environment Canada’s National Air Pollution Surveillance network on …
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Without monitoring and enforcement, environmental laws are largely nonbinding guidance. Although economists and philosophers have thought seriously about the broader public enforcement of law since at least the eighteenth century, environmental monitoring and enforcement remain both understudied...
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Environmental protection and resource conservation depend on the imposition of property rights (broadly defined) because in the absence of some property system - private, common, or public - resource degradation and depletion are inevitable. But there is no universal, first-best property regime...
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preliminary inspection of the level of ambient pollution before implementing any individual inspection. Since the agency may have …
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three U.S. pollution control laws – the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act …
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(CERCLA) and the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA). Beginning with the D.C. Circuit opinion in Ohio v. Department of Interior …
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The article reviews two decades of scholars' claims that exposures to pollution and other environmental risks are …
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Study after study affirms that low-income, minority communities bear a disproportionate burden of pollution. The … continue to bear a greater burden of the health, economic and other quality of life risks and burdens associated with pollution …
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