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Pollution Limits and Polluters' Efforts to Comply : The Role of Government Monitoring and Enforcement
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Earnhart, Dietrich.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chemical industry--Waste disposal--United States.
- United States.
- United States. Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
- Water--Pollution--Government policy--United States.
- Water--Pollution--Law and legislation--United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Chemical industry--Waste disposal--United States.
- United States.
- United States. Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
- Water--Pollution--Government policy--United States.
- Water--Pollution--Law and legislation--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- This book integrates the fields of economics and law to empirically examine compliance with regulatory obligations under the Clean Water Act (CWA). It examines four dimensions of federal water pollution control policy in the United States: limits imposed on industrial facilities' pollution discharges; facilities' efforts to comply with pollution limits, identified as ""environmental behavior""; facilities' success at controlling their discharges to comply with pollution limits, identified as ""environmental performance""; and regulators' efforts to induce compliance via inspections and e
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Scope of Analysis: Sample of Regulated Facilities; 3. Summary of Research Questions and Review of Previous Studies; 4. Discharge Limits Imposed on Discharging Facilities; 5. Environmental Behavior: Facilities' Efforts to Comply with Discharge Limits; 6. Environmental Performance: Facilities' Discharges and Compliance with Discharge Limits; 7. Regulatory Efforts to Induce Compliance with Discharge Limits; 8. Effect of Government Interventions on Environmental Behavior
- 9. Effect of Government Interventions on Environmental Performance10. Summary, Conclusions, Policy Implications, and Future Research; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780804777605
- 0804777608
- OCLC:
- 726734859
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