Synopses & Reviews
Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in the environment and in environmental law. This reader considers a cross-section of socio-legal work on environmental law, tracing its development over the past twenty years. It includes work from a variety of disciplines, theoretical perspectives and from an international scholarship.
About the Author
Bridget M. Hutter is Lecturer in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Table of Contents
Introduction: Socio-Legal Perspectives on Environmental Law: An Overview,
Bridget M. HutterPart I : Theoretical Approaches
1. Economics and the Environment: A Study of Private Nuisance, Anthony Ogus and Genevra Richardson
2. Structural Bias in Regulatory Law Enforcement: The Case of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Peter Yeager
Part II: Environmental Law and Science
3. Holes in the Ozone Layer: A Global Environmental Controversy, Michael S. Brown and Katherine Lyon
4. Cross-National Differences in Policy Implementation, Sheila Jasanoff
Part III : Government Regulation: Implementation and Impact
5. Compliance Strategy, Keith Hawkins
6. The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation: Towards a Unifying Framework, Robert Hahn
7. Can Social Science Explain Organizational Non-Compliance with Environmental Law?, Joseph Di Mento
Part IV : Alternative Methods of Environmental Regulation
8. Regulation and In-Company Environmental Management in the Netherlands, Marius Aalders
9. Green Markets: Environmental Regulation by the Private Sector, Peter N.Grabosky
10. Designing Smart Regulation, Neil Gunningham and Duncan Sinclair
Part V : International Environmental Law
11. Sleeping with an Elephant: The American Influence on Canadian Environmental Policy, George Hoberg
12. Towards a New Conception of the Environmental Competitiveness Relationship, Michael E. Porter and Claas Van Der Linde