This book provides a timely and comprehensive analysis of how regulation can be leveraged to address worsening environmental harm, particularly in key areas such as water pollution and deforestation.
Leading scholars outline the theoretical underpinnings of regulation and their practical applications, demonstrating how regulation manifests across various environmental domains and within social and policy contexts. The book provides crucial insights into the intensifying global climate crises, focusing on the regulation of issues such as air, land, plastic and microplastic waste pollution. Chapters explore challenges and successes in the field, covering key topics including responsive and risk-based regulation, environmental permitting, water law and governance, market mechanisms and capacity-building in international climate law.
The Research Handbook on Environmental Regulation is an essential read for scholars and students of environmental law, political science, business, geography and climate studies. It is also beneficial for national and international government agencies looking to tackle the current climate crisis.
This book provides a timely and comprehensive analysis of how regulation can be leveraged to address worsening environmental harm, particularly in key areas such as water pollution and deforestation.
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The most significant book on environmental regulation for over a decade. The perspectives that over thirty world experts bring to the subject are impressive and enlightening, covering underlying justifications of regulation as well as issues of practical impact and implementation. Given the current political threats to environmental regulation from many quarters, the publication of this Handbook could not be more timely. -- Richard Macrory, CBE, Hon K.C., University College, London, UK
Contents
1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on Environmental Regulation 1
David Williamson, Gary Lynch-Wood, and Agne Prochorskaite
PART I APPLYING REGULATORY THEORY TO ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION
2 The economic theory of environmental regulation 23
Andrew Angus
3 Responsive regulation in the context of environmental regulation 51
Jeroen van der Heijden
4 Reflexive governance and law 63
Sabine Weiland
5 Regulating environmental risks: epistemic and political challenges of
risk-based approaches to environmental regulation 77
Cameron Holley and Carley Bartlett
6 Environmental regulation by nudge 93
Marta Santos Silva
7 Structural choices for environmental regulation 114
David Williamson and Gary Lynch-Wood
8 Users in low-carbon transitions: adaptive regulation, citizen-centredness
and energy communities 128
Siddharth Sareen
PART II EVALUATION OF REGULATORY TECHNIQUES
9 The challenges of environmental permitting and industrial pollution control
in the green transition 142
Patrik Söderholm
10 Market mechanisms in environmental regulation 158
Donald J. Kochan
11 Transnational private environmental regulation: are states striking back?
172
Errol Meidinger
12 Is self-regulation sustainable? Broad scopes, blurred signals, and
contested values 197
Mallory Elise Flowers
13 From mixes of regulation to regulatory pluralism 212
Deborah Curran
PART III USING REGULATION TO TACKLE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
14 Enabling legal capacity for Paris implementation: communities of practice,
climate justice, and the law 230
Tejas Rao and Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
15 Air pollution and the global political economy of regulation 246
Reece Walters and Alexander Baird
16 Using regulation to tackle land pollution 259
Ravi Naidu, Solmaz Bidast, Bhabananda Biswas, and Reinikainen Jussi
17 Essence of water: evolving perspectives on international water law and
governance 274
Fozia Nazir Lone
18 Microplastic threat: new studies and policies to reduce plastic waste
pollution in the marine environment 290
Arup Kumar Poddar
19 Regulating plastics across life cycles 309
Rosalind Malcolm
20 Chemical safety assessment: a study in regulatory entrenchment 324
Robert Lee, Aleksandra avoki, and Laura Holden
21 Navigating the legal framework towards a safe disposal of nuclear waste in
Europe 340
Jakub Handrlica
22 Biodiversity basics: the biodiversity crisis and popular regulatory
approaches for its mitigation 357
Ebba Hooft Toomey and Tineke Lambooy
23 Deforestation and forest degradation regulations 377
Metodi Sotirov
24 Regulation and desertification 394
Ian Hannam
25 Regulation of genetically modified organisms: objectives, approaches,
principles, concepts, and instruments 408
Hans-Georg Dederer
26 US hydraulic fracturing: a case study in evolving environmental governance
426
Hannah J. Wiseman
27 Environmental regulation and regulatory takings 440
Chris Tollefson and Anthony Ho
28 Concluding remarks 458
David Williamson, Gary Lynch-Wood, and Agne Prochorskaite
Edited by David Williamson, Professor Emeritus, University of Staffordshire and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Law Department, University of Manchester, Gary Lynch-Wood, Senior Lecturer, Law Department, University of Manchester, UK and the City University of Hong Kong and Agne Prochorskaite, Independent Researcher
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