Research Catalog

Title

Regulating pollution : a UK and EC perspective / Chris Hilson.

Author

Hilson, Chris.

Publication

Oxford [England] ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2000.

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Details

Description

xxiii, 190 pages; 25 cm

Summary

This text aims to provide a comprehensive picture of UK and EC pollution regulation. Both systems are examined within the context of regulatory federalism to explore how and why decisions are taken at different levels of a federal hierarchy.

Subject

• Pollution > Law and legislation > Great Britain
• Pollution > Law and legislation > European Economic Community countries
• 86.75 environmental law
• Pollution > Law and legislation
• Verontreiniging
• Regelgeving
• Europese Unie
• Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland
• Pollution > Law and legislation > European Union countries
• Environmental law > Great Britain
• Environmental law > European Union countries
• European Economic Community countries
• Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Regulatory Essentials -- What is Regulation? -- Social and economic regulation -- Why Regulate? -- Environmental ethics -- Welfare economics -- Welfare economics and sustainability -- Private interest theories -- Who Regulates? -- Privatisation, Liberalisation and Deregulation -- Privatisation -- Liberalisation -- Energy -- Transport -- Redressing the problems of liberalisation -- Deregulation -- The single market -- Subsidiarity -- Deregulation in the UK -- Choosing the Level: Regulation and Federalism -- The Theoretical Case for Federal Regulation -- Physical spillovers -- Economic spillovers or preventing a "race to the bottom" -- Psychic spillovers -- Competitive spillovers -- A race to the top, or competitive advantage? -- Product spillovers -- Economies of scale versus experimental workshops -- Public choice -- Democracy -- Environmental ethics and Community law -- Practice in the EU and UK -- Subsidiarity -- Subsidiarity's scope -- Practical application and justiciability -- Devolution in the UK -- The Institutional Legitimacy of Pollution Regulation -- Legitimacy of the Institutional Arrangements for Pollution Regulation in the UK -- Expertise -- The transmission belt -- Ex post accountability -- Participation -- Legitimacy of the Institutional Arrangements for Pollution Regulation in the EC -- Accountability -- Delegation of power from national parliaments to national agencies -- Delegation of power from national parliaments to the EC -- Delegation by the EC to Member States and committees.

ISBN

• 184113094X
• 9781841130941
• 1841130944 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

00711695

OCLC

• ocm43673186
• 43673186
• SCSB-8871613

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library