The limits of law : the public regulation of private pollution
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Peter Cleary Yeager
- ناشر : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 1991
- شابک / ISBN : 9780521365352
Description
Contents Preface page vii Acknowledgments xi 1 The social production of business offenses 1 The analysis of business offenses 3 The legal regulation of industrial water pollution 12 2 Bringing the law back in: an integrated approach 17 A critical perspective on social regulation 20 A structural model of social regulation 47 Conclusion 49 3 The politics of water: pollution policies to 1970 51 Early control efforts 53 The politics of symbolism 59 4 Contradiction and change: environmental consciousness and the mobilization of law 84 Contradictions in policy and economy 84 Structure, culture, and consciousness 98 The mobilization of law 110 5 Legislating clean water: changing conceptions of environmental rights 130 The politics of law, the laws of politics 131 The congressional debates: on legislating a mandate 147 6 Controls and constraints: from law to regulation 176 The requirements of rulemaking 178 The rigor of regulation 187 Of science, politics, and law: the regulation of toxics 216 The impacts of law 242 vi Contents 7 Enforcement: the social production of environmental offenses 251 Water enforcement at the EPA 253 Compliance and enforcement: a study of EPA's Region II 267 Structural bias in regulatory law 276 Conclusion 292 Appendix A: methodological issues in the study 296 Appendix B: tables showing regression coefficients for models 301 8 Ecology, economy, and the evolution of limits 303 The limits of law 306 The limits of rationality 323 The limits of the environment 327 Bibliography 332 Index 353
