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Environment and Enforcement: Regulation and the Social Definition of Pollution

Keith Hawkins

Print publication date: 1984

Print ISBN-13: 9780198275145

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198275145.001.0001

Introduction

Chapter:
(p. 2 ) (p. 3 ) 1. Introduction
Source:
Environment and Enforcement
Author(s):

Keith Hawkins

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198275145.003.0001

This introductory chapter draws a distinction between compliance and sanctioning systems or enforcement strategies. It also presents a brief account of the formal organization of pollution control. The law itself makes general statements and formulates specific prohibitions, but it is up to administrative agencies to make policy and fill in the details.

Keywords:   enforcement, compliance, sanctions, pollution

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