Structural constraints and pluralist contradictions in hazardous waste regulation
Special issue on « Real » regulation
Environmental management ; Legislation ; Location ; Location choice ; Nuisance ; Regulation theory ; State control ; Toxic waste ; United States ; Waste treatment
The AA. assert that the basic assumptions of hazardous waste regulation define the problem as a locational problem confronting the state, rather than an investment problem for the capital. Local opposition to facility siting is explained in terms
Administration ; Capitalism ; Economic restructuring ; Epistemology ; Legislation ; Regulation theory ; Social practice ; Social theory ; State control
Based on Bonanno's (1987) model, this paper provides examples showing that without locational regulation, antimonopoly regulation leads to the worst social welfare, and protection of a monopolist is justifiable in a spatial market.
The changes of lower Vistula channel caused by human impact is discussed. The problem of XIXth century regulation works and Vistula channel daming at Włocławek is presented. The morphodynamic of the sand bars (mesoforms) on the different developed
reaches of lower Vistula (unregulated, regulated, downstream from the Włocławek dam) are introduced. On the basis of literature and own studies carried out in the lower Vistula channel, the hydrology of mesoforms constructed. The bed-load balance
Canada ; Citizenship ; Federalism ; Legislation ; Regulation theory ; Security ; Social theory ; State control ; Territoriality ; United States ; Work ; Working conditions
The A. concludes that urban coalitions are necessarily related to changing wider divisions of labor and modes of regulation. The urban political economy recognizes that processes acting at various scales produce unique forms of urban politics
A new convergence of opinion and public policy is emerging by the 1990s, involving a mix of direct environmental regulations, the use of pricing and fiscal measures to influence personal and business choice in transport matters and a reexamination
Local Government Acts regulate land-use and control development. Their relationship with environmental control is fundamental. The planning acts are administered by 87 local authorities. Planning is seen as an advisory element within the current
of the 1980s re-clustering of ethnic groups has become apparent, and the government has intervened by tightening control through a new set of regulations.