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Article: Environmental management systems and community participation: rethinking chemical industry regulation.
- Article from:
- UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
- Author:
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INTRODUCTION
This article provides a brief introduction to the chemical industry, its economic contribution, and its environmental problems. The article identifies the key features of the industry that are likely to influence the possibilities for regulatory design. The main components and limitations of current regulatory regimes in North America, Western Europe and Australia are summarized. The main task of the article is to highlight the design of regulatory policy in harnessing a broader mix of instruments and institutional actors that are tailored to the particular circumstances of the chemical industry.
The problems focused upon are ...