Beyond Environmental Regulatory Fragmentation

Signs of Integration in the Case of the Great Lakes Basin

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6264330
AutoresBarry G Rabe (University of Michigan), Janet B Zimmerman (University of Michigan)
Año1995
Volumen8
Número1
Páginas58-77
Fecha de publicación1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGovernance (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0952-1895 • E-ISSN: 1468-0491
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-0491.1995.tb00197.x
OpenAlexW1974226158
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas18

Environmental regulatory fragmentation along the medium boundaries of air, land, and water in Canada and the United States serves to skiff pollutants from medium to medium rather than contain or eliminate them. This pattern is particularly evident in the Great Lakes Basin where many of the most pressing environmental problems stem from pollutant transfer across medium or jurisdictional lines. The impediments to more integrated environmental regulation remain considerable in the Basin, and include the enduring single‐medium orientation of federal programs and limitations of state, provincial, or regional innovation. Nonetheless, there is growing indication that regulatory integration need not be dismissed as a theoretical nicety but political impossibility. A series of recent developments indicate a shift toward greater integration in the Basin, prompted in large part by environmental policy professionals who increasingly recognize the limitations of current approaches and are willing to devise alternatives. These developments are occurring at the regional as well as state and provincial levels, and they give far greater definition than ever before to the idea of integrated environmental regulation

Environmental planning · Environmental protection · Fragmentation (computing · Geography · Impossibility · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Structural basin · Canadian Policy and Governance · Computer Science · Law · Legal and Constitutional Studies · Regulation and Compliance Studies · Ecology · Geology