Regulatory Enforcement, Riskscapes, and Environmental Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6330264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David M Konisky (0000-0002-1146-3938, Georgetown University, corresponding author), Christopher Reenock (0000-0003-0108-7198) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-36 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/psj.12203 |
| OpenAlex | W2592976715 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 48 |
Does environmental regulation vary over poor and minority communities? An uneven governmental response may follow from regulators' varying incentives to negotiate enforcement challenges. We argue that regulators confront two in particular. Regulators can pursue political enforcement, responding to mobilized interests, regardless of environmental risk, or they can pursue instrumental enforcement, responding to at‐risk communities, regardless of political mobilization. To examine these competing strategies, we use an original dataset from the EPA's Risk‐Screening Environmental Indicators model to develop a geographic “riskscape” combined with census tract community data and facility‐level enforcement data. We find that state regulatory agencies pursue a mixture of political and instrumental enforcement, but that these tactics are applied unevenly across traditional environmental justice communities. Specifically, state agencies devote more attention to facilities in communities with relatively higher risk, but less attention in the area of punishment for violations for facilities located in Hispanic communities. Importantly, this lack of attention to Hispanic communities is not mediated by the relative level of risks that they face, but it is to a significant extent in communities in which environmental justice advocacy organizations operate
Business · Economic Justice · Enforcement · Environmental justice · Political science · Law · Regulation and Compliance Studies · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
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Landscapes that work for biodiversity and people
The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments
Disrupting the riskscapes of inequities
Continuity and change in national riskscapes
The Washington State Environmental Health Disparities Map
Environmental justice and just transition in Harris county, Texas
Who participates in energy activism? Profiling political engagement in the United States
Gas Leaks, Gas Shutoffs, and Environmental Justice in New York City
Patterns of air pollution enforcement in Canada
Rights of Nature in the United States
Drinking Water Injustice
Inequality in Agency Response
Chain of command vs. Who’s in command
The effectiveness‐equity tradeoff when resources decline
Bureaucratic response to performance information
Representative Bureaucracy, Distributional Equity, and Environmental Justice
Does Disclosure Matter? Coupling Information to Performance in Texas
Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials
The State of State Environmental Policy Research
Failed Promises
The Effectiveness of Environmental Monitoring and Enforcement
Blacks and the Environment
Environmental Inequality in Exposures to Airborne Particulate Matter Components in the United States
The Enforcement of Pollution Control Laws
Which came first, people or pollution? Assessing the disparate siting and post-siting demographic change hypotheses of environmental injustice
Assessing evidence of environmental inequities
Inequities in enforcement? Environmental justice and government performance
Testing for Environmental Racism
Environmental Inequalities
Skewed Riskscapes and Gentrified Inequities
Reassessing racial and socioeconomic disparities in environmental justice research
Who Lives on the Wrong Side of the Environmental Tracks? Evidence from the EPA's Risk‐Screening Environmental Indicators Model
Environmental Justice and Patterns of State Inspections
Examining Environmental Justice in Facility-Level Regulatory Enforcement
Whose Risk in Philadelphia? Proximity to Unequally Hazardous Industrial Facilities
Two effective causal paths that explain the adoption of US state environmental justice policy
Environmentalism and Public Policy
Environmental Justice and Southern California’s “Riskscape
Compliance Bias and Environmental (In)Justice
A Question of Justice
A Twenty‐First‐Century Reception for Diversity in the Public Sector
Administrative Discretion and Active Representation
The Pursuit of Social Equity in the Federal Government
Goal Displacement
The Limited Effects of Federal Environmental Justice Policy on State Enforcement
Policy Implementation and the Environmental Protection Agency
Principal-Agent Models
The Shadow of the Politics of Deservedness? The Implications of Group-Centric Policy Context for Environmental Policy Implementation Inequalities in the United States
The Political Evolution of Principal-Agent Models
Cooptation or Transformation? Local Policy Networks and Federal Regulatory Enforcement
Law
States of Environmental Justice
Representative Bureaucracy
Regulatory Enforcement in a Federalist System
Racial Inequality in the Distribution of Hazardous Waste
Interneighborhood Migration, Race, and Environmental Hazards
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |