Environmental regulation: governments, businesses, and activists

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Effective environmental protection norms require cooperation between environmental activists and the business community. 'Elusive Saviours: Transnational Corporations and Sustainable Development' by Hans Heerings and Ineke Zeld enrust provides insight into the conflicting relationship between business and the environment and the corporate resistance to green laws. Bron Raymond Taylor's 'Ecological Resistance Movements: The Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism' analyzes radical environmental activism and provides a comprehensive overview of ecological resistance movements.

Business, Criticism and interpretation, Environmental law, Bibliography, Heerings, Hans, Taylor, Bron Raymond

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Public choice, institutional economics, environmental goods

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Classical economics promises a better beginning point to an institutional understanding of environmental problems than does the public choice theory. The public choice theory, which explains regular application of standard economic theory to non-market spheres, discounts the cost-benefit analysis assumption that political actors are harmless vehicles of environmental policy. Environmental issues and problems can be best explained using explanatory and normative assumptions of classical economics.

Economic aspects, Ecology, Institutional economics, Social choice

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Science and environmental risk: The case of perchlorate contamination in California

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The concerns over ground and surface water contamination in areas of Southern California by perchlorate, a non-biodegradable chemical used in rocket fuel and military arms, and the politics behind the changing levels of risk provided by the risk assessment process are discussed. The role played by the US National Research Council (NRC) in the debate in determining a regulatory standard, and the possible socio-economic consequences in these contradictions are analyzed.

All Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing, Waste Management and Remediation Services, California, Water Pollution, Industrial inorganic chemicals, not elsewhere classified, Ammonium Perchlorate

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