Pollution Regulation in Development. System Design, Compliance and Enforcement

• Main Author: van Rooij, Benjamin (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden University Press 2008
• Series: Law, Governance, and Development
• Subjects: Pollution control; law; pollution; developing countries; China; Indonesia; Law enforcement; Local community; Newly industrialized country; Water pollution
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Over the last decades, some non-OECD countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, Colombia, Mexico, India and China have been rapidly industrializing. While this has had positive effects on economic growth, it has also caused pollution with severe effects . In response to the new pollution threat, most of the industrializing economies have installed pollution prevention and control regulations, and implementing institutions. In practice, however, the regulations often fail to achieve the desired results. This Research and Policy Note explains why the regulation of pollution in these countries is so difficult.