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Commons Ignorance - 9781600420122
Un libro in lingua di Wagner Wendy E. edito da Vandeplas Pub, 2007
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One of the most significant problems facing environmental law is the dearth of scientific information available to assess the impact of industrial activities on public health and the environment. After documenting the significant gaps in existing information, this book argues that existing laws both exacerbate and perpetuate this problem. By failing to require actors to assess the potential harm from their activities, and by penalizing them with additional regulation when they do, existing laws fail to counteract actors' natural inclination to remain silent about the harms that they might be causing. Both theory and practice confirm that when the stakes are high, actors not only will resist producing potentially incriminating information but will invest in discrediting public research that suggests their activities are harmful. The book concludes with specific recommendations about how these perverse incentives for ignorance can be reversed.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Commons Ignorance
- Sottotitolo: The Failure of Environmental Law to Provide the Information Needed to Protect Public Health and the Environment
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Wagner Wendy E.
- Editore: Vandeplas Pub
- Collana: Vandeplas Pub (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Settembre '07
- Genere: LAW
- Argomenti : Environmental law United States Hazardous substances Law and legislation United States Hazardous substances Risk assessment United States
- Peso gr: 294
- Dimensioni mm: 234 x 165 x 12
- ISBN-10: 1600420125
- EAN-13: 9781600420122