Deficits in EU and US Mandatory Environmental Information Disclosure

Legal, Comparative Legal and Economic Facets of Pollutant Release Inventories
2012
ISBN: 978-3-642-43751-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 490 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 779 g

It is the publicity about the Pollutant Release Inventory’s data which creates an incentive for firms to achieve emission reductions. Accordingly, public access to environmental information constitutes a core characteristic of the aforementioned inventory. Here, in essence, two facets arise. First, with regard to the collection, it is disputed whether such information, which may comprise confidential commercial and industrial information in the EU as well as trade secrets in the US, can be protected under fundamental and constitutional property rights respectively. Second, in the context of dissemination and utilisation, it is arguable whether the information indeed impacts polluters and produces an outcome that secures a certain level of environmental protection. The author responds to the first issue by taking the EU and US jurisdictions into account and strives to analyse how this novel form of Internet disclosure liberates market mechanisms in the quest for effective and efficient emission reductions.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bünger, Dirk

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Verwaltungs-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Preliminaries.- 2 Development of Pollution Reduction Instruments.- 3 E-PRTR under EU Environmental Information Laws: The Collection.- 4 TRI under US Environmental Information Laws: The Collection.- 5 Dissemination and Utilisation of Environmental Information.- 6 Summary.