Deficits in EU and US Mandatory Environmental Information Disclosure Legal, Comparative Legal and Economic Facets of Pollutant Release Inventories /

• Main Author: Bünger, Dirk (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Law.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Public international law.; International environmental law.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Air pollution.; Pollution prevention.; International Environmental Law.; Public International Law.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.; Industrial Pollution Prevention.

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,...

Table of Contents:

• 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.