Contaminated land policy is a key concern of governments and policy
makers across the globe, yet discussion has traditionally focused
on the particular experience of the United States. This major new
book develops a framework for assessing laws and regulations
regarding contaminated land and polluted properties, their clean up
and reuse, and the assignment of costs and responsibilities for
reclamation.In Contaminated Land, the authors, a European and two
Americans, lay out a framework for cross- national comparisons of
policy contexts as well as ways of examining the outcomes of
different approaches to contaminated land and systematically
compare approaches to this issue in both the EU and US. The use of
this framework leads to a reassessment of specific policies, such
as the polluter pays principle, which may be more successful in the
EU than it has been in the US, and subsidiarity which, while
problematic in Europe, may hold promise in a US application.
Specific issues discussed include the nature and extent of the
contaminated land problem, legal implications, regulation in the
US, the 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Liability, Compensation
and Reclamation Act, European experience and EU environmental
policy, integrated comparative analysis and some lessons for the
future. Contaminated Land offers valuable insights on policy
responses to the problem of badly polluted land from the
perspectives of planning, economics and sociology. In particular,
this volume offers frameworks for comparison of different national
settings to help determine the preferred and most promising
approaches to contaminated land in any social, economic and legal
policy context.
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