Enforcing the Law - Case of the Clean Water Acts

This text provides an analysis of the EPA enforcement of the Clean Water Act and its amendments. The book uses extensive EPA data, including a survey of the EPA and state level environmental officials, to examine enforcement from the perspective of the enforcement personnel.

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Water-Quality Problem: A Study in Diversity; Chapter 2 The Institutional Setting; Chapter 3 Pragmatic Enforcement; Chapter 4 Bureaucrats and Attitudes: The Seeds of Discretion, Amelia Rouse, Robert Wright; Chapter 5 Bureaucratic Discretion and Hierarchical Political Control, Susan Hunter, Richard W. Waterman, Robert Wright; Chapter 6 Enforcement at the State Level; Chapter 7 Explaining Variations in NPDES Enforcement; Chapter 8 Water Outcomes: The Neglected Arena; Chapter 9 Conclusions and Recommendations;

About the author

Hunter, Susan; Waterman, Richard W.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Hunter, Richard W Waterman, Richard W. Waterman
• Publisher: Routledge
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.1996
• EAN: 9781563246838
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-683-8
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 390 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education