Accountability and offsetting in environmental law enforcement
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Since 2010, the Environment Agency of England has had a range flexible tools at its disposal to deal with misconduct. One such sanction, enforcement undertaking, is akin settlement where regulator and offender agree breach through promises that may restore remedy environmental harm caused by offence. The majority these undertakings further require make donations charitable causes improve environment. However, there little transparency around latter promise. Consequently, this article details findings pilot study interrogating specific implementation subset in North East England. argues more transparent process would address some accountability problems arising from findings, which show ‘community benefits’ operate as an offset mechanism instead restorative mechanism.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Law and Society
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0263-323X', '1467-6478']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jols.12346