Australia's National Environmental Legislation: A Response to Early

Environmental Legislation as a Driver of Design

Around the world there is an increasing tend to introduce regulations concerning the environmental impact of products. In the automotive industry legislation has concentrated on exhaust emissions. Initially on-highway applications were regulated, but now attention has spread to include off-highway vehicles. This paper examines the impact of legislation on diesel engine manufacturers. They have ...

Decentralized enforcement of national legislation: Political influence on environmental fines in Swedish municipalities

A potential problem with local enforcement of national legislation is the varying level of application the decentralized structure may create. To study the severity of this problem, induced by mismatching local and national incentives, I look at the enforcement of the Swedish Environmental Code which is a national legislation enforced on the local level. I measure enforcement in terms of enviro...

Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes – Early Dialogue, Broad Focus and Relevance: A Response to Recent Commentaries

2011 national legislation and transnational feminism

Contemporary feminist scholarship seeks the development of transnational conversations between women in different geopolitical spaces in order to confront the problems of a global age. Yet, if these conversations are predicated on Eurocentric and ahistorical understandings of South/North, first/third world and metropole/colony, feminism risks replicating these dichotomies in the name of a unive...

Legal Conditions for Renewable Energies: a Comparison of National Legislation

The European energy sector has been undergoing significant changes since the beginning of the liberalization process in the UK in 1989. In 2003 major parts of the electricity sector in Europe have been liberalized and the remaining parts will follow during the next few years. This paper focuses on the promotion of renewable energy sources as an alternative to fossil fuels when aiming at a susta...