Editorial No. 61

Paper No. 61

This paper examines how the concept of 'excessive costs' has been interpreted in the implementation of industrial pollution control in the UK. Since 1984, industrial air pollution regulation in the EU has been guided by the framework concept of Best Available Technology Not Entailing Excessive Costs (BATNEEC). With the introduction of the Integrated Pollution Prevention & Control Directive in 1...

Pundit Vol. 61 No. 9

Discussion Paper No. 2003/61

Models of economic geography predict that transportation costs directly affect demand for goods and the supply of intermediate inputs. One of the reasons that international trade is concentrated in the coastal provinces of China is that they have lower transportation costs in transporting goods to other countries than do provinces in the interior. This paper examines the relationship between th...

Editorial: Why No Borders?

This editorial article argues for No Borders as a practical political project . We first critically examine borders as ideological, generating and reinforcing inequality . We consider some responses to injustices produced by borders: the call for “human rights”; attempts to make immigration controls more “humanitarian”; and trade unions’ organizing and campaigning with undocumented workers . Re...

Investigation of Post-Menopausal Bleeding. (SIGN Guideline No 61)