Revitalizing Environmental Federalism

Revitalizing Environmental Federalism

A Reconsideration of Environmental Federalism

This paper provides a review and assessment of the debate over environmental federalism—the issue of the roles of different levels of government in environmental management. The paper begins with the presentation of three benchmark cases that provide a framework for thinking about the issue. It then offers a review, first of the theoretical literature and second of some new, provocative empiric...

A reconsideration of environmental federalism Wallace

Environmental policymaking typically takes place in the context of a system with several levelsof government. And this raises the important issue of the appropriate role of the various governments in the setting of environmental standards, the design of regulatory measures to attain the standards, and the monitoring and enforcement of these measures. Actualpractice reveals a rather strange and ...

International Environmental Agreements, Fiscal Federalism, and Constitutional Design1

In this paper, we analyse how the prospect of international negotiations over transboundary pollution shapes intra-country transfer schemes when the governments of the countries’polluting regions are in charge of environmental policy and negotiations. Federal governments can implement compensation payments between domestic regions and matching grants prior to the international negotiations betw...

Environmental Federalism: A Survey of the Empirical Literature

Environmental Federalism: A Survey of the Empirical Literature Environmental federalism refers to the debate over the ‘optimal’ level of government at which to delegate environmental policymaking. Although this issue receives widespread attention across the globe, opinions run the gamut. The diversity of views plays out in practice as well as different federations have ‘resolved’ the issue diff...