Doctoral Dissertation Research: Reactive Enforcement and Environmental Equity in Air Pollution Regulation

9310535卡根这个项目涉及社区地位和当地环境条件之间的关系。大量证据表明，工业环境危害对穷人和少数族裔社区的影响不成比例，但人们对造成这种差异的监管授权和行政执法做法知之甚少。这项研究将从机构对空气污染气味滋扰投诉的反应、受普通法反应结构约束的监管领域以及对当地规范和环境多样性的承诺的背景下审议这一问题。从对机构工作人员的访谈和行政记录中获得的详细案例研究将用于分析社区和投诉人在三个空气污染控制机构的公共妨害执法政策中的地位。在人口结构不同的社区内对基于投诉的执法进行机构内比较，将与处理此类争端的机构间比较结合起来。这种比较的两个层次将分别区分法律授权和行政选择对执行成果的贡献。***

9310535 KAGAN This project concerns the relationship between community status and local environmental conditions. Significant evidence points to a disproportionate impact of industrial environmental hazards on poor and minority communities but little is known about the place of regulatory mandates and administrative enforcement practices in the creation of such disparities. This study will consider this question in the context of agency responses to air pollution odor nuisance complaints, a regulatory arena subject to common law reactive structures and a commitment to local norms and environmental diversity. Detailed case studies derived from interviews of agency staff and administrative records will be used in an analysis of the place of community and complainant identity in the public nuisance enforcement policies of three air pollution control agencies. Intra-agency comparison of complaint based enforcement within demographically distinct communities will be combined with inter- agency comparison of the handling of such disputes. The two tiers of this comparison will allow distinctions to be made between the contributions to implementation outcomes of, respectively, legal mandates and administrative choices. ***