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

9310535 KAGAN本项目关注社区地位与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民族社区造成了不成比例的影响，但人们对管理任务和行政执法做法在造成这种差异方面的作用知之甚少。 本研究将考虑这个问题的背景下，机构对空气污染气味滋扰投诉，一个监管竞技场受普通法反应结构和当地规范和环境多样性的承诺。 详细的个案研究，从机构的工作人员和行政记录的访谈中得出的，将用于分析的地方社区和投诉人的身份在公害执法政策的三个空气污染控制机构。 在人口统计学上不同的社区内对基于投诉的执法进行的机构内比较将与处理此类纠纷的机构间比较相结合。 这一比较的两个层次将有助于区分法律的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. ***