Business and Environmental Law
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-2-2012
Abstract
This article discusses the influence of environmental law on the environment and the economy. Businesses seek to influence the stringency and design of environmental law by lobbying legislators and officials at environmental agencies. Sometimes business groups play a formal, collaborative role in the development of environmental regulations. The basic types of regulatory design for environment are presented. Environmental law can affect underlying environmental conditions and other policy criteria. The global reach of business in today's economy, combined with the global scope of some of the most salient environmental problems, increasingly creates new challenges for business and environmental law. One set of challenges centers on the complexity of the legal environment within which multinational corporations and other businesses engaged in global transactions must operate. The global nature of some of the most pressing environmental problems has created a related set of challenges linked with achieving international cooperation and coordination.
Keywords
Environmental Law, environment, economy, business, regulatory design, environmental problems
Publication Title
The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment
Repository Citation
Coglianese, Cary and Anderson, Ryan, "Business and Environmental Law" (2012). Book Chapters. 6.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_chapters/6
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199584451.003.0008
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199584451.003.0008