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Overcoming Legal And Institutional Barriers To The Implementation Of Innovative Environmental Technologies, David Strifling, Walter Mcdonald, Hannah Hathaway, Joe Naughton
Overcoming Legal And Institutional Barriers To The Implementation Of Innovative Environmental Technologies, David Strifling, Walter Mcdonald, Hannah Hathaway, Joe Naughton
Notre Dame Journal on Emerging Technologies
This paper examines the possible reasons that stormwater management system operators (typically municipalities) have generally been reluctant to adopt RTC technology.
Our interdisciplinary team of law faculty, engineering faculty, and graduate students from both disciplines studied dozens of examples involving RTC implementation in the United States and abroad. We also examined the literature detailing institutional barriers to RTC innovation. Finally, we reviewed numerous legal decisions related to municipal liability for stormwater management (or mismanagement).
From this foundation, we distilled several institutional and legal barriers that prevent municipalities from embracing this particular type of innovation. The paper suggests a variety of …