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Vietnam And The United States: Mining Pollution And The Tragedy Of The Commons, Heather Whitney
Vietnam And The United States: Mining Pollution And The Tragedy Of The Commons, Heather Whitney
Heather Whitney
This paper will discuss Vietnam’s mining pollution problem, and its efforts to foster clean water create and an environmental protection framework within its Constitution, environmental laws and regulations. This paper will also juxtapose these issues with the United States’ regulatory mechanisms for mining and water quality protection, which in comparison are complex and well-rounded, but nonetheless still have regulatory and enforcement loopholes that prevent proper water quality protection. In Vietnam, like most developing countries, regulations and policy statements place socioeconomic growth above water quality protection that frustrates these efforts. Environmental and water quality laws and regulations in Vietnam have not …
Vietnam, China, And The United States: The Regulatory Framework Of Mining Pollution And Water Quality, Heather Whitney
Vietnam, China, And The United States: The Regulatory Framework Of Mining Pollution And Water Quality, Heather Whitney
Heather Whitney
This paper compares the environmental, mining, and water quality policy and regulatory framework of three countries: Vietnam, China, and the United States. There are many similarities between China and Vietnam’s legal framework and environmental protection mechanisms, by virtue of the fact that they are both socialist countries, both authoritarian governments, and both in the midst of an industrial revolution. The United States intersects in some areas of water quality standards and technological controls of effluents with both countries, as well as certain enforcement measures. This is true especially in China, where the EPA has actively consulted the Chinese government in …