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Environmental Policy And Federal Structure: A Comparison Of The United States And Germany, Susan Rose-Acherman
Environmental Policy And Federal Structure: A Comparison Of The United States And Germany, Susan Rose-Acherman
Vanderbilt Law Review
The assignment of tasks to the appropriate level of government is an important aspect of environmental policy design. Because the costs and benefits of pollution control policies are closely tied to geography, political solutions should reflect the underlying spatial structure of environmental problems. These solutions should not only incorporate the long-distance effects of air and water pollution, but also account for the mobility of economic actors and the resource base of governments.
There are three general types of environmental problems. Global issues have no complex geographical component. Regional problems arise when political boundaries do not coincide with the pollution's geographical …