Setting quality standards for environmental management policy: How effective is it?

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2002

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Makati City, Philippines: Philippine Institute for Development Studies

Abstract

In the face of continuing environmental degradation in the Philippines brought about by, among other causes, urbanization and industrialization, it is important to ask what has been done in terms of adopting a policy to address such degradation and assess how effective that policy has been in achieving its objective.

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Environmental impacts, Government policy, Laws and regulations, Pollution control, Economic impacts, Environmental law, Abatement costs, Economic incentives, "Polluter pays" principle, Environmental quality standards, Environmental policy, Command-and-control principle, Market-based instruments, Enforcement, Compliance, Governance

Citation

Policy Notes 2002-03