Fusing Economic and Environmental Policy: The Need for Framework Laws in the United States and Argentina

Abstract:     
Resource use and conservation - production and protection - are fused in this constitutional prescription. The Argentine congress is now struggling to define a national strategy for achieving sustainable development. What remains to be done, in Argentina, as in the U.S., is to find the proper balance of authority and responsibility among national, provincial, and local governments, as well as between the private and public sectors, to implement these guarantees. What legislation the Federal Congress in Argentina will pass, and how the relationship between sectors and among these levels of government will evolve, is the drama that is unfolding in this South American country

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