Governmental Environmental Action: Legal Bases and Restraints

Forthcoming in Richards and van Zeben (eds.) Policy Instruments in Environmental Law (Edward Elgar, 2020)

18 Pages Posted: 2 Apr 2020

Date Written: March 9, 2020

Abstract

Governments are environmental actors, both as regulators and as contributors to environmental impacts. In both capacities, governmental action tends to be regulated by, and based on, different legal bases as compared to private action. Since governments are capable of acting in ways that individuals cannot (for instance through the exercise of police power), governmental action is held to different standards and has to take place within specific mandated parameters. However, as the distinguishing differences between ‘public’ and ‘private’ actors and actions are becoming less pronounced, we may need to reconsider the existing restrains on public and private actors and actions.

Keywords: Governmental action, legal basis, restraints, public, private, authority

Suggested Citation

van Zeben, Josephine A. W., Governmental Environmental Action: Legal Bases and Restraints (March 9, 2020). Forthcoming in Richards and van Zeben (eds.) Policy Instruments in Environmental Law (Edward Elgar, 2020), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3551226

Josephine A. W. Van Zeben (Contact Author)

Wageningen University and Research ( email )

Hollandseweg 1
Wageningen, 6706KN
Netherlands

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