Policing and polluting: The role of practices in contemporary urban environmental pollution governance |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Brescia, Italy;2. Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece;3. Umweltbundesamt, Germany;4. Politecnico di Milano, Italy;5. Instytut Badań Systemowych PAN, Poland;6. European Commission, JRC, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Air and Climate Unit, Italy;7. University of Strasburg, France;8. Institut National de l’EnviRonnement Industriel et des RisqueS, INERIS, France;1. Department of Economic and Legal Studies – University of Naples “Parthenope”, Via Ammiraglio Ferdinando Acton, 38, 80133 Naples, Italy;2. Department of Philosophical, Pedagogical and Economic-Quantitative Sciences. University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara. Viale Pindaro, 42, 65127 Pescara, Italy;3. Department of Philosophical, Pedagogical and Economic-Quantitative Sciences. University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Viale Pindaro, 42, 65127 Pescara, Italy;1. Department of Environmental Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University, Vileikos st. 8, 44404 Kaunas, Lithuania;2. Departament of Drug Technology and Social Pharmacy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Eiveniu str. 4, 50009 Kaunas, Lithuania;3. Baltic Institute of Advanced Technology, Sauletekio av. 15, 10224 Vilnius, Lithuania;1. CESAM, Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal;2. VITO, Flemish Institute for Technological Research, B-2400, Mol, Belgium;3. Brussels Environment, B-3000, Brussels, Belgium;4. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy;5. TerrAria s.r.l., Milan, Italy;1. Department of Economy, Society and Politics, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy;2. Department of Human Geography, Lund University, Sweden;3. Division of Geography, KU Leuven, Belgium;4. Institut für Soziologie, University of Vienna, Austria;5. Institute of Environmental Protection – National Research Institute, Poland;6. Department of Base Sciences and Fundamentals, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy;7. Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate—ISAC, Italian National Research Council, Italy;1. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA;2. Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA |
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| Abstract: | Over the past 30 years, urban environmental pollution governance has been increasingly influenced by ideas of New Public Management. However, there is increasing evidence that it is failing in its promise to deliver efficient and effective regulation. The critiques are mounting of risk-based approaches, where regulators are increasingly accountable for the costs (and benefits) of their interventions upon firms.There is a particular lack of research on the role of conduct and practices involved on the ‘front line’ of regulation. This constrains our ability to understand how more efficient effective urban environmental pollution control might develop. This paper focuses on the regulator field officers and business duty holders of environmental compliance, who have direct contact in the processes and administration of regulation. Applying theories of social practice to environmental regulation, the paper provides new insights into compliance and enforcement practices, as these workers seek to prevent pollution, remediate sites and manage waste. The analysis reveals disconnects between expectations of enforcing and managing compliance; and between practices of policing and polluting.Using an ethnographic-informed approach to understand the social practices of regulation has not been attempted in this way before. It reveals new insights into limitations of current approaches to regulation, and indicates interventions that could lead to improved compliance outcomes in a post-New Public Management era in urban pollution governance. |
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| Keywords: | Pollution Governance Social practices New Public Management |
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