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Pollution, Regulation, and Evaluation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Leslie L. Roos Jr  and
Noralou P. Roos
Leslie L. Roos Jr
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
Noralou P. Roos
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
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Understanding pollution is only partly a matter of becoming informed about technical variables and processes. It is also — or even predominantly — a matter of gaining knowledge about social and economic systems. As is the case with many other issues, we need to know why these systems “produce the results they do and how we can use understanding of them to produce more desirable ones” (Kneese, 1970: 190).

The current emphasis on environmental problems has resulted in the passage of new legislation and increasing public pressure upon individual companies seen as polluters. However, the factors which influence organizations to change their ways are rather hazy. In the absence of clear market controls, particular businesses may fight environment-oriented legislation, complying only when political and legal avenues have been exhausted. Other businesses may announce their intent to help clean up the environment and initiate action in this regard with relatively little prodding on the part of the public, state and federal bureaucracies, or conservation groups.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , May 1972 , pp. 509 - 529
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Copyright © 1972 The Law and Society Association

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Footnotes

AUTHORS' NOTE: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1971 Financial Management Association Meetings in Denver, Colorado, October 8-9. This research was aided by support from the Graduate School of Management and the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science and Technology, Northwestern University. The authors would like to thank Lettie Wenner, Richard Liroff, and Chris Snyder for their help with this research.

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