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Alberini, Anna; Austin, David H.

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“…There is ample evidence that problem severity can induce local governments to action (Kalesnikaite & Neshkova, 2020; Karch, 2006; Nice, 1994; Potoski & Woods, 2002; Sapat, 2004). This is especially true with respect to environmental concerns; previous studies have found that as environmental concerns increase—e.g., air pollution, hazardous waste, water supply stress—policymakers are more likely to innovate and adopt policies to mitigate the problem (Alberini & Austin, 1999; Ando & Polasub, 2009; Bacot & Dawes, 1996; Dolsak & Sampson, 2012; Mullin, 2008; Mullin & Rubado, 2016). In places where severe drought occurs with regularity, it is not unreasonable to expect local authorities to be more likely to see water conservation policies as critical to the survival and prosperity of their communities.…”

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“…In fact, we argue that local governments will be more likely to include MBIs in their policy toolkit where they both prioritize environmental concerns and operate within a conservative political climate. The political context that defines a local policy space has an important effect on environmental policy decisions (Alberini & Austin, 1999; Bacot & Dawes, 1996; Font & Subirats, 2010; Kim & Verweij, 2016; Olmstead & Stavins, 2009)—sometimes even more important than the natural/physical context (Stafford, 2008). Given the presence of severe drought, we expect a local government that views sustainability—and especially water conservation—as a local policy priority to be more inclined to use MBIs.…”

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Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability

Bailey

Kwon

Wright

2022

Review of Policy Research

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Given the myriad of policy instruments aimed at enhancing water quantity conservation available to municipalities, what drives them to opt for a market‐based instrument (MBI)? MBIs can be effective and efficient policy instruments to enhance water quantity conservation, but there is little known about why municipalities utilize them. This study hypothesizes that three contextual elements influence a municipality's use of an MBI: the natural, political, and structural environment. The results from two logistic regression models suggest that in a municipality suffering a higher drought level, both a conservative political environment and operating under a council‐manager form of government (with the effect more pronounced under a non‐council‐manager form) will increase the likelihood that it will use an MBI to address water conservation.

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Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability

Bailey

Kwon

Wright

2022

Review of Policy Research

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Strict Liability as a Deterrent in Toxic Waste Management: Empirical Evidence from Accident and Spill Data

Alberini

Austin

1999

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

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This paper explores the issue of whether strict liability imposed on polluters has served to reduce uncontrolled releases of toxics into the environment. Strict liability should create additional incentives for firms to handle hazardous substances more carefully, thus reducing the future likelihood of uncontrolled releases of toxics. However, the size of these incentives may vary according to the size of a firm's assets, since asset size is the ultimate limit on a firm's liability. We are therefore interested to see whether imposing strict liability for the cost of remediation at hazardous waste sites has encouraged firms to handle toxic materials more carefully and has uniformly reduced the incidence of toxic spills, or whether the effect is dependent on firm size and other factors.To answer these questions, we exploit the variation in state hazardous waste site laws across states and over time. We use data on accidents and spills involving hazardous substances coming from a comprehensive database of events reported to the US EPA under their Emergency Response Notification System (ERNS), and fit regressions relating the frequency of spills of selected chemicals used in manufacturing to the type of liability in force in a state. We control for the extent of manufacturing activity in the state, and include in the regression other program features that might alter firms' expected outlays in the event of an accident, and thus affect firms' incentives to take care.Results vary with the chemical being analyzed. For some chemicals, such as halogenated solvents, the presence of strict liability does not provide any additional explanatory power for the number of spills beyond what is achieved by the number of establishments and the sectoral composition of manufacturing. For other families of chemicals (acids, ammonia and chlorine), we find that the impacts of manufacturing activities on the number of spills in each state do vary systematically with the liability regime. In particular, it appears that under strict liability small firms are responsible for a disproportionate number of spills. Since strict liability states tend to have more manufacturing firms, and more small manufacturing firms, these factors serve to increase the number of spills of these chemicals in strict liability states.

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Liability as a complement to environmental regulation: an empirical study of the French legal system

Bentata

2013

Environ Econ Policy Stud

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Cited by 23 publications

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Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability

Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market‐based instruments for local water sustainability

Strict Liability as a Deterrent in Toxic Waste Management: Empirical Evidence from Accident and Spill Data

Liability as a complement to environmental regulation: an empirical study of the French legal system

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