Integrated Pollution Control Change and Continuity in the UK Industrial Pollution Policy Network - Studies in Green Research

Using recent theories of public policy making, this book analyzes UK experience of Integrated Pollution Control (IPC) ? the Government?s flagship pollution policy measure. Policy network analysis is used to explain why this new regulatory regime came about in 1990, and how its implementation has failed to meet initial aspirations. As such, the book provides a valuable exposition of the multiple, complex factors behind environmental policy making in action. - - IPC intended to improve pollution control by regulating industrial releases to all three environmental media in the round. It was also supposed to introduce formality, transparency and accountability to the criticised intimacy of existing regulator ? regulated relations. Initial attempts by the regulator to adopt this new approach were thwarted by industrial inertia and opposition. An exclusive policy community, with an influential industrial membership, re-established its domain over pollution control. More radical measures are needed to overcome the forces which this book identifies as hindering effective environmental protection.