Freshwater pollution and industrial processes: The report of the uk royal commission on environmental pollution

✍ Scribed by Ingham, David

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 498 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0961-0405
• DOI: 10.1002/eet.3320020407

✦ Synopsis

The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has recently published a report documenting declining freshwater quality in England and Wales. David Ingham and Ray Baker discuss the implications of the report for industrial polluters, particularly the recommendations made to encourage wider adoption of incentive schemes to control water pollution. Reference is made to the Dutch ABC water and soil pollution control framework, applied i n several countries in Europe, which may form the basis of innovatory charging schemes at Community level,