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Enforcing Environmental Regulation: Implications of Remote Sensing Technology

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  • MacAuley, Molly K.
  • Brennan, Timothy J.

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We review economic models of environmental protection and regulatory enforcement to highlight several attributes that are particularly likely to benefit from new enforcement technologies such as remote sensing using satellites in space. These attributes include the quantity and quality of information supplied by the new technologies; the accessibility of the information to regulators, regulatees, and third parties; the cost of the information; and whether the process of information collection can be concealed from the observer. Satellite remote sensing is likely to influence all of these attributes and in general, improve the efficacy of enforcement.

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  • MacAuley, Molly K. & Brennan, Timothy J., 1998. "Enforcing Environmental Regulation: Implications of Remote Sensing Technology," Discussion Papers 10464, Resources for the Future.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:rffdps:10464
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.10464
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    1. Stavins, Robert & Jaffe, Adam & Newell, Richard, 2000. "Technological Change and the Environment," RFF Working Paper Series dp-00-47, Resources for the Future.
    2. Peterson, Sonja, 2004. "Monitoring, accounting and enforcement in emissions trading regimes," Open Access Publications from Kiel Institute for the World Economy 3155, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
    3. Jaffe, Adam B. & Newell, Richard G. & Stavins, Robert N., 2003. "Chapter 11 Technological change and the environment," Handbook of Environmental Economics, in: K. G. Mäler & J. R. Vincent (ed.), Handbook of Environmental Economics, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 11, pages 461-516, Elsevier.

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