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NITRATES IN WATER: THE POLITICS OF THE ‘POLLUTER PAYS PRINCIPLE’

NITRATES IN WATER: THE POLITICS OF THE ‘POLLUTER PAYS PRINCIPLE’ * Susanne Seymour is a Research Officer on the Pollution Agriculture and Technology Change (PATCH) Programme and is based in the Department of Sociology o the Unif versity of Bath, UK. Graham Cox is a Director of the PATCH Programme and a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bath, UK. Philip Lowe is the Co-ordinator of the PATCH Programme and Professor of Rural Economy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Sociologia Ruralis 1992. Volume XXXII (I), .pp. 82-103 83 strategy and only recently have governments and officials given serious consideration to how these problems might be overcome. Any assessment of the case of agriculture must surely emphasize the extent to which its character calls into question one of the key principles embodied in prevailing models of regulation. There is a presumption in favour of treating pollution and damage to the environment as unwanted externalities of the production system. But the distinction between the internalities and externalities of production, which is, in any case, often only a convenient fiction, ceases to be in any way appropriate in relation to agriculture as soon as environmental concerns are accorded a serious status. As an extensive land use, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Sociologia Ruralis Wiley

NITRATES IN WATER: THE POLITICS OF THE ‘POLLUTER PAYS PRINCIPLE’

Sociologia Ruralis , Volume 32 (1) – Apr 1, 1992

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Wiley
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Copyright © 1992 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0038-0199
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1467-9523
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9523.1992.tb00920.x
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* Susanne Seymour is a Research Officer on the Pollution Agriculture and Technology Change (PATCH) Programme and is based in the Department of Sociology o the Unif versity of Bath, UK. Graham Cox is a Director of the PATCH Programme and a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bath, UK. Philip Lowe is the Co-ordinator of the PATCH Programme and Professor of Rural Economy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Sociologia Ruralis 1992. Volume XXXII (I), .pp. 82-103 83 strategy and only recently have governments and officials given serious consideration to how these problems might be overcome. Any assessment of the case of agriculture must surely emphasize the extent to which its character calls into question one of the key principles embodied in prevailing models of regulation. There is a presumption in favour of treating pollution and damage to the environment as unwanted externalities of the production system. But the distinction between the internalities and externalities of production, which is, in any case, often only a convenient fiction, ceases to be in any way appropriate in relation to agriculture as soon as environmental concerns are accorded a serious status. As an extensive land use,

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Published: Apr 1, 1992

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