Agriculture and the Polluter Pays Principle
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This volume introduces the reader to the polluter pays principle and addresses the application of the principle to agricultural activities in a number of nations in the EU and
The polluter pays principle requires the polluter to bear the expense of preventing, controlling and cleaning up pollution. Agricultural practices result in both benefits and burdens to the environment-it often provides attractive rural landscapes and preserves valued habitats, but emissions from agricultural operations (livestock wastes, agricultural chemicals) may pollute water, air and soils or degrade habitat and landscape.
The time is opportune, therefore, to evaluate the application of the polluter pays principle to agricultural activities Application of the principle to agriculture has raised particular difficulties, in part because the diffuse nature of emissions from agriculture poses regulatory obstacles and because agriculture is sometimes exempt from environmental controls that apply to other industries. Society's recent focus on environmental harms from agriculture, however, suggests that lawmakers may enact more stringent regulation.
Margaret Rosso Grossman
Margaret Rosso Grossman is Professor and Bock Chair in Agricultural Law, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois (US). She is the author of numerous
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