This regulatory reflection considers an elusive question: how to secure high levels of business compliance with environmental laws? It examines, at a time of great uncertainty and challenge for environmental law and policy, what forms of regulatory intervention appear to have worked and some that have clearly failed with a view to drawing lessons. Some fresh evidence is presented on specific environmental interventions which the Environment Agency for England has found appear to work and on some which do not appear to work. It is suggested that despite its many shortcomings well-designed and enforced environmental regulation when aligned to the market delivers huge benefits to society.

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确保高水平的业务合规与环境法：有效的方法和避免的方法

这种监管思考考虑了一个难以捉摸的问题：如何确保高水平地遵守环境法令？它在环境法律和政策面临巨大不确定性和挑战之时，研究了哪种形式的监管干预措施似乎奏效了，而某些显然已经失败，以期吸取教训。提出了一些新的证据，证明特定的环境干预措施已被英格兰环境署认为有效，而有些则似乎无效。有人建议，尽管有许多缺点，但在与市场接轨时精心设计和执行的环境法规仍能为社会带来巨大利益。