Saving Our Streams: The Role of the Anglers' Conservation Association in Protecting English & Welsh Rivers - Couverture rigide

Bate, Roger

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0255364946 ISBN 13 : 9780255364942

Editeur : Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001

Synopsis

In Saving Our Streams, Roger Bate explains the history of an unusual and remarkably effective 'environmental' organisation - the Anglers' Conservation Association (ACA). Founded in 1948, the ACA is a voluntary association of angling clubs and individual anglers which brings civil suits against polluters who harm fishing. Dr Bate's original and instructive history explores how the ACA, using the common law, has operated to indemnify its members against the cost of litigation, bringing thousands of actions and being awarded hundreds of injunctions and millions of pounds in damages for plaintiffs. Most cases end in out-of-court settlement which, though efficient, brings little public recognition to the ACA. The ACA has not sought the limelight, unlike other environmental groups, but, argues Dr Bate, it is the most efficient and determined pollution prevention body in Britain. Its success demonstrates the value of private initiatives against polluters.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Institute of Economic Affairs
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0255364946
• ISBN 13: 9780255364942
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 125
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• Personne responsable: non disponible