Public Disclosure of Environmental Violations in the Republic of Korea

Hong, Jong Ho ; Laplante, Benoit ; Meisner, Craig

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: PUBLIC DISCLOSURE;    ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS & PROTOCOLS;    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;    ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & LEGISLATION;    LAW ENFORCEMENT;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-3126
RP-ID  :  WPS3126

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Since 1989, environmental authorities ofthe Republic of Korea have published on a monthly basis alist of enterprises violating the country'senvironmental rules and regulations. This may be the longestenvironmental public disclosure program currently inexistence. Over the period 1993-2001 in excess of 7,000violations have been recorded in these monthly violationlists, involving more than 3,400 different companies. Inthis paper, the authors provide a comprehensive descriptiveanalysis of this dataset. Results suggest that the newsmedia have given an important, though perhaps decliningcoverage, to the violation lists, with a focus on publiclytraded companies, failures to operate pollution abatementequipment, and prosecutions.