Unit 2: The Legal System Within The UK |
2.6 The Environment and Privatisation This topic will only be briefly focused upon and you will be expected to read around the subject further, as it is a supplementary component of the core content of the course. Over the past decade and beyond, the UK has endured wide ranging privatisation of many of the main utilities. A question that you must bear in mind, key to the future advance of environmental protection, is the level to which regulatory bodies will develop sufficient long-term strategies for environmental protection.
Further reading on Privatisation
Reference Material: Baldwin R. (ed) (1995) Regulation in Question: The Growing Agenda. London School of Economics, London. Beesley M (ed) (1994) Regulating Utilities: The Way Forward. London Institute of Economic Affairs, London. Bishop M. Kay J, and Mayer C. (1995) The Regulatory Challenge. Oxford University Press, oxford. |