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Not paying for our past: Government, business and the debate on contaminated land in the UK
Author(s) -
Maltby Josephine
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
business strategy and the environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.123
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1099-0836
pISSN - 0964-4733
DOI - 10.1002/bse.3280040204
Subject(s) - contaminated land , government (linguistics) , context (archaeology) , function (biology) , business , environmental ethics , political science , contamination , geography , ecology , philosophy , archaeology , evolutionary biology , biology , environmental remediation , linguistics
It is difficult to overemphasize the extent to which battles over the availability of information played a fundamental role in environmental controversy (Hays, 1987: 537). Since the 1990 Environmental Protection Act, there has been controversy in the UK about the extent to which businesses should be required to identify and clean up contaminated land. This paper examines the controversy in the context of wider debates about the function of corporate social reporting.