马萨诸塞州环境信托基金

IF 0.3 4区 社会学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Charles H. W. Foster, Frances H. Foster
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1988年,马萨诸塞州立法机构成立了马萨诸塞州环境信托基金来管理波士顿港污染解决基金。从那时起,马萨诸塞州环境信托基金已成为创新管理和分配环境解决基金的全国模式。本文根据马萨诸塞州环境信托内部人士的个人描述和档案记录,介绍了该信托的历史和分析。分析暴露了环境沉降实践的重大缺陷。结算过程是不可预测和不透明的。结算方往往缺乏有效运用结算资金所需的专业知识。然而,它们没有咨询、参与或告知那些最能协助这一努力的人——受影响的社区和环境专家。和解条款往往更看重惩罚和威慑,而不是环境效益。即使在解决环境损害问题时,他们对环境损害的定义也过于狭隘。因此,这些资金往往用于短期、小规模甚至不相关的项目,而作为和解主题的许多损害仍未得到解决。马萨诸塞州环境信托基金提供了一个以环境为中心的模式,旨在提高可预测性、透明度、参与性和扩大结算基金的使用。马萨诸塞州环境信托的经验表明,一个拥有环境专业知识、社区知识、联系和声誉的独立第三方
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The Massachusetts Environmental Trust
In 1988, the Massachusetts legislature established the Massachusetts Environmental Trust to administer Boston Harbor pollution settlement funds. Since that time, the Massachusetts Environmental Trust has emerged as a national model for innovative management and distribution of environmental settlement funds. This Article presents a history and analysis of the Trust based on personal accounts by Massachusetts Environmental Trust insiders and archival records. The analysis exposes significant flaws in environmental settlement practices. The settlement process is unpredictable and opaque. The settling parties often lack the expertise needed to apply settlement funds effectively. Yet, they fail to consult, involve, or inform those who could best assist in that effort—affected communities and environmental experts. Settlement terms frequently value punishment and deterrence over environmental benefit. Even when settlements seek to address environmental damage, they define that damage too narrowly. As a result, the funds often go to short-term, small-scale, or even unrelated projects while much of the damage that was the subject of the settlement remains unaddressed. The Massachusetts Environmental Trust provides an environmentcentered model designed to enhance predictability, transparency, participation, and expanded use of settlement funds. The Massachusetts Environmental Trust’s experience demonstrates that an independent third party with environmental expertise and community knowledge, contacts, and reputation
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期刊介绍: Ecology Law Quarterly"s primary function is to produce two high quality journals: a quarterly print version and a more frequent, cutting-edge online journal, Ecology Law Currents. UC Berkeley School of Law students manage every aspect of ELQ, from communicating with authors to editing articles to publishing the journals. In addition to featuring work by leading environmental law scholars, ELQ encourages student writing and publishes student pieces.
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