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Integrated pollution control in Victorian Britain: Rethinking progress within the history of environmental law (2007)
Journal Article
Pontin, B. (2007). Integrated pollution control in Victorian Britain: Rethinking progress within the history of environmental law. Journal of Environmental Law, 19(2), 173-199. https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqm009

Three theories of the history of environmental are introduced, applied, and discussed: 'progress'; 'constraint'; and 'cycle' theories. The cycle theory is defended in relation to an extended case study of integrated pollution control legislation, 186... Read More about Integrated pollution control in Victorian Britain: Rethinking progress within the history of environmental law.

Tipping v St Helens Smelting (1865): 'Anti-development' or 'sustainable development'? (2007)
Journal Article
Pontin, B. (2007). Tipping v St Helens Smelting (1865): 'Anti-development' or 'sustainable development'?. Environmental Law and Management, 19(1), 7-18

An in-depth, micro contextual study of Tipping, looking at the law and the impact of its enforcement on the town and countryside at the centre of this leading nuisance action.

Silent spring in Britain today (2006)
Journal Article
Pontin, B. (2006). Silent spring in Britain today. Environmental Law and Management, 18(3), 99-102

A retrospective on attitudes to the environment, tracing modern attitudes back to the time of Britain's 'silent spring' which pre-dated, yet was overshadowed, by that in the US.

Displacing remedies from environmental to planning law: The enforcement of Part IIA Environmental Protection Act 1990 (2006)
Journal Article
Pontin, B., & Willmore, C. (2006). Displacing remedies from environmental to planning law: The enforcement of Part IIA Environmental Protection Act 1990

A analysis of the findings of fieldwork into the local authority enforcement of statutory inspection powers, highlighting the emphasis placed on solutions to contamination through planning legislation, rather than specialised environmental legislatio... Read More about Displacing remedies from environmental to planning law: The enforcement of Part IIA Environmental Protection Act 1990.

Nuisance law, regulation and the invention of clean technology
Book Chapter
Pontin, B. Nuisance law, regulation and the invention of clean technology. In R. Brownsword (Ed.), Oxford Handbook on Law and the Regulation of Technology. Oxford: Oxford University Press

An analysis of nuisance law and regulation as a driver of environmentally clean industrial technology