• DOI:10.1080/09640568.2019.1670627
Corpus ID: 211331149

Best practices for implementing federal environmental policies: a principal-agent perspective

@article{Fowler2020BestPF,
  title={Best practices for implementing federal environmental policies: a principal-agent perspective},
  author={L. Fowler},
  journal={Journal of Environmental Planning and Management},
  year={2020},
  volume={63},
  pages={1453 - 1469}
}

L. Fowler

Published 2020

Business

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

In the US, federal environmental policies tend to be implemented by subnational agencies through intergovernmental management systems, which results in state governments serving as agents of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Therefore, principal-agent dynamics create a key challenge for implementing federal environmental policies, as goal incongruence and information asymmetries lead to conflict. As such, we argue some best practices are those that mitigate principal-agent problems by… CONTINUE READING

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