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Prescriptive regulation

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-021980

A policy that stipulates how much pollution an individual source or plant is allowed to emit and/or what types of control equipment or approaches it must use to reduce pollution. Prescriptive regulations are also known as "direct regulatory instruments" or "command-and-control" regulations.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-021980
FieldEnvironment
SubjectGeneral environmental
ReferencesPreparing Economic Analyses Glossary
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-021980",
  "term": "Prescriptive regulation",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "A policy that stipulates how much pollution an individual source or plant is allowed to emit and/or what types of control equipment or approaches it must use to reduce pollution. Prescriptive regulations are also known as \"direct regulatory instruments\" or \"command-and-control\" regulations.",
  "subject": "General environmental",
  "references": [
    "Preparing Economic Analyses Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/prescriptive-regulation/"
}

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