Turning Up the Restorative Dial in Environmental Regulation with an Adaptive Learning Loop

Miranda Forsyth*

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    Abstract

    This chapter is concerned with identifying how Environmental Restorative Justice can be used as a practical tool by environmental regulators to make their regulatory practice more restorative. Forsyth explores the ways in which restorative justice can be imagined, valued and practised to respond to and prevent environmental harms through employing the Adaptive Learning Loop framework. Drawing upon concrete examples based on long term fieldwork with an environmental regulator in Australia, Forsyth provides examples, information and explanations of restorative approaches to support regulators wishing to improve their regulatory practice. She focuses on three domains on regulation, in particular: (1) approvals and licensing; (2) inspections; and (3) responding to environmental harm. Frequently these domains of regulation are relatively small-scale, and each individual regulatory action viewed independently may not be of significance. Yet, the chapter’s normative argument is that ‘turning up the restorative dial’—that is, incrementally increasing the restorative dimensions—of regulatory actions across multiple individual regulatory actions, no matter how minor, may have a powerful cumulative effect.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationThe Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Restorative Justice
    PublisherSpringer International Publishing Switzerland
    Pages147-169
    Number of pages23
    ISBN (Electronic)9783031042232
    ISBN (Print)9783031042225
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2022

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