Integrated pollution control and the evolving style and structure of environmental regulation in the UK

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Abstract
A growing consensus of opinion now holds that pollution control arrangements will be successful only when they are more fully integrated. Integrated pollution control (IPC) is an attempt by administrators to develop institutional structures and operational modalities that take cognisance of the interconnected functioning of environmental systems. With the implementation of the Environmental Protection Act (1990), the UK government has started to introduce a form of IPC, although first indications suggest that it will operate in a rather different way from that first envisaged by the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, an august body which first mooted the idea of IPC in the 1970s. In fact, the overall process by which IPC has been introduced to the UK has been haphazard, incremental and protracted, and is still only partially completed. To understand the pace and direction of this process, it is necessary to place the nascent IPC regime within the context of both an evolving style of environmental regulation and ongoing changes in the structure of administrative arrangements for pollution control in the UK.