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Descriptor English: Polluter-Pays Principle
Descriptor Spanish: Principio Contaminador-Pagador
Descriptor principio contaminador-pagador
Entry term(s) principio de pago comunitario
principio de quién contamina paga
quién contamina paga
Descriptor Portuguese: Princípio do Poluidor-Pagador
Descriptor French: Principe du Pollueur-Payeur
Entry term(s): Community-Pays Principle
Environmental Liability
Polluter Pays
Polluter-Pays Criterion
Tree number(s): SP4.707.368.360.689
Scope note: Principle that advocates that the costs arising from the prevention of pollution and control of the use of natural resources, as well as the costs of repairing unavoided environmental damage ("pollution costs"), be fully borne by the driver of the potentially or effectively degrading economic activity, which, therefore, will internalize the costs of pollution instead of externalizing them to the State and, consequently, to society. (Freely tanslated from: https://enciclopediajuridica.pucsp.br/verbete/334/edicao-1/principio-do-poluidor-pagador)
Allowable Qualifiers: EC economics
ES ethics
Related: Environmental Economics DeCS
Environmental Misconduct DeCS
Environmental Monitoring MeSH
Legislation, Environmental DeCS
Penalties for Environmental Damages DeCS
DeCS ID: 51700
Unique ID: DDCS051700
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Polluter-Pays Principle - Preferred
Concept UI FD00061837
Scope note Principle that advocates that the costs arising from the prevention of pollution and control of the use of natural resources, as well as the costs of repairing unavoided environmental damage ("pollution costs"), be fully borne by the driver of the potentially or effectively degrading economic activity, which, therefore, will internalize the costs of pollution instead of externalizing them to the State and, consequently, to society. (Freely tanslated from: https://enciclopediajuridica.pucsp.br/verbete/334/edicao-1/principio-do-poluidor-pagador)
Preferred term Polluter-Pays Principle
Entry term(s) Community-Pays Principle
Environmental Liability
Polluter Pays
Polluter-Pays Criterion



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