Scotland's Environmental Laws Since Devolution - From Rhetoric To Reality
Scottish Environment LINK commissioned a review of eight pieces of environmental legislation, to ascertain whether the outcomes in practice match up to the expectations at the time when the legislation was drawn up. This time-limited review is based on the views and experiences of LINK members and others involved in implementing the legislation. Interviews were carried out with LINK members across a range of sectors, with government bodies tasked with delivery of the legislation, and with third party observers. Rather than investigating how each of the provisions is being applied in detail, this review seeks to highlight some of the successes and to identify some of the problems experienced with implementation of the legislation to date, in order that these may be addressed in the future.
