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Record W4238910475 · doi:10.1139/l00-062

Choosing a "best" Canadian environmental management strategy

2001· article· en· W4238910475 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Isobel W. Heathcote

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Civil Engineering · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicEnvironmental and Social Impact Assessments
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCommand and controlIncentiveControl (management)Environmental lawEnvironmental complianceBusinessRisk analysis (engineering)Pollution preventionResource (disambiguation)Environmental management systemEnvironmental pollutionEnvironmental economicsComputer scienceEngineeringEconomicsLawPolitical scienceEnvironmental protectionManagement

Abstract

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All human societies have laws, which may be written or unwritten. Those laws, and the mechanisms to enforce them, evolve as internal and external forces shape the society. Modern environmental regulatory frameworks are a complex mixture of traditional behavioural rules and newer benchmarks of environmental performance. Gradually, we have come to value the rules themselves above the goals they are intended to achieve. In fact, environmental improvement can be achieved in many ways, not just through traditional regulatory approaches. Traditional "command-and-control" regulation provides a useful backstop but is limited in its ability to encourage innovation. Newer approaches, including economic instruments, voluntary clean-up, and recognition programs, offer the means to encourage prevention, protection, and conservation, rather than resource wastage and reliance on end-of-pipe technology. A combination of command-and-control programs for minimum limits, coupled with economic incentives and voluntary compliance schemes for enhanced protection, may be the only viable environmental management strategy for the 21st century.Key words: environmental management, environmental law, pollution prevention, economic instruments, voluntary, compliance.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.102
Threshold uncertainty score0.738

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0060.005
Science and technology studies0.0150.003
Scholarly communication0.0090.003
Open science0.0030.004
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.195
Teacher spread0.187 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2001
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