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2.1Challenges to addressing cumulative environmental problems and implications for regulatory responses
4.1Varying matters of concern and implications for the challenges of conceptualization: illustrative examples
4.2Mechanisms for clearly specifying a matter of concern, including in a precautionary way
4.3Mechanisms for specifying boundaries of a matter of concern
4.4Mechanisms for formulating cumulative threshold conditions for a matter of concern, and the role of time
5.1Mechanisms to fulfill information needs for addressing cumulative environmental problems
5.2Mechanisms to promote high-quality data and information for addressing cumulative environmental problems
5.3Mechanisms to share and reduce costs related to information
6.1Options for increasing diversity of regulatory interventions: four strategies and four approaches to address cumulative environmental problems, with characteristics and examples
6.2Mechanisms for connected decision-making about cumulative environmental impacts
6.3Mechanisms for comprehensive regulatory intervention: avoiding gaps by omission
6.4Burden-reducing alternatives to exemptions to increase regulatory comprehensiveness, in order of most to least similar to the “regular” intervention applied to nonexempt activities
6.5Mechanisms for considering cumulative environmental impacts in enforcement
6.6Mechanisms for reducing administrative costs by applying a single decision to multiple sources of impact
6.7Mechanisms that facilitate adapting a decision in response to cumulative impacts
6.8Mechanisms that facilitate adapting a set of rules in response to cumulative impacts
7.1Mechanisms for coordination to conceptualize cumulative environmental problems
7.2Mechanisms for coordinated information initiatives to address cumulative environmental problems
7.3Mechanisms to recognize regulatory inconsistency and promote synergies in coordinating interventions to address cumulative environmental problems
7.4Mechanisms to address drift, implementation gaps and disputes in coordinated interventions for cumulative environmental problems
8.1Conceptualizing groundwater (GW) levels and disadvantaged communities as a matter of concern under California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA)
9.1Major Australian federal (A) and Queensland (Q) regulatory interventions to address Reef-impacting greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and water-borne sediment pollution (H2O) from coal mines and cattle grazing, showing influences of the Reef SEA
10.1Regulatory interventions at international (INT), European (EU), Italian national (IT), and Autonomous Province of Bolzano-South Tyrol (ST) levels related to Alpine grasslands, and their regulatory approaches and strategies
11.1Definitions and risks of rules omitting a CIRCle Framework function
11.2Key elements of case studies selected for diversity of legal mechanisms and environmental contexts
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