What explains SECA compliance: rational calculation or moral judgment?
Johanna Yliskylä-Peuralahti; Sari Repka; Anu Lähteenmäki-Uutela; Johan Mellqvist
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042821288
Tiivistelmä
We explain the Sulphur Emission Control Area (SECA) compliance through
analyzing both rational and moral factors for compliance motivation. According
to preliminary analysis based on samples and measurements, the compliance
rate for SECA is rather good and air quality has improved significantly. As
costs of compliance are rather high and penalties for non-compliance rather low
for regulation targets, moral motivation factors must be relevant for compliance.
Maintaining good relationships with control authorities and peers requires
shipowners to comply with the rules for practical and moral legitimacy. Our
interviews with Danish, Finnish and Estonian shipowners confirmed that most
of them follow the law simply because it is the law, this applying both to
current Baltic Sea SECA rules and the future global sulphur emission rules.
Obeying environmental law thus has a taken-for-granted status among shipping
companies. Almost half of the companies specifically mentioned they follow
the SECA rules because they want to take care of the environment, thus having
internalized the regulatory content. Some companies see global compliance to
depend on efficient controls.
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