Further development of the Baden-Württemberg environmental administration

In the course of the administrative restructuring reform in 2005, the nine state industrial inspectorates, the four water management authorities and the four district offices for nature conservation and landscape protection in Baden-Württemberg were dissolved and their tasks transferred either to the regional councils or to the rural districts and urban districts. As early as 2007 (a) and again in 2011 (b), it became evident that this reform step had negatively impacted the quality of administrative action in specific areas. The objective of this study was, therefore, to provide an empirically valid situational analysis of the quality of enforcement in the domain of conventional environmental administration (Publication is in German.).