Industrial Innovation and Environmental Regulation: Developing Workable SolutionsIDRC, 2007 - 305 pages What role should governments play in protecting the environment and controlling the environmental impacts of industry? Do regulations benefit the environment? And how do they affect industrial innovation? Since the early 1970s, regulations have been used to coerce producers of goods and services into internalizing the environmental costs of production. These efforts have often faced opposition on practical and ideological grounds. Beginning in the 1980s, there has been a movement toward liberalization, coupled with the continued failure of the market to protect the environment as a public good. As a result, private and public sector interests have been debating the appropriate role of governments in protecting and improving the environment and controlling the environmental impact of industry. Using case studies from numerous countries, this book examines political and industrial trends and the responses to these challenges. The authors conclude that the complexities of environmental and economic relationships disallow universal solutions, and they stress the need for context-specific perspectives on the role of regulatory measures in environmental innovation. |
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... Mexican manufacturing 138 Kevin P. Gallagher 6 Environmental policy , innovation and third - party factors in the Nigerian manufacturing industry . 156 John O. Adeoti 7 Innovation on clean technology through environmental policy ...
... Mexican small- and medium - sized enterprises Fundación Mexicana para la Innovacíon y Transferencia de Tecnología en la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa ( Mexican fund for technology transfer in small- and medium - sized enterprises ) General ...
... Mexican exports . However , the integration has been accompanied by lower than average GDP growth and less than 1 % annual per capita income growth since 1985 . In the early days of NAFTA , an assumption by many environmental- ists was ...
... Mexican factories. They found that environmental performance is mainly determined by regula- tory pressures, implementation of ISO 14000 standards and provision of general environmental education for plant employees. In Venezuela, Otero ...
... Mexican industry ” , Journal of Environmental Eco- nomics and Management 39 : 39–66 . Ferraz , C. , A. P. Zwane , R. S. da Motta and T. Panayotou ( 2002 ) " How do firms make environmental investment decisions ? Evidence from Brazil ...