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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... Mexico and the United States .... 145 5.2 Energy and fuel intensity in North American manufacturing . 146 6.1 Rating of most important pollution issues 162 6.2 Case study profiles ... 163 6.3 Adoption of pollution prevention innovation ...
... CSS CTMP СТОТ DRI DTO EAF. COMAH CONACYT chemical oxygen demand Control of Major Accident Hazards ( European Union ) El Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología ( Mexico's na- tional council for science and technology ) xiii List of ...
... ( Canada ) Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos ( Argentinean na- tional institute for statistics and censuses ) National Institute for Statistics, Geography and Information Systems (Mexico) Association xiv ACRONYMS.
... (Mexico) Association of Nuclear Power Producers (USA) Fraunhofer-Institut fu ̈r Systemtechnik und Innovationsfor- schung (Germany) Industry, Science and Technology Canada Industrial Technology Research Institute (Taiwan) industrial waste ...
... a result of adopting environmental technologies to address compliance issues . Gallagher's chapter ( 5 ) provides a retrospective account of the events in Mexico since the first liberalization policies were introduced in 14 SAEED PARTO.