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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... disease, it proved to be methyl mercury poisoning caused by ingestion of seafood caught in Minamata Bay and the neigh- bouring seas; hence it came to be called the Minamata disease (Tsubaki and Irukayama 1977). While it later became ...
... Minamata disease. Without any or- ganic substances involved in the relevant chemical reactions, there was no possibility for the formation of organic mercury within chlor-alkali plants. Nevertheless, in the presence of a significant ...
... Minamata - byo ' " ( ' The Third Min- amata Disease ' in the Ariake Sea ) , 22 May . Asahi Shinbun ( 1973b ) " Tokuyama - wan Engan , Jumin ni Minamata - byo no Uta- gai " ( An Allegation of the Minamata Disease in the Tokuyama Bay area ) ...
... Minamata Disease : Methyl- mercury poisoning in Minamata and Niigata , Japan , Tokyo : Kodansha . Tsurumi Soda ( 2001 ) “ Kaisha Enkaku ” ( Corporate Chronology ) . Yarime , Masaru ( 2003 ) “ From End - of - Pipe Technology to Clean ...