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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... Netherlands and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research , Ibadan , Nigeria . Jonathan R. Barton is Senior Research Associate at the School of Development Studies , University of East Anglia ...
... Netherlands) and Senior Advisor to TNO-STB. He has published extensively on the topic of environmental innovation and policy instruments. Hege M. Knutsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Human Geography of the University of ...
... Netherlands . Currently he is Research Associate of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology of the University of Tokyo . Andrés López is Principal Researcher in Centro de Investigaciones para la Transformación ( CENIT ) ...
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