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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... of particular firms and industries in Argentina , Taiwan , Nigeria , Japan and Canada . UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY UNU - MERIT IDRC CRDI Industrial innovation and environmental regulation : Developing workable solutions Edited.
... Nigerian manufacturing industry . 156 John O. Adeoti 7 Innovation on clean technology through environmental policy : Emergence of the ion exchange membrane process in the Japanese chlor - alkali industry 174 Masaru Yarime 8 ...
... 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 . He has done extensive work on industry and ...
... ( Nigeria ) foreign direct investment Federal Environmental Protection Agency ( Nigeria ) Fundación de Investigaciones Latinoamericanas ( fund for Latin American economic research ) NACEC ( North American Commission for Environmental Co ...
... Nigeria Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan) multinational corporation Ministry of Economic Affairs (Taiwan) INEGI INPO ISI ISTC ITRI IWM JEC JIT JPEC LCD LNV LPFO MAN MITI MNC MOEA NACEC NAFTA NCCP NGO NIDO NIS NISER ...