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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... SMEs ' sectoral distribution 103 104 3.18 Surveyed SMEs ' sizes .... 104 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 Environmental management in SMEs and large firms Diffusion of PP practices in SMEs and large firms Environmental management activities , 1998 ...
... SMEs. Jan Hesselberg is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oslo. His research includes rural production processes and levels of living (Botswana and Sri Lanka), poverty and slums in the large cities in the South, and ...
... en Milieu (Dutch national institute for public health and the environment) sequence batch reactor Stichting Centraal Bureau Levensmiddelenhandel (Dutch foun- dation of food retailers) SMEs SVM TAPs TCF TCPS TMP TNC TQC TQM TRI ACRONYMS xv.
... SMEs SVM TAPs TCF TCPS TMP TNC TQC TQM TRI TSS UABR UNEP UNIDO US-AEP VAM VROM VVAV WBCSD WIR UNU-INTECH WTO small and medium-sized enterprises Stichting Verpakking and Milieu (Dutch foundation of packag- ing and the environment) ...
... SMEs , four small- and medium - sized establish- ments located outside industrial parks or an export - processing zone were also included.3 The firms were selected based on the following criteria : economic importance , hazard or volume ...