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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... case studies 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.
... Taiwan ............... Nonita T. Yap , John Devlin , Chih Chao Wu and Shanshin Ton 2 Environmental regulation and industrial competitiveness in pollution - intensive industries vii X xiii xvii 1 22 51 4 To the limits ... and beyond ...
... Taiwan . Dr Wu's research is focused on environmental engineering . Nonita T. Yap is Professor at the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph ( Canada ) . Her research includes the role of ...
... ( Taiwan ) Environmental Protection Agency ( USA ) European Union Ministry of Economic Affairs ( Netherlands ) UN Food and Agriculture Organization Federal Capital Territory ( Nigeria ) foreign direct investment Federal Environmental ...
... (Taiwan) industrial waste minimization Joint Economic Committee (USA) just in time NACEC's Joint Public Advisory Committee liquid crystal display Ministry of Agriculture (Netherlands) low pour fuel oil Manufacturing Association of ...