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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... (World Bank 1995). Despite this background, little progress has been made in the environmental front where regulations are mostly of the command- and-control type and their enforcement is limited. According to the World Bank (1995) ...
... World Bank also highlighted the positive role of economic restructuring on the environmental performance of the Argen- tine industry . This positive role stemmed not only from measures aimed at improving the productive efficiency and ...
... World Bank study acknowledged that SMEs were less likely to regard the new economic regime as positive and less well placed in terms of access to capital , technology and markets to take advantage of the new opportunities . Chudnovsky ...