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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... activities are devoted to advancing knowledge for human security and development and are focused on issues of peace and governance and environment and sustainable development. The Univer- sity operates through a worldwide network of ...
... activities , 1998–2001 Obstacles to improving firms ' environmental management , 1998-2001 .... 104 105 106 106 4.1 Regulatory standards in Canadian and other jurisdictions , ca. 1996 .... 119 4.2 Canada's share of world exports , by ...
... activities of individuals and groups as reflections of social norms Cognitive Institutions : Institutions as mental models and constructs or definitions based on values and embedded in culture Associative Institutions : Institutions as ...
... activities by Argentinean firms . The findings from two sur- veys conducted by the authors are combined with information from sec- ondary sources to test Porter and van der Linde's ( 1995 ) hypothesis of higher environmental standards ...
... activities around Tao Yuan County forced the gov- ernment to ban agricultural activity in the region . Pollution from pulp mill operations resulted in a government freeze on construction of new pulp mills ( Cheung 1995 ) . Perhaps not ...