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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... Approaches Conference Board of Canada Commission for Environmental Cooperation Canadian Environmental Protection Act chlorofluorocarbon clean in place Canadian Labour Congress Dutch Environmental Advisory Board CONCAMIN CP CRTK CSIS CSS ...
... approaches the issue from a different perspective . It ex- amines the way in which environmental regulations interact with the characteristics of particular industrial sectors and firms in different socio - economic systems to influence ...
... approach to innovation recognizes irreversible and con- tinuing processes in time; long-run development rather than short-run marginal adjustments; variation and diversity as the fuel of all evolution- ary processes of selection; non ...
... approach to implementing environmental policy has also been innovative in its own right. One significant policy innovation is the promotion of voluntary initiatives such as ISO 14001 through regulatory and other measures, making Taiwan ...
... approach of the Canadian pulp and paper sec- tor to regulatory compliance to underline a needs - based , end - of - pipe ori- ented strategy of technology adoption rather than continual innovation in environmental management . This ...