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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... chlor - alkali industry 174 Masaru Yarime 8 Reconfiguring environmental regulation : Next - generation policy instruments .... 200 Neil Gunningham 9 Transitions and institutional change : The case of the Dutch waste subsystem ...
... chlor - alkali industry 189 7.5 Operating period of chlor - alkali plants adopting the diaphragm process in Japan 191 8.1 9.1 License model of corporate environmental behaviour Transitions in the Dutch waste management subsystem 224 236 ...
... chlor - alkali industry ( Yarime , this volume ) can be under- stood in terms of changes in the behaviour of agents as well as changes in the structure of the political economy . One may thus underline changes in the perception of an ...
... chlor- alkali industry and its regulatory arena since the 1950s . The Japanese government introduced stringent environmental regulations in the 1970s to stop the mercury contamination traced to the chlor - alkali industry . In a top ...
... chlor-alkali industry Masaru Yarime Responding to the serious concern with regard to the contamination of air, water and soil with pollutants such as non-degradable toxic metals, policymakers around the world have been introducing ...