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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... companies of partner associations are expected to com- mit to compliance with environmental regulations and to apply cleaner production principles in process and product design with the NCCP pro- viding technical assistance and audit ...
... companies that demonstrate the best improvement in environmental performance through adopting cleaner techniques (Hu 1998; Yang 1999). The strategy seems to work. It was with obvious pride that one company executive told us, ''The ...
... companies. It has signed research contracts with over 1,000 companies (Chung 2002). As part of EPA's promotion of inter-firm waste reuse and recycling programme, a Waste Exchange Information Centre provides information on waste stream ...
... on cleaner production and ISO 14001. Over four thousand companies, mostly SMEs, reportedly participate in these workshops annually. Influence of public policy on firm environmental innovation decisions In 40 NONITA YAP ET AL.