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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... competitiveness in pollution-intensive industries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Jonathan R. Barton, Rhys Jenkins, Anthony Bartzokas, Jan Hesselberg and Hege M. Knutsen 3 Environmental ...
... competitiveness by encouraging innovation in environmental technologies. This could be particularly the case if environmental regulations are products of interactive and systemsbased policy thinking and policymaking. Whether ...
... responses to these problems and the impact of environmental regulation on the competitiveness of each sector. The starting point in this analysis comprises the southward move of the most polluting segments. INTRODUCTION 13.
... competitiveness of those industries in industrialized European countries, and the increased competitiveness of those same industries in less industrialized countries. The study by Chudnovsky and Lo ́pez (chapter 3) focuses on the ...
... competitiveness relationship'', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9(4): 97–118. Reinstaller, Andreas and Rene ́ Kemp (2000) ''Consumption dynamics in a world of technological regimes. Consumer-driven technical change: Theoretical ...