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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... compliance and profit maximization . The economic costs and regula- tory ramifications of these outcomes have important implications for in- novation policy . However , these features of the hypothesis are difficult to investigate ...
... compliance to underline a needs - based , end - of - pipe ori- ented strategy of technology adoption rather than continual innovation in environmental management . This reactive approach is also the point of departure for the second ...
... compliance to stringent regulations and to innovate in environmental protection is the main theme of Yarime's analysis ( chapter 7 ) . Yarime examines the co - evolution of the Japanese chlor- alkali industry and its regulatory arena ...
... compliance . What leaves the plant as a pollutant starts within as a workplace hazard . CP thus im- proves the social bottom line by improving workplace health and safety ( Bennett 2004 ; Canadian Labour Congress [ CLC ] 1998 ) . - As ...
... compliance purposes, the owner-manager indicated that he had no intention of going beyond compliance since ''my son is not interested in taking over the plant, the young people don't want to work in this kind of operation. They want to ...