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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... Industrial Innovation and Environmental Regulation DEVELOPING WORKABLE SOLUTIONS Edited by Saeed Parto and Brent Herbert - Copley The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is a Crown corporation. Front Cover.
... corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970 to help re- searchers and communities in the developing world find solutions to their social, economic, and environmental problems. Support is directed toward developing an ...
... Corporate environmental innovation and public policy : Case studies from Taiwan ............... Nonita T. Yap , John Devlin , Chih Chao Wu and Shanshin Ton 2 Environmental regulation and industrial competitiveness in pollution ...
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... corporations in developing countries, impact of trade liberalization on local production, and environmental ... corporate social responsibility. Ad Lansink holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands ...