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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... costs to be incurred over and above the " nor- mal " production costs . Furthermore the report argued that environmen- tal regulations were not conducive to innovation because " the very na- ture of innovation is its unpredictability ...
... 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 systematically ( Jaffe and Palmer 1996 ) due to the ...
... cost minimization . Gallagher points out that Mexico's regulations on pollution prevention are modelled on the United ... costs of environmental damage and degradation are estimated at 10 % of the GDP from 1988 to 1999 , an amount that ...
... costs . This prompted the government to provide compensa- tion to the modified firms by financially penalizing the mercury process firms . The government objective of safeguarding public health and the in- dustry's concern about costs ...
... cost-gov/regs/cost/regulate/regulate.htm , accessed 15 Octo- ber 2005 . Kay , James J. ( 1991 ) “ A Nonequilibrium Thermodynamic Framework for Discus- sing Ecosystem Integrity " , Environmental Management , 15 ( 4 ) : 483–495 . ( 1994 ) ...