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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 8
... eco - efficiency " . The key idea is to shift from a " corrective " approach ... efficient treatment of the environmental problems but , according to some of ... eco 81 3 Environmental management and innovative capabilities in Argentine ...
... eco - efficient technologies may not only be less costly than EOP treatment but also , in some cases , may generate additional monetary benefits . Furthermore , firms may find ways to transform environmental actions into opportunities ...
... eco-efficient measures would take place in larger , export oriented , ARGENTINE INDUSTRY'S EM LEARNING PROCESS 83.
... eco - efficient . approach , the traditional viewpoint on the relationship between environ- mental protection and private costs is based on a static way of thinking in which technology and customer needs are all considered as given ...
... eco - efficient measures vis - à - vis conventional solutions , such as end - of - pipe , 4,5 are unanimously underlined . Compared with the conventional treatment , pollution prevention and recycling in- vestments are often more cost ...