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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... emissions permits . Policy makers in the environmental or inno- vation fields thus have little basis on which to assess the likely influence of regulation on the innovation process in particular firms and industries . This volume ...
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... emission release and / or dumping as solid waste . A second option is to use end - of - pipe approaches to treat the waste ... emissions and wastes . Applied to products , a cleaner production strategy focuses on the reduction of the ...
... emissions , liquid effluents , and hazardous waste disposal . It also plays an active and complementary role in the Ministry of Economic Affairs ( MOEA ) , through the Industrial Develop- ment Bureau ( IDB ) and its mandate for ...
... emission limits may be more stringent than those set by central agency . Industries submit a Water Pollution Control Plan prior to operation . Aims to " prevent damage " of pesticides , pollution control chemicals and microbial ...