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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... Energy and fuel intensity in North American manufacturing . 146 6.1 Rating of most important pollution issues 162 6.2 Case study profiles ... 163 6.3 Adoption of pollution prevention innovation according to time and sectoral ...
... energy prices put additional pressures on converted plants leading to additional production costs . This prompted the government to provide compensa- tion to the modified firms by financially penalizing the mercury process firms . The ...
... energy, mobility and agriculture. To make a case for transition management, Kemp examines and compares the German BMBF (Bundesministerium fu ̈r Bildung und Forschung – German ministry for education and research), the Dutch DTO (Defensie ...
... energy supply ” , Inter- national Centre for Integrative Studies , Maastricht , The Netherlands . ( 2001 ) “ More evolution than revolution : Transition management in public policy " , The Journal of Futures Studies , Strategic Thinking ...
... energy , eliminating toxic raw materials , and reducing the quantity and toxicity of all emissions and wastes . Applied to products , a cleaner production strategy focuses on the reduction of the environmental im- pacts during the ...