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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... Environmental management according to firms ' innovative capabilities 100 100 3.10 3.11 PP management according to firms ' innovative capabilities Firms ' environmental management according to sectoral technological contents 101 101 ...
... environment and development. His research focus is on comparative environmental and agricultural policy, the state and governance. Kevin P. Gallagher is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations, Boston University ...
... Environment Programme United Nations Industrial Development Organization United Nations University Institute on New Technologies United States-Asia Environmental Partnership Vuilafvoer Maatschappij (Netherlands association for waste ...
... environment and environmental protection has its roots in the period between 1965 and 1970. A series of highly pub- licized environmental accidents and persistent problems such as acid rain and surface- and groundwater contamination in ...
... environmental problems and toward interactive regulatory regimes and process - oriented regula- tions . Many business enterprises employed highly sophisticated tech- niques to manage their environmental impacts and undertook lobbying to ...