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 issues were viewed as secondary to eco- nomic development and technological progress. A polluted river or lake or ravaged countryside was a sign of progress and prosperity. The full ex- tent of the negative impacts of ...
... 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 ...
... environmental impacts of a manufac- turing process or product and not for commercialization purposes ( Beise and Rennings 2003 ) . These innovations are therefore not always appar- ent to external observers . To study environmental ...
... environmental impacts. We are getting an award for environmental performance from the Ministry of Economic Affairs'' (Chen, H. Y., inter- view, 23 July 1999). The progress reported on other voluntary environmental programmes suggests a ...
... environmental and resource use impacts of its operations ; ( b ) encourage advocacy groups on " brown " environmental issues ; and , ( c ) " nudge ” industries to examine and take advantage of symbiotic rela- tionships among different ...