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 innovation and public policy : Case studies from Taiwan ............... Nonita T. Yap , John Devlin , Chih Chao Wu and Shanshin Ton 2 Environmental regulation and industrial competitiveness in pollution - intensive ...
... 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 ...
... environmental and innovation policymaking pro- cesses. The view adopted in compiling this volume is that the regulation- environmental innovation nexus can be more comprehensively investi- gated through understanding the formal and ...
... environmental awareness that began in the 1960s culminated in a series of national and international fo- rums on the links between economic development and the environment and the importance of environmental protection at a global scale ...
... environmental regulation and innova- tion is concerned , three overlapping features of the Porter hypothesis are worth highlighting . First , the hypothesis emphasizes outcomes and not processes and thus excludes process innovation ...