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 regulation. Jonathan R. Barton , Rhys Jenkins , Anthony Bartzokas , Jan Hesselberg and Hege M. Knutsen 3 Environmental management and innovative capabilities in Argentine industry Daniel Chudnovsky and Andrés López 81 has ...
... environmental expenditures in Argentina 1994- 2001 ... 93 3.2 Surveyed firms ' sectoral distribution 96 3.3 Surveyed firms ' sizes 98 3.4 Environmental investments 1993–1997 98 3.5 Firms ' environmental management according to market ...
... 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 ...
... environmental behaviour Transitions in the Dutch waste management subsystem 224 236 9.2 Decoupling of GDP and waste generation 240 9.3 Waste generation levels since 1985 . 241 10.1 The additionality of the German environmental ...
... environmental management, the political economy of industrial and trade policymaking and the creation of innovative support services for SMEs. Jan Hesselberg is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oslo. His research ...