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 behaviour and performance ......... . 134 4A.2 Determinants of environmental behaviour and performance 135 5.1 Pollution intensity for SOx in Mexico and the United States .... 145 5.2 Energy and fuel intensity in North ...
... environmental regulations represent a signif- icant factor in shaping the environmental behaviour and economic performance of industrial firms and in setting the parameters that deter- mine the environmental sustainability of the ...
... environmental benefits as various sectors needed to modernize in order to remain competitive. The need for moderniza- tion led many firms to adopt technologies with superior environmental performance. A similar point is made by Herbert ...
... performance- and process - based stan- dards , and regulatory flexibility against empirical findings from a study of the pulp and paper sector in multiple national settings . Parto et al . ( chapter 9 ) begin with a brief overview of ...
... environment and improved economic performance . Notes 1. See , for example , Gibson , R. B. ( 1999 ) . Voluntary Initiatives : The new politics of corpo- rate greening ( Peterborough , Ont .: Broadview Press ) . 2. See , for example ...