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 problems. Support is directed toward developing an indigenous research capacity to sustain policies and technologies developing countries need to build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies. IDRC pub ...
... 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 ...
... technologies , encouraging the development of new technological solutions or ... environmental regulation and innovation . This is true in both developing ... environmental or inno- vation fields thus have little basis on which to assess ...
... environmental regulation as a key fea- ture of industrial policy can increase firm competitiveness by encouraging innovation in environmental technologies . This could be particularly the case if environmental regulations are products ...
... environmental awareness among economic actors , the pro- liferation of new or adapted technologies to address environmental prob- lems , and reduced materials use combined with evolving environmental regulations constitute " ecological ...