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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... factors in the Nigerian manufacturing industry . 156 John O. Adeoti 7 Innovation on clean technology through environmental policy : Emergence of the ion exchange membrane process in the Japanese chlor - alkali industry 174 Masaru Yarime ...
... sectoral distribution of adoption 164 6.4 Summary of third party factors 170 9.1 Institutions of the Dutch waste management subsystem , 1970 - present 244 9.2 9.3 Increase in total waste produced , 1985-2000 Dutch viii TABLES AND FIGURES.
... 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 economic system . 4 As far as the interplay between ...
... factors. Analysing transitions and the emergence of environmental innovations requires in-depth knowledge of the endogenous and exogenous factors and the institutionalization processes that they may have set in motion. Stability at the ...
... factors ( such as the integrity of the ecological system ) to be considered in economic policy- making and political discourse with significant ramifications for the socio- economic , political and cultural spheres . A second example is ...