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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... 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 orientation 99 3.6 3.7 Adoption of PP practices according to market ...
... firm ...... . 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 ...
... firms and industries . This volume approaches the issue from a different perspective . It ex- amines the way in which environmental regulations interact with the characteristics of particular industrial sectors and firms in different ...
... firms were concerned , environmental regulations were no different from taxes as they were both costs to be incurred over and above the " nor- mal " production costs . Furthermore the report argued that environmen- tal regulations were ...
... firms since the potential economic advantages of cleaner production are viewed as providing sufficient motivation for firms to clean up and potentially innovate to protect the environment.3 Regard- less of orientation , all the ...