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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... important pollution issues 162 6.2 Case study profiles ... 163 6.3 Adoption of pollution prevention innovation according to time and sectoral distribution of adoption 164 6.4 Summary of third party factors 170 9.1 Institutions of the ...
... importance of environmental protection at a global scale. There was increasing recognition that the unprecedented environmental prob- lems of the time had been caused by accumulated pollution from inten- sive industrial activity over ...
... important implications for in- novation policy . However , these features of the hypothesis are difficult to investigate systematically ( Jaffe and Palmer 1996 ) due to the inadequa- cies of the available data and are perhaps best ...
... important caveat in our conceptualization is that we adopt a wide definition of inno- vation to include novelty not only in products and processes but also in policymaking styles. A. systems-based. view. of. transitions. A transition is a ...
... important feature of managing transitions is the development of al- ternative technologies and alternative ways of instituting technology.10 It is worth pointing out that Polanyi ( 1957 ) placed great emphasis on the links between ...