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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... Lansink and René Kemp 10 Integrating environmental and innovation policies René Kemp 258 11 Conclusion ... .. Index Brent Herbert - Copley and Saeed Parto 285 297 List of tables and figures Tables I.1 Types of institution vi CONTENTS.
... integrating environmental and innovation policymaking pro- cesses. The view adopted in compiling this volume is that the regulation- environmental innovation nexus can be more comprehensively investi- gated through understanding the ...
... integration of industrial development and environmental protection. The Taiwanese government has managed to create the demand for environmental innovation while providing support for the industry through dissemination of research and ...
... integration has not re- sulted in technological innovation , or improvements in environmental protection , as had been hoped . In fact , like most developing countries Mexico prioritized economic integration and growth at the expense of ...
... integrate the objectives of the two pol- icies. Innovation policy can be more explicitly directed toward environ- mental protection by providing support for R&D in the development of environmental technologies, e.g., fuel cells as an ...