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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... 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 destination . Environmental management according to the origin of the 99 firm 99 3.8 ...
... investment , environmental and technology issues , mostly in relation to Latin America . John Devlin is Assistant Professor in the International Development Studies Program of St. Mary's University where he teaches development theory ...
... investment patterns. Rene ́ Kemp is Senior Fellow at UNU-MERIT (Maastricht, the Netherlands) and Senior Advisor to TNO-STB. He has published extensively on the topic of environmental innovation and policy instruments. Hege M. Knutsen is ...
... investment and development issues . Saeed Parto is Senior Researcher in Economic Governance at the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit ( Kabul , Afghanistan ) and visiting Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences ...
... investment Federal Environmental Protection Agency ( Nigeria ) Fundación de Investigaciones Latinoamericanas ( fund for Latin American economic research ) NACEC ( North American Commission for Environmental Co- operation ) fund for ...