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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... ment of steering the behaviour of economic agents in industrial produc- tion . The purpose of environmental regulation has been to coerce pro- ducers of goods and services into internalizing environmental costs of production . These ...
... ment of complex systems. Analysing transitions with the intent to identify the causal chain and thus the steering opportunities from a policy perspective requires adopt- ing an evolutionary perspective and a focus on what the INTRODUCTION ...
... ment in the Netherlands ( see Parto et al . , this volume ) . In this case two transitions seem to have occurred since around 1900. The first transition signalled a move from unregulated handling of waste to centralized sys- tems of ...
... ment ) of this view of institutions is that to facilitate transitions policy- makers need to know what degree of control may be exercised over spe- cific key factors , given the institutional context . To identify and to take advantage ...
... ment of mutual learning – having yielded the highest environmental benefits – followed by the German programme. The Dutch programme was successful in yielding environmental innovation but had little impact on policy learning. Drawing on ...