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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... plants adopting the diaphragm process in Japan 191 8.1 9.1 License model of corporate environmental behaviour Transitions in the Dutch waste management subsystem 224 236 9.2 Decoupling of GDP and waste generation 240 9.3 Waste ...
... plants leading to additional production costs . This prompted the government to provide compensa- tion to the modified firms by financially penalizing the mercury process firms . The government objective of safeguarding public health ...
... plants , one food processor , and one electrical equipment manufacturer . Because of the significant wastes ... plant management and technical personnel in- terviewed . Interviews were also conducted with twenty key informants. Figure 1.1 ...
... plant of a multinational corporation . The manager asserts that the plant has no R & D capacity and hence process ... plants in the region . It gives monetary awards for good participation in the CP programme . The firm received the ...
... plant manufactures liquid crystal displays ( LCDs ) , 70 % of which are exported to Hong Kong , Japan , Korea and Germany . Produc- tion waste such as glass is sent to a recycler . The wastes generated in sig- nificant quantities in ...