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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... policymaking and the creation of innovative support services for SMEs. Jan Hesselberg is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oslo. His research includes rural production processes and levels of living (Botswana and Sri ...
... regulations fit into an overall innovation system , complete with context - specific institutional landscapes . This volume explores the scope for integrating environmental and innovation policymaking pro- cesses. The xvii Preface.
... 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 formal and informal institutions that govern ...
... policymaking . Whether environmental regula- tion leads to more or less innovative activity remains a contested issue among commentators from government , industry and academia , how- ever.1 There are numerous case studies in support ...
... policy- making . The move toward liberalization coupled with the continued fail- ure of the market to protect the environment as a public good resulted in a dialogue involving the private and public interests on the role of governments ...