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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... Preventive projects " results according to firms ' environmental management level ... Pollution intensity for SOx in Mexico and the United States .... 145 5.2 ... prevention innovation according to time and sectoral distribution of ...
... pollution-intensive industries from a North/South perspective. Rhys Jenkins is Reader in Economics at the School of ... prevention and re-use of waste, was adopted by the Dutch Parliament in 1979. Derk Loorbach is a Researcher for the ...
... Pollution Prevention Demonstration Project Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung ( German Minis- try for ... Control of Major Accident Hazards ( European Union ) El Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología ( Mexico's na- tional ...
... ( pollution prevention ) community right to know Center for Strategic and International Studies ( USA ) corporate synergy system chemo - thermo - mechanical pulping Canadian Trade Office in Taipei direct reduced iron Defensie Telematica ...
... Pollution Control Authority National Secretariat of Science and Technology Perspectievennota Verkeer en Vervoer (new ... prevention Pulp and Paper Modernization Program particulate matter polyvinyl chloride R&D research and development ...