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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... pulp and paper industry .. Brent Herbert - Copley 115 5 Toward a theory of innovation and industrial pollution : Evidence from Mexican manufacturing 138 Kevin P. Gallagher 6 Environmental policy , innovation and third - party factors in ...
... pulp and paper mills .... 128 4A.1 Determinants of environmental behaviour and performance ......... . 134 4A.2 Determinants of environmental behaviour and performance 135 5.1 Pollution intensity for SOx in Mexico and the United States ...
... Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada polychlorinated biphenyl polyethylene terephthalate pollution prevention Pulp and Paper Modernization Program particulate matter polyvinyl chloride R&D research and development Rijksinstituut ...
... pulp and paper industry. The case studies in this volume illustrate the need to adopt a non-linear perspective on the evo- lution of environmental regulatory change and environmental innova- tion. To attend to this need we utilize the ...
... pulp and paper indus- try where high levels of chlorine in wastewater discharge from pulp and paper mills acted as the main trigger for the technological transition that ensued ( Reinstaller and Kemp 2000 ; Herbert - Copley , this ...