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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... reduced iron Defensie Telematica Organisatie ( Dutch sustainable technol- ogy development programme ) electric arc furnace elemental chlorine - free European Economic Community environmental Kuznets curve European Eco - management and ...
... reduced materials use combined with evolving environmental regulations constitute " ecological modernization " of industrial activity ( see Mol and Sonnenfeld 2000 ; Murphy 2000 ) 5 while others have used the term “ transition " ( see ...
... reduce pollution but also improve productivity through efficiencies in resource use . Herbert - Copley ( chapter 4 ) examines the response by the Canadian pulp and paper industry to new , stringent environmental regulations in- troduced ...
... reduce the environmental impacts of a manufac- turing process or product and not for commercialization purposes ( Beise and Rennings 2003 ) . These innovations are therefore not always appar- ent to external observers . To study ...
... reduce risks to hu- mans and the environment " ( UNEP 1994 ) . Applied to production pro- cesses , cleaner production is concerned with conserving raw materials and energy , eliminating toxic raw materials , and reducing the quantity ...