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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... regulation. He currently holds Professorial Research appointments in the Regulatory Institutions Network, Research School of Social Sciences, and in the School of Resources, Environment and Society, at the Australian National University ...
... regulation on the innovation process in particular firms and industries . This volume approaches the issue from a different perspective . It ex- amines the way in which environmental regulations interact with the characteristics of ...
... regulations to deal with acute environmental problems and toward interactive regulatory regimes and process - oriented regula- tions . Many business enterprises employed highly sophisticated tech- niques to manage their environmental ...
... regulation and innova- tion is concerned , three overlapping features of the Porter hypothesis are worth highlighting . First , the hypothesis emphasizes outcomes and not processes and thus excludes process innovation . Second , regulations ...
... regulatory reform , regulatory regime change , structural transformation and ecological modernization . For the most part the new vocabulary was more reflective of the polit- ical implications of environmental protection and ...