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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... response to exogenous economic fac- tors but yielded direct environmental benefits as various sectors needed to modernize in order to remain competitive. The need for moderniza- tion led many firms to adopt technologies with superior ...
... responses to these problems and the impact of environmental regulation on the competitiveness of each sector. The starting point in this analysis comprises the southward move of the most polluting segments INTRODUCTION 13.
... response by the Canadian pulp and paper industry to new , stringent environmental regulations in- troduced in the 1990s . The introduction of the new regulations occurred at a time when the sector was being forced , due to international ...
... response was " No , the firms are small , family - owned enter- prises which cannot afford the expense " ( Wang , B. C. H. , Consulting En- gineer , interview , 17 July 1999 ) . This perception of the lack of capability of small firms ...
... responses through various R&D institutions. It has set up channels for communi- cating, transferring and diffusing innovation to industry, has set up nu- merous industry outreach programmes, set goals, devised environmental legislation ...