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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 41
... ronmental regulations fit into an overall innovation system , complete with context - specific institutional landscapes . This volume explores the scope for integrating environmental and innovation policymaking pro- cesses. The xvii ...
... ronmental well - being can be achieved through technological advances and other forms of innovation leading to increased efficiency in systems of production and consumption . The ( largely ) retrospective perspectives of ecological ...
... ronmental damage as something that ought to be avoided or minimized . The different types of transition reported in the case studies of this vol- ume have all taken place through " a set of connected changes , which re- inforce each ...
... ronmental regulations had limited success . This was mainly due to inade- quate enforcement mechanisms and a lack of “ institutional responsibility for environmental management " . The environmental regulations were nevertheless used in ...
... ronmental concern is the wastewater . Through process modification and sludge dewatering , the firm has achieved tremendous reductions in the volume as well as the COD and BOD ( biological oxygen demand ) load of its wastewater . The ...