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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... sectors and firms in different socio-economic systems to influence the development of environmental technologies. The focus, in other words, is less on the design of optimal environmental policy measures and more on understanding how ...
... sector officials responsible for environmental or innovation policy in countries included in the study. This project is a collaborative initiative between the United Nations University's Institute on New Technologies (UNU-INTECH) and ...
... sector actors toward meeting shared environmental objectives . Although the history of environmental regulations ... sectors carefully designed environmental regulation as a key fea- ture of industrial policy can increase firm ...
... sectors needed to modernize in order to remain competitive. The need for moderniza- tion led many firms to adopt technologies with superior environmental performance. A similar point is made by Herbert-Copley (this volume) in the case ...
... sector studies are more likely to reveal the systemic nature of innovation and to generate generalizable findings for further research and policy- making purposes. Barton et al.'s sectoral focus is unique as it transcends national ...