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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... significant environmental issues for a host of actors , includ- ing regulatory agencies . By the early 1990s it had become apparent that many of the environmental problems targeted by policymakers required more than end - of - pipe ...
... ( significantly different ) dynamic equilibrium is reached ( Rotmans , Kemp and van Asselt 2001 ) . The occurrence of a ... significant social , environmental 7 State Variable A Thermodynamic Branch < ... Optimum Operating 6 SAEED PARTO.
... significant part of economic policymaking focused on innovation should thus be about determining the desirability of the technology in question , the institutionalization process ( es ) required to adopt the tech- nology , and whether ...
... significant ramifications for the socio- economic , political and cultural spheres . A second example is provided through the evolution of waste manage- ment in the Netherlands ( see Parto et al . , this volume ) . In this case two ...
... significant policy innovation is the promotion of voluntary initiatives such as ISO 14001 through regulatory and other measures, making Taiwan a country with one of the highest number of firms certified to ISO 14001. Barton et al ...