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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... Strategic and International Studies ( USA ) corporate synergy system chemo - thermo - mechanical pulping Canadian Trade Office in Taipei direct reduced iron Defensie Telematica Organisatie ( Dutch sustainable technol- ogy development ...
... strategy of technology adoption rather than continual innovation in environmental management . This reactive approach is also the point of departure for the second narrative , but with an emphasis on process in- novation as a result of ...
... Strategy ? " Harvard Business Review 74 ( 6 ) : 61–78 . Porter , Michael E. and Claas van der Linde ( 1995 ) ... Strategic Thinking and Policy 3 : 15–31 . Sabatier , Paul A. and Hank C. Jenkins - Smith ( 1999 ) “ The Advocacy Coalition ...
... strategy to reduce risks to hu- mans and the environment " ( UNEP 1994 ) . Applied to production pro- cesses , cleaner production is concerned with conserving raw materials and energy , eliminating toxic raw materials , and reducing the ...
... strategy had to change . In 1987 the government of Taiwan placed the environment on its econo- mic development policy agenda . Several departments were given re- sponsibilities for environmental management with the Environmental ...