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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... studies on global and regional issues related to sustainable and equitable development. As a specialist in de- velopment literature, IDRC contributes to the body of knowledge on these issues to further the cause of global understanding ...
... studies of particular firms and industries in Argentina , Taiwan , Nigeria , Japan and Canada . UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY UNU - MERIT IDRC CRDI Industrial innovation and environmental regulation : Developing workable solutions Edited.
... studies . 3. Technological innovations — Case studies . 4. Environmental management Case studies . I. Parto , Saeed . II . Herbert - Copley , Brent , 1960– GE170.149 2007 363.7'05 - dc22 2006032036 Contents List of tables and figures ...
... studies from Taiwan ............... Nonita T. Yap , John Devlin , Chih Chao Wu and Shanshin Ton 2 Environmental regulation and industrial competitiveness in pollution - intensive industries vii X xiii xvii 1 22 51 4 To the limits ...
... studies ROC environmental laws and regulations Share of LDCs in world manufacturing value added in 10 pollution - intensive industries , 1980 , 1985 , 1990 , 1996 Percentage share of 10 pollution - intensive industries in manufacturing ...