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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... textile firms , Adeoti identifies a num- ber of " third - party factors ” as key determinants of environmental inno- vation , in addition to firm - level environmental policy and the regulatory framework . He also points to the ...
... textile plants , one food processor , and one electrical equipment manufacturer . Because of the significant wastes generated by the SMEs , four small- and medium - sized establish- ments located outside industrial parks or an export ...
... textiles NT$300M/PRC, National 184 domestic, Australia ISO 9002, ISO 14001 8 textiles NT$300M/ National 50 ISO 14001 domestic, Japan planned and US 9 electrical NT$100M/ National 47 machinery exclusively for ISO 9002, ISO and export to ...
... textile factory , has two full - time and six part - time em- ployees dedicated to R & D . Like other textile factories , the biggest envi- ronmental concern is the wastewater . Through process modification and sludge dewatering , the ...
... textiles , telecommunications , plastic and rubber goods . With a GDP of US $ 294 billion in 1997 and a real GDP growth rate aver- aging over 8.6 % in the last three decades , the island economy , once dubbed as the “ umbrella kingdom ...