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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... trade and innovation policies . Since the early 1970s a series of highly publicized environmental accidents and persistent prob- lems such as acid rain and surface- and groundwater contamination in numerous industrialized and less ...
... trade and commerce . Anthony Bartzokas is Professorial Fellow and PhD Programme Coordinator at UNU - MERIT and a faculty member at the Department of Economics , University of Athens , Greece . His work in recent years X environment and ...
... trade and economic development, the role of multinational corporations in developing countries, impact of trade liberalization on local production, and environmental regulation and trade and investment patterns. Rene ́ Kemp is Senior ...
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