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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... transition management 268 10.3 The cycle of transition management ......... . 269 10.4 Transition as a goal - seeking process with multiple transition images and goals 271 List of acronyms ABCSD AOO AOX APEC APO BCPPDP BMBF TABLES AND ...
... governance. Kevin P. Gallagher is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations, Boston University and ... transition management in theory and practices. Chih Chao Wu is Associate Professor at Feng Chia University ...
... Transition management " , adopted as a policy style by the Dutch government , and ecological modernization , adopted by the red - green German government since 1998 , are products of this dialogue in the European context . Else- where ...
... transition signalled a move from unregulated handling of waste to ... management , a significant drop in the total volume of non- separated ... management in the Netherlands ( Parto et al . , this volume ) , the adoption of new ...
... transition management'', described as being concerned with altering social trajectories through innovative and interactive policy-making. In transition management the emphasis is placed on process management so as to nurture not one ...