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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... treat- ment of its wastewater and eventually to reduce its sludge disposal cost ( NT $ 2,500 / ton ) . The effluent from its wastewater treatment plant has a moderate load of COD ( chemical oxygen demand ) and is currently dis- charged ...
... wastewater reduced to 2 % from 6 % . Because the company basically dyes for ... treat- ment and plans to reuse a significant amount of treated water . They suc ... treatment and recirculation . Firm nine minimizes its hazardous - waste ...
... wastewater. Wooden pallets are reused for packing and shipping products. Energy consumption has been reduced by 15 ... waste- water treatment and metals recovery system for compliance purposes, the owner-manager indicated that he had no ...
... treatment. These include electrostatic precipitation to treat flue gas, and wastewater treatment. The rising cost of landfill in many countries has also led firms to increase recycling and to seek ways of reusing or disposing of their ...
... wastewater treatment technology. This chapter is organized as follows. The next section provides an over- view of the environmental regulatory regime in Nigeria, followed by a discussioin of the limits of environmental policy as a ...