Industrial innovation and environmental regulation : developing workable solutions / edited by Saeed Parto and Brent Herbert-Copley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parto, Saeed.

Herbert-Copley, Brent, 1960-

UNU-MERIT.

International Development Research Centre (Canada)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--Case studies.

Environmental policy.

Industries--Environmental aspects--Case studies.

Industries.

Technological innovations--Case studies.

Technological innovations.

Environmental management--Case studies.

Environmental management.

Physical Description:

xviii, 305 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations University Press/International Development Research Centre, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 modern era of environmental management began in the early 1970s, regulations have been used with increasing intensity and sophistication as the main instrument in steering the behaviour of economic agents in industrial production. The purpose of environmental regulation has been 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. Since the 1980s there has been a movement towards 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 engaged in debate about the apporpriate role of governments in protecting and improving the environment and controlling the environmental impact of industry. The contributors to this book examine a number of political and industrial trends and responses to these challenges. A useful set of case studies appraise environmental policies and comprehensive statements on environmental protection and sustainable development by numerous countries in the North and the South.

Contents:

Public policy and corporate environmental performance : case studies from Taiwan / Nonita T. Yap ... [et al.]

Environmental regulation and industrial competitiveness in pollution-intensive industries / Jonathan Barton and Rhys Jenkins

Environmental management and innovative capabilities in Argentine industry / Daniel Chudnovsky and Andrés López

To the limits ... and beyond? Firm-level responses to regulation in the Canadian pulp and paper industry / Brent Herbert-Copley

Toward a theory of innovation and industrial pollution : evidence from Mexican manufacturing / Kevin Gallagher

Environmental policy, innovation and third-party factors in Nigerian manufacturing / John Adeoti

Environmental policy in the presence of technological uncertainty, diversity, and rigidity : the case of the Japanese chlor-alkali industry / Masaru Yarime

Reconfiguring environmental regulation : next generation policy instruments / Neil Gunningham

Transitions and institutional change : the case of the Dutch waste subsystem / Saeed Parto ... [et al.]

Integrating environmental and innovation policies / René Kemp

Conclusion / Brent Herbert-Copley and Saeed Parto.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-280-91577-3

9786610915774

92-808-7078-5

1-4294-5570-5

OCLC:

923704680