Innovación Industrial y Regulación Ambiental

Adjuntamos un documento de investigación, producto de la relación del UNU-INTECH (ahora UNU-MERIT) y el Canada"s International Development Research Centre, (IDRC), que examina como la regulación ambiental interactua con el comercio y las políticas de innovación.

Desde inicios de 1970 una serie de accidentes ambientales y problemas persistentes como la lluvia ácida y la contaminación de aguas subterraneas en numerosas ciudades industralizadas o no, han llevado a establecer medidas legislativas para poner freno a esta situación.

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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 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 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. The book concludes that the complexities of environmental and economic relationships disallow universal solutions, and it illustrates the need for context-specific and nonlinear perspectives on the role of regulatory measures in environmental innovation.

DOCUMENTS

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  Preface: Saeed Parto and Brent Herbert-Copley 2007


• Introduction: Saeed Parto 2007


• 1. Public Policy and Corporate Environmental Performance: Case Studies from Taiwan: Nonita Yap, Chih Chao Wu and Shanshin Ton 2007


• 2. Environmental Regulation and Industrial Competitiveness in Pollution-intensive Industries Jonathan Barton, Rhys Jenkins, Anthony Bartzokas, Jan Hesselberg, and Hege Knutsen 2007


• 3. From End-of-pipe to Inside-the-pipe: A Learning Process in Environmental Management in Argentine Industry Daniel Chudnovsky and Andres Lopez 2007


• 4. To the Limits … and Beyond? Firm-level Responses to Regulation in the Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry: Brent Herbert-Copley 2007


• 5. Toward a Theory of Innovation and Industrial Pollution: Evidence from Mexican Manufacturing: Kevin Gallagher 2007


• 6. Environmental Policy, Innovation and Third-Party Factors in Nigerian Manufacturing: John Adeoti 2007


• 7. Environmental Policy in the Presence of Technological Uncertainty, Diversity, and Rigidity: The Case of the Japanese Chlor-Alkali Industry: Masaru Yarime 2007


• 8. Reconfiguring Environmental Regulation: Next Generation Policy Instruments: Neil Gunningham 2007


• 9. Transitions and Institutional Change: The Case of the Dutch Waste Subsystem: Saeed Parto, Derk Loorbach, Ad Lansink, and René Kemp 2007


• 10. Integrating Environmental and Innovation Policies: René Kemp 2007


• 11. C onclusion: Brent Herbert-Copley and Saeed Parto 2007