1st Edition

Regulatory Realities The Implementation and Impact of Industrial Environmental Regulation

By Andrew Gouldson, Joseph Murphy Copyright 1998
190 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Arguing that the performance of industrial environmental regulation is determined by the level and nature of the innovation it stimulates, this text aims to analyze the influence of different structures and styles of implementation on innovation in regulated companies. Further aims include: examining the economic and environmental performance of different forms of innovation developed and applied... Read more
Environment, Economy and Policy Reform * Environment, Innovation and Technical Change * Mandatory Regulation and the European Union's Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive * Voluntary Regulation and the European Union's Eco-Management and Audit Scheme * The Implementation and Impact of Industrial Environmental regulation in the UK * The Implementation and Impact of Industrial Environmental Regulation in the UK * The Implementation and Impact of Industrial Environmental Regulation in the Netherlands * Summary and Synthesis: Reshaping Regulatory Realities * References * Index

Biography

Andrew Gouldson is a lecturer in environmental policy at the Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. Joseph Murphy is a research fellow at Mansfield College, University of Oxford.