1st Edition

Technology and the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa Emerging Trends in the Nigerian Manufacturing Industry

By John. O Adeoti Copyright 2002
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This title was first published in 2002. Why do firms adopt pollution control technologies? How can environmental policy be strengthened? How can technology and industrial policies achieve green innovation? This volume critically examines whether the "stimulus-response" notion of environmental policy functions as the primary motivation for the adoption of pollution control technologies. It also... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: Technology Diffusion and Adoption Causalities; 3: Adoption Causalities for Environmentally Benign Technologies: A Conceptual Viewpoint; 4: Adoption of Environmentally Benign Technologies in Nigerian Manufacturing; 5: Research Methodology; 6: Trends in Technology Responses for Water Pollution Control in Nigerian Manufacturing; 7: Technology Responses for Water Pollution Control: An Analysis of Adoption Causalities; 8: Case Study Illustrations of Firms’ Technology Responses for Water Pollution Control; 9: Summary and Conclusions

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John. O Adeoti