Informal Regulation of Industrial Pollution in Developing Countries

Informal Regulation of Industrial Pollution in Developing Countries
Author: Sheoli Pargal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN:

When formal regulation is weak or absent, communities often use other channels to induce pollution abatement by local factories in a process of "informal regulation." The resulting "pollution equilibrium" reflects the relative bargaining power of the community and the plant. This note uses Indonesian data from 1989-90 on plant-level organic water pollution to test the informal regulation hypothesis.

Greening Industry

Greening Industry
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2000
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780195211276

Accompanying CD-ROM contains background and reference material for the text, including the text itself, as well as a slightly modified version of the World Bank's New ideas for pollution regulation (NIPR) web site, current as of 9/29/99. CD-ROM also includes Netscape, Adobe Acrobat, and Real Media audio/video player.

Industrial Pollution in Japan

Industrial Pollution in Japan
Author: Jun Ui
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1992
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This publication describes and analyses the negative side effects of Japan's rapid technological and industrial development since the Meiji period. It examines the socio-economic and technological causes of ecological damage through case studies of several examples of industrial pollution in the process of Japan's modernization, including the Ashio copper mine case, the Morinaga milk arsenic poisoning incident, Minamata Disease and the Miike coal mine explosion.

Voluntary Environmental Programs

Voluntary Environmental Programs
Author: Peter DeLeon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780739133224

Protecting the environment is often not the primary objective of businesses. As the world has become more environmentally aware, the necessity of environmental regulations becomes apparent. Voluntary Environmental Programs: A Policy Perspective examines different approaches to environmental protection in business. Typically, environmental improvements on the part of industry result from government regulations that command certain action from industry and then control how well it performs. An alternative approach is voluntary environmental agreements, where firms voluntarily commit to make certain environmental improvements individually, as part of an industry association, or under the guidance of a government entity. For example, many new initiatives targeting climate change originate from companies that voluntarily commit to reduce their carbon output or footprint.

IPPS

IPPS
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 90
Release: 1995
Genre: Factory and trade waste
ISBN:

Trade and the Environment

Trade and the Environment
Author: Brian R. Copeland
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2005-08-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780691124001

Nowhere has the divide between advocates and critics of globalization been more striking than in debates over free trade and the environment. And yet the literature on the subject is high on rhetoric and low on results. This book is the first to systematically investigate the subject using both economic theory and empirical analysis. Brian Copeland and Scott Taylor establish a powerful theoretical framework for examining the impact of international trade on local pollution levels, and use it to offer a uniquely integrated treatment of the links between economic growth, liberalized trade, and the environment. The results will surprise many. The authors set out the two leading theories linking international trade to environmental outcomes, develop the empirical implications, and examine their validity using data on measured sulfur dioxide concentrations from over 100 cities worldwide during the period from 1971 to 1986. The empirical results are provocative. For an average country in the sample, free trade is good for the environment. There is little evidence that developing countries will specialize in pollution-intensive products with further trade. In fact, the results suggest just the opposite: free trade will shift pollution-intensive goods production from poor countries with lax regulation to rich countries with tight regulation, thereby lowering world pollution. The results also suggest that pollution declines amid economic growth fueled by economy-wide technological progress but rises when growth is fueled by capital accumulation alone. Lucidly argued and authoritatively written, this book will provide students and researchers of international trade and environmental economics a more reliable way of thinking about this contentious issue, and the methodological tools with which to do so.

Environmental Law in Developing Countries

Environmental Law in Developing Countries
Author: Marianela CedeƱo Bonilla
Publisher: IUCN
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2004
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9782831708188

This book contains a selection of papers on various legal issues of interest to developing countries which have been prepared by Fellows from InWent who came to Germany between 2002 and 2004 from Africa, Asia, and Latin America to research and write about subjects of their choice at the IUCN Environmental Law Centre.