Innovations and the Environment

• Main Author: Krozer, Yoram (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2008.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Environmental management.; Environmental economics.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.; Environmental Management.; Environmental Economics.

Companies wishing to become less environmentally polluting without incurring high (or increasing) costs must embrace innovations. There are various technologies which enable organisations to achieve large reductions in their emissions by employing resource saving, using new resources or following po...

Table of Contents:

• Technology for Sustainable Development
• Projecting the Cost of Emissions Reduction
• Projecting Innovation Costs and Benefits
• Environmental Policy and Technological Progress
• Policy Demands and Environmental Management
• Social Demands and Environmental Management
• Environmental Policy for Innovations
• Does Self-regulation Work?
• How to Progress?.