Krozer Innovations and the Environment

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84800-197-8
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten

This book Innovations and the Environment aims to review the state of knowledge and to provide an empirical basis for the development and use of new technologies, products and services to reduce the impact of human activities on environmental quality. This is at the core of the debate on economics and the environment. The message is optimistic. Advances in thinking and actions make it possible to maintain high environmental quality at reasonable costs, sometimes even having a positive effect on corporate results. The progress is by no means automatic. Risk taking by entrepreneurs, managers and policy makers is necessary. The idea to write a book about innovations and the environment was born during discussions with Professor Han Brezet who was convinced of the importance of this subject for engineering students. This is because he has found many stories about the successes and failures of environmental technologies and even more on the impact of technologies on environmental qualities, but no reviews on technology and the mindset of entrepreneurship to explain the forces that drive innovations for sustainable development.

Dr Yoram Krozer is Director of the Cartesius Institute, the Institute for Sustainable Innovations of the Netherlands' Technical Universities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krozer, Yoram

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;5
2;Contents;7
3;1 Introduction;10
4;2 Technology for Sustainable Development;16
4.1;2.1 Sustainable Development;16
4.2;2.2 Theories on Environmental Technological Progress;20
4.3;2.3 Neoclassical Theory;20
4.4;2.4 Evolutionary Theory;23
4.5;2.5 Behavioral Theory;26
4.6;2.6 A Framework on Environmental Innovations;29
4.7;2.7 Conclusion;31
5;3 Projecting the Cost of Emissions Reduction;32
5.1;3.1 Best Available Technologies;32
5.2;3.2 Theories on the Cost Function of Emissions Reduction;35
5.3;3.3 Construction of the Cost Functions;37
5.4;3.4 Effectiveness of Policy Making;43
5.5;3.5 Emissions Reduction Scale and Unit Cost;45
5.6;3.6 Streamlined Cost Functions;49
5.7;3.7 Explanation of the Results;52
5.8;3.8 Conclusion;54
6;4 Projecting Innovation Costs and Benefits;56
6.1;4.1 Adaptations and Innovations;56
6.2;4.2 The Attractiveness of Environmental Innovations;58
6.3;4.3 Social Benefit of Environmental Innovations;61
6.4;4.4 Conclusion;70
7;5 Environmental Policy and Technological Progress;72
7.1;5.1 Productivity and Environmental Demands;72
7.2;5.2 Effect-increasing and Cost-reducing Technological Progress;75
7.3;5.3 Factors that Contribute to Technological Progress;82
7.4;5.4 Conclusion;84
8;6 Policy Demands and Environmental Management;86
8.1;6.1 Environmental Management;86
8.2;6.2 Compliance Versus Anticipation;88
8.3;6.3 Benefit of Environmental Management;91
8.4;6.4 Conclusion;96
9;7 Social Demands and Environmental Management;98
9.1;7.1 Social Demand for Products;98
9.2;7.2 Life-cycle Valuation;100
9.3;7.3 Model for Environmental Strategies;102
9.4;7.4 Cases of Life-cycle Management;105
9.5;7.5 Conclusion;110
10;8 Environmental Policy for Innovations;112
10.1;8.1 Induced Innovations;112
10.2;8.2 Instrument Theories and Technological Development;114
10.3;8.3 Policy and Innovation Cycles;123
10.4;8.4 Uncertainties for the Innovator;127
10.5;8.5 Model for Environmental Innovations;130
10.6;8.6 Conclusion;135
11;9 Does Self-regulation Work?;138
11.1;9.1 Self-regulation in Practice;138
11.2;9.2 Self-regulation in Theory;140
11.3;9.3 Experience with Stakeholder Negotiations;143
11.4;9.4 Model for Self-regulation;150
11.5;9.5 Conclusion;155
12;10 How to Progress?;158
12.1;10.1 Innovations Reduce Costs;159
12.2;10.2 Conditions for Cost-saving Innovations;162
13;A Appendix to Chapter 3;166
14;B Appendix to Chapter 4;172
15;C Appendix to Chapter 7;178
16;D Appendix to Chapter 8;188
17;E Appendix to Chapter 9;190
18;References;192
19;Index;210