| Title | Environment and Industry in Developing Countries |
| Abstract | Manufacturing plants located in developing countries have made major improvements in their environmental performance since the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. More specifically, their percentage reduction in energy and water-pollutant intensities has been greater than in developed countries. This new book investigates what has motivated a number of plants in developing countries to adopt environmentally sound technology (EST) - a subject about which very little is actually known. The authors present the findings of a United Nations Industrial Development Organization study of the factors that determined EST adoption by 98 manufacturing plants in three different sub-sectors within eight developing countries. They document the relative importance of numerous factors, both internal and external to the plants. The latter are categorized as per the three institutions that transmit the adoption incentives to plants, namely government, markets and civil society. |
| Date | 2007 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Pages | 368 pages |
| Price | £ 89.96/US$ 162.00 |
| ISBN | 978-1-84542-183-0 |
| Co-publisher | Edward Elgar |
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