Small Firms and the Environment in Developing Countries - Collective Impacts, Collective Action (Paperback, illustrated edition)

Small firms -- including "microenterprises" and "small and medium enterprises" (SMEs) -- play a vital economic role in developing countries. They typically provide half of all jobs. In addition, they foster entrepreneurship and help key sectors adapt to changing market conditions. In light of these benefits, programs promoting small firms have become a cornerstone of economic development policy. Increasingly, however, scholars and policymakers are also exploring the link between small firms and the environment.

The first compendium of research and policy analysis on this topic, this book is organized around three questions: How important is small firm pollution? Will forcing small firms to comply with environmental regulations exacerbate unemployment and poverty? What policy options are available to control small firm pollution? Eleven case studies from China, Ecuador, Honduras, India, Malaysia, and Mexico address these questions. They compare the environmental damages caused by small firms and large ones. They explore the positive and negative economic consequences of pollution control strategies focusing on small firms, the administrative challenges of regulating thousands of firms that are often unregistered and unknown to the government, and they describe innovative approaches for persuading small firms to implement effective pollution controls.

The case studies cover a variety of industrial sectors including ceramics, leather tanning, textiles, and agro-industry, and evaluate a wide range of environmental management strategies that include encouraging collective action among small firms, creating economic incentives for pollution control, and helping small firms adoptclean technologies and environmental management systems. Many of the chapters are groundbreaking, addressing topics new to the literature -- for example, the role of international trade in greening small firms, and funding small firm pollution control projects by linking them to efforts to stem global warming.

Highly readable, Small Firms and the Environment in Developing Countries is a valuable text for courses in development policy and economics that have an environmental component or focus. It will also prove of interest to development workers, policymakers in developing countries, and students and scholars of environmental policy and law.

General

Imprint:	Resources for the Future Press (RFF Press)
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2006
First published:	2006
Editors:	Allen Blackman
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	246
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-933115-29-0
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Development economics
LSN:	1-933115-29-7
Barcode:	9781933115290

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