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Many developing and transition economies have not yet undertaken
the policy integration measures needed to enhance the impact of
industry on sustainable development. In this original and
insightful book, national experts from Chile, China, the Czech
Republic, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey and Zimbabwe - countries which
all have designated national sustainable development strategies -
report on the extent to which recent changes in industrial,
environmental and technology policies have more closely aligned
industrial development with the aims of sustainable development.
For each country, the authors critically assess a number of
important topics including, amongst others, broad trends in
sustainable development; policies for promoting growth of the
manufacturing sector; policies and institutions for (industrial)
environmental management; efforts to encourage the use of
environmentally sound technologies; obstacles to enhancing the
contribution of manufacturing to sustainable development; and
priorities for future action. The results prove disappointing and
reveal that none of the seven countries has yet achieved the degree
of policy integration that could be characterised as an industrial
component of a national sustainable development strategy. Compared
to ten years ago, industry in only two of the seven countries
(China and the Czech Republic) is making any substantial
contribution to socio-economic development whilst attempting to
reduce its negative effects on the environment. However, the
country reports do identify some positive steps that have been
taken and that other countries might adopt in their efforts to
enhance the impacts of industry on sustainable development. This
book charts the progress towards sustainable development of seven
developing and transition economies and the consequences of
industry on this objective. The realistic assessment of the
advances which have been made will be of particular benefit and
interest to practitioners of economic development, industrial
economics and environmental management.
Industries located in developing countries have made major
improvements in environmental performance since the Rio Earth
Summit of 1992. More specifically, their record in reducing
energy-use and water-pollutant intensities has been better than
developed countries. This significant new book investigates what
motivates industries 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 study of the factors that determined EST adoption by
105 manufacturing plants in four different sectors within eight
developing countries. They explore both factors internal to the
plants as well as external factors including governments, markets
and civil society. Environment and Industry in Developing Countries
will be of great interest to development assistance agencies
supporting programmes for industrial environmental management in
developing countries, and also to graduate school programmes in
economic development, technology management, as well as in
international business.
A management agency --such as a publicly or privately owned
electric utility -- must, if it is to be efficient in carrying out
its day-to-day tasks, have a means of monitoring its performance to
assess the efficiency of its operations and the effectiveness of
its planning. For example, how did the demand for electricity
compare with that assumed in planning? How effective were the
incentives applied to induce energy conservation by users? Such ex
post analyses are essential for improving the planning process and
hence for improving decisions with respect to efficiency and
resource allocation. Unfortunately, it seems to be very difficult
for public agencies to make such ex post evaluations an integral
part of agency activities, whether the agencies are "producers," e.
g. , the Corps of Engineers or the Bureau of Reclamation with
respect to water resources management, or are regulatory agencies
such as the Environmental Protection Agency or the Food and Drug
Administration. Here and there a few ex post analyses of agency
programs have been done, but rarely by the responsible agency
itself. These analyses have attempted to compare the results
actually achieved with the results estimated in planning, either in
terms of project outputs or in terms of effectiveness of regulatory
and/or economic incentives in inducing desired changes in behavior.
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