Employment Impacts of Cleaner Production

by Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9783790800937
• ISBN10: 3790800937
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Physica Verlag

Summary

The book provides an empirical analysis of the factors that determine the employment impact of environmental innovations. The multivariate estimations are based on a methodology taking direct and indirect employment effects on the firm level into account. The data are derived from interviews with more than 1500 firms in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the UK specifically conducted for this analysis. In addition to the empirical study based on interviews, case studies from five selected business sectors are used to provide profound insight in the environmental innovation behaviour of the firms.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Synthesis Report	1	(54)
Employment impacts of cleaner production: theory, methodology and results
Matteo Bartolomeo, René Kemp, Klaus Rennings and Thomas Zwick	3	(52)
Part II: Case Studies	55	(140)
Windows
Mathias Binswanger and Daniel Schulthess	57	(26)
Recycling
Suhita Osório-Peters	83	(36)
Biomass
Andrea Marsanich	119	(14)
Biotechnology
Anthony Arundel, Ivo Demandt and René Kemp	133	(38)
Financial services
Neville Reeve and Steven Glynn	171	(24)
Part III: National Survey Results	195	(106)
The Swiss survey
Najib Harabi and Annette lochem	197	(16)
The German survey
Klaus Rennings and Thomas Zwick	213	(16)
The Dutch survey
Anthony Arundel, Leann Chervenic-Poeth and René Kemp	229	(38)
The UK survey
Steven Glynn	267	(16)
The Italian survey
Matteo Bartolomeo and Rita Canu	283	(18)
Annex: IMPRESS Questionnaire	301	(20)
Contributors	321