Environmental Efficiency, Innovation and Economic Performances

by Anna Montini; Massimiliano Mazzanti

• ISBN13: 9780203850411
• ISBN10: 0203850416
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-07-02
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This book deals with the increasingly complex issues of eco-innovation. Eco-innovation is becoming a conceptual reference point for many regional and international public policies and management strategies. Since 2000, this field of research has been focusing on environmental innovation, particularly related to the intensity of emissions, and economic performance and efficiency. There are two reasons for this growing interest. The first is that environmental performance is one of the main economic policy goals of European countries thanks to its relevance to the Lisbon Strategy and the Göteborg priorities for sustainable development. The second, which is partly linked to the first, is related to the growing impact of environmental regulation on private sector activity in many European countries.This volume brings together microeconomics studies on firms' eco and economic performance both in the industrial and service sector; by considering a sector based perspective rooted mainly in the exploitation of NAMEA data; at regional level, and a macroeconomic analysis of the environment, income and welfare.This collection brings together the best of recent research in the area of eco-innovation and in its entirety is an excellent source of knowledge for postgraduates and researchers students of Environmental and Ecological Economics alike. As well as fully developing the theoretical aspects of its topics, these essays are also strongly policy-oriented and will be of interest to anyone seeking information an applied perspective.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Environmental innovation, firms' economic performances and policy drivers

Environmental innovation drivers and economic performance in industrial systems

The dynamic relationship between emissions and manufacturing firm's growth

Environmentally-oriented strategies and firm performance in services

An early assessment of the influence on eco-innovation of the EU emissions trading scheme: evidence from the Italian paper industry

Environmental efficiency and sector performances

Emissions trends and labour productivity dynamics

Production-related air emissions: a decomposition analysis for Italy

Regional and sector environmental efficiency: empirical evidence using the Italian RAMEA

Biofuels public support and technological specialization in the energy sector

Environmental impacts of personal mobility: exploring an Austrian EKC

Economic growth, environmental degradation and policies

Reconsidering the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis: the trade off between environment and welfare

Environmental degradation, economic growth and welfare: the role of self-protection choices

Carbon Kuznets curves: long-run dynamics and policy events

The EU ETS: CO₂ price drivers during the learning experience

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