Policies for Cleaner Technology: A New Agenda for Government and Industry

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Clean technology does not just aim to dilute or detoxify industrial waste. It aims to eliminate it by re-engineering the entire production cycle. As industry is constrained by regulations on the one hand and consumer pressure on the other, energy-efficient, resource-efficient and pollution-free production becomes imperative. It will be the next stage of industrial development. Using extensive empirical analysis of a range of different industrial sectors, this book shows how cleaner technology can be implemented, above all by the companies themselves. It looks at regulatory initiatives and focuses on how firms themselves can introduce the new technologies, systems and polices required.

Anthony Clayton is the Alcan Professor of Caribbean Sustainable Development at the University of the West Indies Centre for Environment and Development. Graham Spinardi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Social Science at the University of Edinburgh. Robin Williams is Director of the Research Centre for Social Science at the University of Edinburgh.