This paper analyzes the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act (TURA), evaluating what TURA has achieved, how it has been implemented, how it motivates firms to change and how its underlying principles might be strengthened to better support innovation for toxics use reduction. Through this analysis recent debates are engaged about the potentials and limitations of using regulation to promote innovation for the environment. The analysis here shows that TURA is distinct from existing regulatory programmes in how it requires firms to self-evaluate and plan for process improvements, supports implementation through technical assistance and focuses on pollution prevention rather than control. Mandatory planning, new mechanisms of accountability ...
Self-regulation is a priority in environmental policy. This paper assesses whether self-regulation f...
Many environmental challenges facing society today, such as climate change and integrated water mana...
Non-observance of environmental standards among small firms in traditional industries such as garmen...
evaluating what TURA has achieved, how it has been implemented, how it motivates firms to change and...
Environmental innovation enables breaking the common linkages between industrial growth and environm...
Governments enact environmental regulations to compel firms to internalize pollution externalities. ...
AbstractThe state of Massachusetts enacted the Toxic Use Reduction Act (TURA) in 1989. The law requi...
Technological Environmental innovation (TEI) has been taken to be a critical means to achieve both e...
In recent years, the concern about environmental problems and increasing environmental regulation re...
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ...
Technological change is now generally regarded as essential in achieving the next major advances in ...
A growing number of firms have begun work toward the development of innovative systems that consume ...
Environmental resources and human knowledge are the ultimate foundations on which human welfare is b...
This paper reviews the existing theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between env...
Interest in promoting Pollution Prevention (P2) has been increasing since 1991, following the passag...
Self-regulation is a priority in environmental policy. This paper assesses whether self-regulation f...
Many environmental challenges facing society today, such as climate change and integrated water mana...
Non-observance of environmental standards among small firms in traditional industries such as garmen...
evaluating what TURA has achieved, how it has been implemented, how it motivates firms to change and...
Environmental innovation enables breaking the common linkages between industrial growth and environm...
Governments enact environmental regulations to compel firms to internalize pollution externalities. ...
AbstractThe state of Massachusetts enacted the Toxic Use Reduction Act (TURA) in 1989. The law requi...
Technological Environmental innovation (TEI) has been taken to be a critical means to achieve both e...
In recent years, the concern about environmental problems and increasing environmental regulation re...
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ...
Technological change is now generally regarded as essential in achieving the next major advances in ...
A growing number of firms have begun work toward the development of innovative systems that consume ...
Environmental resources and human knowledge are the ultimate foundations on which human welfare is b...
This paper reviews the existing theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between env...
Interest in promoting Pollution Prevention (P2) has been increasing since 1991, following the passag...
Self-regulation is a priority in environmental policy. This paper assesses whether self-regulation f...
Many environmental challenges facing society today, such as climate change and integrated water mana...
Non-observance of environmental standards among small firms in traditional industries such as garmen...