Environmental Efficiency, Innovation and Economic Performances

ISBN-13: 9780415478526 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 272 str.

Anna Montini;Massimiliano Mazzanti

Opis

Eco-innovation is becoming a conceptual reference point for many regional and international public policies and management strategies. This field of research has been focusing on how environmental innovation is particularly related to the intensity of emissions and economic performance. 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 Goteborg 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-innovation and economic performance, both in the industrial and service sector, with a sector-based perspective rooted mainly in the exploitation of NAMEA data at regional level, and finally with a macroeconomic analysis of the environment, income and welfare. This collection brings together the best of recent research in the interlinked areas of eco-innovation and income-environment relationships studies, and in its entirety is an excellent source of knowledge for postgraduates, researchers and 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 on an applied perspective.

This book provides a fully integrated study of the links between environmental efficiencies, economic performances and innovation.

Environmental policy is acknowledged as a major driver of innovation, as well as changes made within firms, traditional market-based factors and evolutionary effects. The approaches taken by the various authors vary widely and include:

- Analyses of survey data including panel data and Bayesian techniques

- Analysis of microeconomic and macroeconomic factors

- An interweaving of merge of environmental, economic, socio-economic and policy indicators

The analysis presented is intrinsically related, at this macro level of analysis, with the literature on delinking and environmental Kuznets curves and the applications studied are fully international.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Environmental Innovation, Firms’ Economic Performances and Policy Drivers  1. Environmental Innovation Drivers and Economic Performance in Industrial Systems  2. The Dynamic Relationship between Emissions and Manufacturing Firm’s Growth  3. Environmentally-Oriented Strategies and Firm Performance in Services  4. An Early Assessment of the Influence on Eco-Innovation of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme: Evidence from the Italian Paper Industry  Part 2: Environmental Efficiency and Sector Performances  5. Emissions Trends and Labour Productivity Dynamics  6. Production-Related Air Emissions: A Decomposition Analysis for Italy  7. Regional and Sector Environmental Efficiency: Empirical Evidence using the Italian RAMEA  8. Biofuels Public Support and Technological Specialization in the Energy Sector  9. Environmental Impacts of Personal Mobility: Exploring an Austrian EKC  Part 3: Economic Growth, Environmental Degradation and Policies  10. Reconsidering the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis: The Trade Off between Environment and Welfare  11. Environmental Degradation, Economic Growth and Welfare: The Role of Self-Protection Choices  12. Carbon Kuznets Curves: Long-Run Dynamics and Policy Events  13. The EU ETS: CO₂ Price Drivers During the Learning Experience