Environmental Efficiency, Innovation and Economic Performances

ISBN-13: 9780415539807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str.

Anna Montini; Massimiliano Mazzanti

Opis

This text 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.

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