Environmental efficiency, innovation and economic performances / / edited by Massimiliano Mazzanti, Anna Montini

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.4/083
• Soggetto topico: Industrial management - Environmental aspects; Industries - Environmental aspects; Technological innovations - Environmental aspects; Organizational change - Environmental aspects
• Altri autori: MazzantiMassimiliano MontiniAnna
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I 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 firms' growth; 3 Environmentally-orientated 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 II Environmental efficiency and sector performances5 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 III 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 choices12 Carbon Kuznets curves: Long-run dynamics and policy events; 13 The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme: CO2 price drivers during the learning experience; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Göte
• Titolo autorizzato: Environmental efficiency, innovation and economic performances
• ISBN: 1-136-96218-2; 1-136-96219-0; 1-282-73324-9; 9786612733246; 0-203-85041-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825909803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge explorations in environmental economics ; ; 25.