This paper reviews and discusses the debate over the effectiveness of environmental regulation in promoting industrial Technological Environmental Innovation (TEI). Using the innovation-friendly regulatory principles adapted from Porter and van der Linde (1995a, 1995b), this paper demonstrates how properly designed and implemented environmental regulation (TEI promoting regulation) has played a...

Regulatory initiatives relating to biotechnology-derived livestock have focused on animal health, environmental impact, and the general concept of the safety of the food and by-products derived from such animals. Existing regulatory frameworks have been stretched to accommodate these emerging concerns. Public concerns and the expectations of society mean that the regulatory infrastructure is su...

Article history: Available online 27 March 2007 The standard metaphor of market failure is an impediment to the crafting of environmental policy that can escape policy lock in. Sustainability requires a policy process that can avoid this lock in. Sustainability concerns the creation of dynamic human processes that can respond to—indeed anticipate—unanticipated feedback from biological processes...

BACKGROUND Second hand smoke (SHS) exposure is a severe public health problem, especially in low and middle countries, but no studies have examined both individual and city-level variables influencing exposure. METHODS A cross-sectional multistage sampling design was used to survey subjects from 21 cities in China. Using a standardized questionnaire individual level information was collected....

A number of serious environmental health hazards created by under-regulated/unregulated industries have morphed into public health crises around the world. The Conference on Corporate Interference with Science and Health (the Conference) was held to examine this trend in three economically significant industries: fracking, food, and wireless. The Conference provided an overview of the structure...

With the rapid development of social economy, deterioration environment has become more and serious; it is urgent to find a balance between economic environmental protection. Therefore, enterprises are appealed invest in protection, local municipalities supervise behaviors enterprises, while central government plays role regulation. In order study preconditions for better strategy combination a...

This paper examines the threshold effects of environmental regulation on China’s total factor energy efficiency (TFEE), by selecting the technological innovation (as measured by patents) as threshold variable. Using the SBM (Slacksbased Measure)-undesirable model, we first estimate TFEE of China's 30 provinces from 2000 to 2011 under the constraints of energy conservation and emission reduction...

Introduction: Studies related to investigating reasons of mental disorders emphasize on role of environmental factors in creation of the disorders. For this reason, in this paper, a research was conducted to investigate the relationship between BIS/BAS systems and emotional regulation difficulties with alexithymia. Methods: 200 undergraduate students of University of Tabriz in majors includi...

Do tougher environmental regulations cause firms to flee the country? Although several studies document the impact of environmental regulation on domestic production, the question of whether firms increase foreign manufacturing in response to new domestic regulation has remained unanswered. Consequently, our understanding of the efficacy of environmental policy is limited, as is our understandi...