Greening industry : new roles for communities, markets, and governments /

Is pollution simply the price of development? Recent evidence shows that many developing countries have already turned the corner in the fight against industrial pollution. The cleanup has begun because developing countries have decided that the benefits of pollution control outweigh the costs. This...

• Corporate Author: Banco Mundial
• Format: Kit Book
• Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2000
• Series: A World Bank policy research report
• Subjects: CONTAMINACION; RESIDUOS INDUSTRIALES; REGULACIONES DEL ESTADO; POLITICA AMBIENTAL; DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE; PAISES EN DESARROLLO; POLUCION; CONTAMINACION DEL MEDIO FISICO; DESARROLLO SUSTENTABLE; ECODESARROLLO; TERCER MUNDO

Table of Contents:

• 1. Is industrial pollution the price of development?
• 2. Regulating pollution in the real world
• 3. Communities, markets, and public information
• 4. Knowledge, poverty, and pollution
• 5. National economic policies: pollution's hidden half
• 6. Managing and sustaining reform
• 7. Greening industry: the new model