1st Edition

Environmental Efficiency, Innovation and Economic Performances

Edited By Anna Montini, Massimiliano Mazzanti Copyright 2010
    272 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    272 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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.

    Introduction Massimiliano Mazzanti and Anna Montini  Part 1. Environmental innovation, firms’ economic performances and policy drivers  1. Environmental innovation drivers and economic performance in industrial systems Davide Antonioli, Massimiliano Mazzanti and Roberto Zoboli  2. The dynamic relationship between emissions and manufacturing firm’s growth Giulio Cainelli, Massimiliano Mazzanti and Roberto Zoboli  3. Environmentally-oriented strategies and firm performance in services Giulio Cainelli, Massimiliano Mazzanti and Roberto Zoboli  4. An early assessment of the influence on eco-innovation of the EU emissions trading scheme: evidence from the Italian paper industry Serena Pontoglio  Part 2. Environmental efficiency and sector performances  5. Emissions trends and labour productivity dynamics Giovanni Marin and Massimiliano Mazzanti  6. Production-related air emissions: a decomposition analysis for Italy Aldo Femia and Renato Marra Campanale  7. Regional and sector environmental efficiency: empirical evidence using the Italian RAMEA Massimiliano Mazzanti and Anna Montini  8. Biofuels public support and technological specialization in the energy sector Valeria Costantini, Francesco Crespi and Annalisa Zezza  9. Environmental impacts of personal mobility: exploring an Austrian EKC Michael Getzner  Part 3 Economic growth, environmental degradation and policies  10. Reconsidering the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis: the trade off between environment and welfare Nicola Cantore and Maurizio Canavari  11. Environmental degradation, economic growth and welfare: the role of self-protection choices Angelo Antoci and Simone Borghesi  12. Carbon Kuznets curves: long-run dynamics and policy events Massimiliano Mazzanti and Antonio Musolesi  13. The EU ETS: CO2 price drivers during the learning experience Emile Alberola, Julien Chevallier and Benoît Chèze

    Biography

    Massimiliano Mazzanti is Associate Professor in Environmental Economics at the University of Ferrara, Italy.

    Anna Montini is Assistant Professor in Economics and Environmental Economics at the University of Bologna, Italy.