Technology and the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Emerging Trends in the Nigerian Manufacturing Industry : Emerging Trends in the Nigerian Manufacturing Industry

"This title was first published in 2002. Why do firms adopt pollution control technologies? How can environmental policy be strengthened? How can technology and industrial policies achieve green innovation? This volume critically examines whether the "stimulus-response" notion of environmental policy functions as the primary motivation for the adoption of pollution control technologies. It also questions whether technology and industrial policies can help to achieve the objective of green innovation. Interesting and well-researched empirical case studies offer important insights into the observed trends in the quantitative analysis. Focusing in particular on Nigerian industry, John Adeoti exposes the gains from and constraints upon firms' technology investment in pollution control."--Provided by publisher "Cover"--"Half Title"--"Dedication" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "List of Illustrations" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "1 INTRODUCTION" -- "1.1 Technology and the Environment: Exploring the Missing Links" -- "1.2 Industrial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Overview of the Nigerian Case" -- "1.3 Sectoral Significance of Industrial Wastewater Pollution" -- "1.4 Research Questions and Objectives" -- "1.5 Outline of the Book" -- "2 TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION AND ADOPTION CAUSALITIES" -- "2.1 Technology Diffusion: Outcome of Adoption Decisions" -- "2.2 An Overview of the Scope of Diffusion" -- "2.3 Models Based on Implicit Tradition of Old versus New Technologies" -- "2.4 Adoption of Technologies and the Supply-side Factors" -- "2.5 Diffusion and Competitive Selection" -- "2.6 Conclusion" -- "3 ADOPTION CAUSALITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN TECHNOLOGIES: A CONCEPTUAL VIEWPOINT" -- "3.1 Firm Level Technology Adoption Behaviour: A Model of Adoption Causalities for Environmentally Benign Technologies" -- "3.1.1 Technology Response for Pollution Abatement or Prevention" -- "3.1.2 Adoption Causalities in Perspective" -- "3.2 A Trajectory of Firms' Technology Responses to Environmental Policy" -- "3.2.1 Stage 1: Weak Regulation, Limited Technology Responses" -- "3.2.2 Stage 2: Appreciable Regulation, Notable Technology Responses" -- "3.2.3 Stage 3: Strong Regulation, Prominent Technology Responses" -- "3.3 Conclusion" -- "4 ADOPTION OF ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN TECHNOLOGIES IN NIGERIAN MANUFACTURING" -- "4.1 Environmental Regulation in Nigeria" -- "4.1.1 The Institutional Framework" -- "4.1.2 The Policy Instruments" -- "4.2 A Framework for the Analysis of the Adoption of Environmentally Benign Technologies in Nigerian Manufacturing" -- "4.2.1 Environmental Policy as a Major Driver of Adoption" -- "4.2.2 Auxiliary Drivers of Adoption "4.3 Conclusion"--"5 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY"--"5.1 Sampling and Data Collection" -- "5.2 Research Questionnaires" -- "5.3 Econometric Analysis" -- "6 TRENDS IN TECHNOLOGY RESPONSES FOR WATER POLLUTION CONTROL IN NIGERIAN MANUFACTURING" -- "6.1 Characteristics of Nigerian Manufacturing" -- "6.1.1 Firm Size Distribution" -- "6.1.2 Affiliation to Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) " -- "6.1.3 Distribution of Age in Production" -- "6.1.4 Human and Physical Capital" -- "6.1.5 Sources of Technological Knowledge" -- "6.1.6 Environmental Management" -- "6.2 Trends in Technology Responses for Industrial Water Pollution Control" -- "6.2.1 Technology Responses for Pollution Abatement (TPA) " -- "6.2.2 Technology Responses for Pollution Prevention (TPP) " -- "6.2.3 Sources of Technical Solution to TPA/TPP Problems" -- "6.3 Obstacles to Technology Responses for Water Pollution Control" -- "6.4 Conclusion" -- "7 TECHNOLOGY RESPONSES FOR WATER POLLUTION CONTROL: AN ANALYSIS OF ADOPTION CAUSALITIES" -- "7.1 The Empirical Model" -- "7.2 Adoption Causalities for Environmentally Benign Technologies (EBTs)" -- "7.2.1 Environmental Policy as a Major Driver of EBT Adoption" -- "7.2.2 Auxiliary Drivers of EBT Adoption" -- "7.3 Adoption Causalities for Technology Responses for Water Pollution Abatement (TPA)" -- "7.3.1 Environmental Policy as a Major Driver of TPA Adoption" -- "7.3.2 Auxiliary Drivers of TP A Adoption" -- "7.4 Adoption Causalities for Technology Responses for Water Pollution Prevention (TPP)" -- "7.4.1 Environmental Policy as a Major Driver of TPP Adoption" -- "7.4.2 Auxiliary Drivers of TPP Adoption" -- "7.5 Conclusion: A Synthesis of Adoption Causalities" -- "8 CASE STUDY ILLUSTRATIONS OF FIRMS' TECHNOLOGY RESPONSES FOR WATER POLLUTION CONTROL" -- "8.1 The Case Studies: Firms in the Food and Beverages Sector "8.2 The Case Studies: Firms in the Textiles Sector"--"8.3 Conclusion"--"9 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS" -- "9.1 Major versus Auxiliary Driver Hypothesis" -- "9.2 The Empirical Results in Brief" -- "9.3 Policy Implications" -- "9.4 Directions for Further Research" -- "References" -- "Appendices