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This chapter examines the opportunities for a green industrial policy aimed at making industrial sectors more environmentally friendly through a process of restructuring. The chapter is about “eco-restructuring”, the restructuring of sectors and product chains in environmentally beneficial ways. Eco-restructuring focuses on issues of industrial decline and the process of creative destruction — issues neglected in the literature on environmental policy and environmental management, which tends to deal with changes in production processes and organisational structures within companies rather than structural change within product chains.
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Kemp, R. (2001). Opportunities for a Green Industrial Policy from an Evolutionary Technology Perspective. In: Binder, M., Jänicke, M., Petschow, U. (eds) Green Industrial Restructuring. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04419-3_10
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