Conclusions

Abstract

The purpose of this book has been to analyze and account for the significant environmental-technology (E-T) developments that have remarkably emerged since the early 1980s. A systematic comparison of varying institutional structures across advanced industrialized countries and time periods was the means by which this book’s study was conducted. Developments in the wind energy industry in the United Kingdom and Germany, in the packaging waste recycling industry across the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland, and in the environmentally friendly auto industry in the United States and Japan were compared and presented in chapters 4, 5, and 6 respectively. This chapter includes both the discussion of the results and findings.