—Tom Tietenberg, Mitchell Family Professor of Economics, Colby College

Greening Industry is a terrific report:   it makes clear that the pessimistic prognoses for environmental degradation as industrialization proceeds in the developing world are by no means inevitable.  Based on years of research and direct experience, it provides both lucid conceptual descriptions of new models for addressing pollution and fascinating reports on their use in a number of developing countries.  There is, for example, a clear explication of how pollution taxes work, along with four case studies of their effective use in Colombia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and China.  Greening Industry carries and important and hopeful message in terms of explicit strategies for achieving sustainable development.

—Wallace Oates, Professor Economics, University of Maryland

I think Greening Industry will prove to be an important book for a number of reasons.  It is eminently realistic about environmental management in developing countries without being fatalistic.  It acknowledges that there are usually a host of barriers to the application of conventional pollution control policies in poor countries, but presents compelling evidence that innovative policies can and do work despite these barriers.  Finally, although the book marshals and impressive number of academic studies, the exposition is lively and accessible to a broad audience.

—Allen Blackman, Fellow, Quality of the Environment Division, Resources For the Future