This volume brings together microeconomics studies on firms' eco and economic performance both in the industrial and service sector; by considering a sector based perspective rooted mainly in the exploitation of NAMEA data; at regional level, and a macroeconomic analysis of the environment, income and welfare.

This book provides a fully integrated study of the links between environmental efficiencies, economic performances and innovation.

Environmental policy is acknowledged as a major driver of innovation, as well as changes made within firms, traditional market-based factors and evolutionary effects. The approaches taken by the various authors vary widely and include:

- Analyses of survey data including panel data and Bayesian techniques

- Analysis of microeconomic and macroeconomic factors

- An interweaving of merge of environmental, economic, socio-economic and policy indicators

The analysis presented is intrinsically related, at this macro level of analysis, with the literature on delinking and environmental Kuznets curves and the applications studied are fully international.