strategy that is based on giving incentives to economic operators for their
sustainable behaviours including the acquisition of best available technology
(BAT) available on the market.
Such a strategy, on the other hand, cannot do without resorting to new models
of governance meant to guarantee concertation with those economic subjects
interested in the productive investments in the sector of water treatment as
well as, of course, with the businesses that have to comply with drainage
regulations.
A tangible example concerns the incentives to the businesses put into being by
the Campania Region, both by means of environmentally-targeted aids, and
through Integrated Projects for industrial districts intended to favour the
location of productive operations in appropriately infrastructured areas (by
means of the Productive Settlement Plans). For example, in the businesses
located along the banks of the river Sarno - the most polluted river of Europe
- the objective of the Region strategy is that of integrating infrastructural
planning with an industrial policy that gives incentives to sustainable
behaviours by testing new forms of cooperation amongst economic subjects
and models of “consortium-like” management of the district infrastructure.
Such an approach appears to be the only one likely to overcome the constraints
linked to the use of clean technology in productive processes, above all for
those SMEs that are unable to bear the costs of investments for the reduction
of their own polluting emissions. Indeed, in a logic of district it is possible to
give businesses incentives to equip themselves with commonly owned water
treatment or liquid waste disposal plants in a view to guaranteeing a greater
sustainability not only in terms of the environment, but also in terms of
economic sustainability of the production operations located on a given
territory.
4 CONCLUSIONS
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