Cleaner Production: Myth and Reality

Cleaner production is considered the ideal solution
to environmental problems as it reduces pollutants
and at the same time improves product quality,
reduce raw materials and energy inputs. While the
objectives of cleaner production, that is a better
product at the lowest inputs, have been always been
the ultimate goals of inventors and investors
throughout human history, long before the term
cleaner production was coined, the intervention of
the international political system in promoting
cleaner production in developing countries has been
unprecedented. The author examined the
problems, constraints and implications of the
political intervention in the development and
applications of cleaner production to environmental
management especially in developing countries. The
scientific-political processes affecting the success
and failures of cleaner production are the similar
scientific-political processes affecting a wider
range of environmental issues and the author could
not help but touch on those
issues. The more dogmatic the scientific-political
discourse have become the further we are in finding
real solutions to the real environmental problems.