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Making Microchips: Policy, Globalization, and Economic Restructuring in the Semiconductor Industry(Making Microchips)

Making Microchips: Policy, Globalization, and Economic Restructuring in the Semiconductor Industry(Making Microchips)


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Jan Mazurek examines the environmental and economic implications of the computer microchip industry's exodus from California's Silicon Valley to New Mexico, Virginia, Ireland and Taiwan. Globalization, economic restructuring and changing manufacturing processes in this rapidly growing industry present difficult new questions for environmental policy. Mazurek challenges the assumptions of US policies designed to promote the competitiveness of domestic microchip makers, arguing that these initiatives fail to acknowledge how economic and organizational changes within the industry collide with and often confound efforts to monitor and manage pollution from chemicals used in microchip manufacturing. The text describes the environmental by-products of chipmaking, including soil contamination, air and water pollution, and damage to human health. Applying insights from economic geography to questions of how and where companies organize production, the author demonstrates how Silicon Valley played a pivotal role in the development of the microchip. Pairing federal environmental data with structural and geographic information on the six firms that continue to build water fabs in the United States, Mazurek argues that reorganization and relocation of manufacturing facilities divert attention from trends in toxic emissions and how they complicate public and private efforts to improve the industry's environmental performance.

About the Author :
Jan Mazurek directs the Center for Innovation and the Environment at the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington, DC.

Review :
A timely study of how current regulations and initiatives are addressing environmental concerns in the semiconductor industry.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780262632706
  • Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 261
  • Series Title: Making Microchips
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 354 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0262632705
  • Publisher Date: 24 Jan 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: Urban and Industrial Environments
  • Sub Title: Policy, Globalization, and Economic Restructuring in the Semiconductor Industry
  • Width: 152 mm


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