Environmental regulation and the history of capitalism : the role of business from Stockholm 1972 to the climate crisis / edited by Sandra Bott, Sabine Pitteloud, and Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bott, Sandra, editor.

Pitteloud, Sabine, editor.

Schaufelbuehl, Janick Marina, editor.

Series:

Routledge international studies in business history.

Routledge International Studies in Business History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; Abingdon, England : Routledge, [2025]

Summary:

This edited collection examines the historical role of business actors in climate and environmental governance since the 1970s. Through a compilation of recent, evidence-based historical research, it unveils the origins of contemporary challenges in regulating environmental pollution.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsements Page

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Tracking Business Involvement in Environmental Policies Since the 1970s: Resistance, Issue-Framing, and Corporate Sustainability

Part 1 After 1970: The Business Counteroffensive

1 From the Margins to the Center of Global Environmental Governance: International Business at the Stockholm (1972), Rio (1992), and Johannesburg (2002) Conferences

2 Between Pushback and Collaboration: The Oil Industry and the Challenges of Environmentalism and Resource Scarcity, 1970s-1980s

3 "More Harm than Good": Small Business and Climate Denialism in the United States

Part 2 Businessmen as Environmental Experts

4 A Crack in the Limits: The Case of UNEP's Failed Motor Vehicle Seminar of 1976 in the Context of the Polycrisis

5 Exxon and Climate Change: Navigating Internal Dissent in the Context of the Reagan Administration's Environmental Deregulation Agenda

6 Shaping Environmental Impact Assessment: The Brazilian Electricity Companies' Experience in Dam Construction During the 1970s

Part 3 Business Narratives About the Environmental Crisis

7 In Growth, Progress, and Technology We Trust: Free-Market Thinking and Neoliberal Environmentalism in Finland From the Mid-1970s to the Mid-1980s

8 "Tchernobâle" Reappraised: Technological Risk in Europe's Post-Stockholm Environmental Politics

9 Capitalist Fictions: Environmentalism and the Swedish Industry's Effort to Educate for Optimism and Uncertainty, 1968-1988

Epilogue

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-04-036028-9

1-04-036031-9

1-003-51549-5

9781003515494

OCLC:

1516988157