Climate Activism - How Communities Take Renewable Energy Actions Across Business

Analyzing the transformation of climate activism in a rapidly changing political landscape, this book traces everyday renewable energy actions within a growing 'epistemic community', dispersed across organizational boundaries and domains. It will be of interest to social science scholars of business, renewable energy and sustainability transitions.

List of contents

Preface; Introduction; 1. Boundaryless Activism; 2. The Activist-Business-State Conglomeration; 3. Activism and Its Collective Force; 4. Epistemic Community; 5. Climate Activism at Vattenfall; 6. Climate Activism via Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises; 7. Climate Activism in Governmental Authorities; 8. Climate Activism via Citizen Groups; 9. New Ways of Knowing; 10. Horizontal Organising; References; Appendix.

About the author

Annika Skoglund is Associate Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research interests and teaching experience is closely linked to interdisciplinary approaches within climate social science and alternative entrepreneurship. She has published in journals such as Renewable Energy, Sustainable Development, Human Relations, and Organization Studies.Steffen Böhm is Professor in Organisation & Sustainability at University of Exeter Business School, UK, where he teaches a large Business & Climate Change module. His research focuses on the political economy & ecology of the sustainability transition. He has published widely in international journals such as Organization Studies, Business Ethics Quarterly and Academy of Management Perspectives. He is the Environment Section Editor at the Journal of Business Ethics and has recently co-edited the book Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis (Open Book Publishers, 2021).

Summary

Analyzing the transformation of climate activism in a rapidly changing political landscape, this book traces everyday renewable energy actions within a growing 'epistemic community', dispersed across organizational boundaries and domains. It will be of interest to social science scholars of business, renewable energy and sustainability transitions.

Product details

• Authors: Steffen (University of Exeter) Boehm, Steffen Böhm, Annika Skoglund, Annika (Uppsala Universitet Skoglund
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781108482646
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48264-6
• No. of pages: 225
• Series: Business, Value Creation, and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Sustainability, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, Business ethics & social responsibility, International business, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Conservation of the environment, Business ethics and social responsibility, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Environmentalist, Conservationist & Green Organizations, Environmentalist, conservationist and Green organizations