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Climate change is the greatest market failure in world history and thus the most urgent challenge in the world of business for the foreseeable future. This book brings together experts to shed light on the historical impact of business on climate change and of climate change on business.
List of contents
Introduction. Climate Change and Business: A New Perspective and Research Agenda
Teresa da Silva Lopes, Paul Duguid and Robert Fredona 1. Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change
Geoffrey Jones and Ann-Kristin Bergquist 2. Cars and Climate Change: The Historical Political Economy of a Green Transition
Grace Ballor and Mattias Näsman 3. Pollution and Business: Case Studies from Modern Chinese Business History
Ghassan Moazzin 4. Forests for Sale: Multinationals and Civil Society's Oversight in the Palm Oil Agribusiness
Shakila Yacob 5. Hurricanes and Floods: The Case of the US and the National Flood Insurance Policy
Natalie Rauscher and Welf Werner 6. Rainfall Seasonality, Droughts, and Business
Tirthankar Roy and Chinmay Tumbe 7. From Pastoral to Industrial Agriculture: Global Food Chains and the Drivers of Climate Change
Simon Mowatt 8. Climate Change and the Business (History) of Energy
Marten Boon 9. Climate Change and Corporate Adaptation: The Evolution of the Wine Industry in the Andes
Teresa da Silva Lopes and Andrea Lluch 10. Towards a New Type of Tourism? From Conventional Tourism to Ecotourism in the Alps
Laurent Tissot 11. Climate Change and the Insurance Industry: The Long Road to the UNEP 1995 Insurance Statement
Niels Viggo Haueter 12. Business Facing Activism: Organized Business and Civil Society Movements in Germany and Switzerland since the 1970s
Sabine Pitteloud 13. From Whitewashing to Greenwashing (and Back Again)
Paul Duguid and Teresa da Silva Lopes 14. The Construction of Climate as a Business Risk through ESG and Sustainable Finance
Judith Stroehle 15. Big Business and Climate Change Litigation in the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
Bart Elmore
About the author
Teresa da Silva Lopes is Professor of International Business and Business History at the School for Business and Society, and Director of the Centre for the Evolution of Global Business and Institutions (CEGBI) at the University of York, UK.
Paul Duguid is Adjunct Professor Emeritus in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Robert Fredona is Research Associate at Harvard Business School, USA.
Summary
Climate change is the greatest market failure in world history and thus the most urgent challenge in the world of business for the foreseeable future. This book brings together experts to shed light on the historical impact of business on climate change and of climate change on business.
