Green capitalism? : business and the environment in the twentieth century /

At a time when the human impact on the environment is more devastating than ever, business initiatives frame the quest to "green" capitalism as the key to humanity's long-term survival. Indeed, even before the rise of the environmental movement in the 1970s, businesses sometimes had r...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Berghoff, Hartmut (Editor), Rome, Adam, 1959- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Edition:1st edition.
Series:Hagley perspectives on business and culture.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Environmentalism > Economic aspects > History > 20th century.
Capitalism > Environmental aspects > History > 20th century.
Business enterprises > Environmental aspects > History > 20th century.
Environmental policy > Economic aspects > History > 20th century.
Environnementalisme > Aspect économique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Entreprises > Aspect de l'environnement > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Aspect économique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Business enterprises > Environmental aspects
Capitalism > Environmental aspects
Environmental policy > Economic aspects
Environmentalism > Economic aspects
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ecology of commerce: environmental history and the challenge of building a sustainable economy / Adam Rome
  • Shades of green: a business-history perspective on eco-capitalism / Hartmut Berghoff
  • Role of businesses in constructing systems of environmental governance / Hugh S. Gorman
  • Business leadership in the movement to regulate industrial air pollution in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America / Christine Meisner Rosen
  • "Constructive and not destructive development": permanent uses of resources in the American South / William D. Bryan
  • Utilities as conservationists? the paradox of electrification during the progressive era in North America / Julie Cohn
  • Plastic six-pack rings: the business and politics of an environmental problem / David Kinkela
  • Rise and fall of an ecostar: green technology innovation and marketing as regulatory obstruction / Leif Fredrickson
  • Dilemmas of going green: environmental strategies in the Swedish mining company Boliden, 1960/2000 / Ann-Kristin Bergquist
  • Private companies and the recycling of household waste in West Germany, 1965/1990 / Roman Køste
  • Kill-a-watt: the greening of Consolidated Edison in the 1970s / Joseph A. Pratt
  • Entrepreneurship, policy, and the geography of wind energy / Geoffrey Jones
  • Driving change: the winding road to greener automobiles / Brian C. Black.

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