Environmental Regulation and the History of Capitalism : The Role of Business from Stockholm 1972 to the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)

Tracking Business Involvement in Environmental Policies since the 1970s: Resistance, Issue-Framing, and Corporate Sustainability?Sandra Bott, Sabine Pitteloud, and Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl??Part 1: After 1970: The Business Counteroffensive??1. From the Margins to the Centre of Global Environmental Governance: International Business at the Stockholm (1972), Rio (1992) and Johannesburg (2002) Conferences?Robert Falkner??2. Between Pushback and Collaboration: The Oil Industry and the Challenges of Environmentalism and Resource Scarcity, 1970s?1980s?Odinn Melsted??3. “More harm than good”: Small Business and Climate Denialism in the United States?Benjamin C. Waterhouse??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?Mattias Nasman??5. Exxon and Climate Change: Navigating Internal Dissent in the Context of the Reagan Administration’s Environmental Deregulation Agenda?Audrey Loetscher??6. Shaping Environmental Impact Assessment: The Brazilian Electricity Companies’ Experience in Dam Construction During the 1970s?Nathalia Capellini??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?Tero Toivanen??8. ‘Tchernobale’ Reappraised: Technological Risk in Europe’s Post-Stockholm Environmental Politics?Lola Wilhelm??9. Capitalist Fictions: Environmentalism and the Swedish Industry’s Effort to Educate for Optimism and Uncertainty, 1968?1988?Kristoffer Ekberg??Epilogue?Glenda Sluga