Christopher Wright (University of Sydney), Daniel Nyberg (New South Wales University of Newcastle)

Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the different ways that corporations engage with the climate crisis. Topics include climate change as business risk, corporate climate politics, the role of justification and compromise, managerial identity, and emotional reactions to climate change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781107435131
• ISBN-10: 1107435137
• Artikelnr.: 42968693

Autorenporträt

Chris Wright is a qualified accountant and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) with over 30 years' experience providing financial and IT advisory and risk management services. He worked for 16 years at KPMG, where he managed a number of IT due diligence reviews and was head of information risk training in the UK. He has also worked in a wide range of industry sectors including oil and gas, small and medium enterprises, public sector, aviation and travel.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Clive Hamilton
Acknowledgements
1. Climate change and corporate capitalism
2. Creative self-destruction and the incorporation of critique
3. Climate change and the corporate construction of risk
4. Corporate political activity and climate coalitions
5. Justification, compromise and corruption
6. Climate change, managerial identity and narrating the self
7. Emotions, corporate environmentalism and climate change
8. Political myths and pathways forward
9. Imagining alternatives
Appendix
References
Index.