Green capitalism? : business and the environment in the twentieth century
Record details
- ISBN: 9780812249019
- ISBN: 0812249011
- ISBN: 9780812293883
- ISBN: 0812293886
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 298 pages) : illustrations
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Computer data. - Edition: 1st edition.
- Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 K�ste -- 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. |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
Language Note: | In English. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by JSTOR. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. History. |