Business and the Natural Environment: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management

ISBN-10
0415608724
ISBN-13
9780415608725
Series
Business and the Natural Environment
Category
Business
Language
English
Published
2012
Authors
Andrew J. Hoffman, Susse Georg

Description

Over the past four decades, the concept of corporate environmentalism has passed through multiple iterations. Prompted by landmark environmental events such the publication of Rachel Carson' s Silent Spring (1962), the Santa Barbara oil spill, the Cuyahoga River fire, Love Canal, Bhopal, the Exxon Valdez spill, the Brent Spar controversy, and many other horrifying disasters, conceptions of corporate environmentalism as mere regulatory compliance gradually gave way to newer management conceptions of ' pollution prevention' , ' ...

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