Description: Business and Climate Change Governance : South Africa in Comparative Perspective, Hardcover by Börzel, Tanja A. (EDT); Hamann, Ralph (EDT), ISBN 1137302739, ISBN-13 9781137302731, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Why do business organisations contribute to climate change governance in areas of limited statehood? In many countries, governments are too weak and often also not willing to set and enforce climate change regulations. While companies have the capacities to fill the resulting governance gap, conventional wisdom expects them to take advantage by relocating their production sites in order to escape strict national regulation. Studies on South Africa, Kenya and Germany demonstrate that business contributions to the mitigation and adaptation to climate change vary significantly between countries, sectors and firms. In order to explain these variations, the contributors bring together two important literatures that rarely speak to each other - governance andbusiness management - arguing that the threat of public regulation has an important role in motivating business efforts"--
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Book Title: Business and Climate Change Governance : South Africa in Comparat
Number of Pages: Xvii, 218 Pages
Publication Name: Business and Climate Change Governance : South Africa in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan The Limited
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Business Ethics, Environmental Economics, General, Global Warming & Climate Change, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 142.5 Oz
Author: Ralph Hamann
Item Length: 9.7 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Science, Business & Economics
Item Width: 5.7 in
Series: Governance and Limited Statehood Ser.
Format: Hardcover
