Varieties of green business industries, nations and time
The concept of green business originated recently, but the phenomenon has a longer history which offers many lessons for today and the future. This book provides rich new empirical evidence on green business as it examines its variation between industries and nations, and over time. It demonstrates...
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Northampton, MA
Edward Elgar Pub., Inc.
2018, 2018
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Contents: Preface
- 1. Varieties of business responsibility
- 2. Business and waste management in Europe before 1945 (with Andrew Spadafora)
- 3. "Power from sunshine": The business of solar energy before 1990
- 4. Financing sustainability (with Emily Grandjean and Andrew Spadafora)
- 5. Organic food and national image: the paradox of New Zealand (with Simon Mowatt)
- 6. Creating the market for organic wine: sulfites, certification, and green values (with Emily Grandjean)
- 7. Creating ecotourism in Costa Rica (with Andrew Spadafora)
- 8. Alternative paths of green entrepreneurship: Yvon Chouinard, Doug Tompkins and Kristine McDivitt Tompkins (with Ben Gettinger)
- Postscript
- Index