Business and climate change governance : South Africa in comparative perspective /
"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, c...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : |
Publication Dates: | 2013. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Governance and limited statehood series
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Summary: |
"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 and business management - arguing that the threat of public regulation has an important role in motivating business efforts"-- |
Carrier Form: | xvii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9781137302731 (hardback) : 1137302739 (hardback) |
Index Number: | HD30 |
CLC: |
X196 F279.47 |
Call Number: | F279.47/B979 |
Contents: |
Business Contributions to Climate Change Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood: Introduction / Climate Change Policies in the Car Industry: Asset Specificity as a Driver of Internal Innovation / Renewable Energy Incentives Across Varying levels of Statehood / Voluntary Collective Commitment: the Case of Business and Energy Efficiency in South Africa / Business Contributions to Climate Change Adaptation -- From Coping to Transformation? Insights from South Africa and Germany / Adaptation to Climate Change: An Investigation into Woolworths' Water Management Measures / Insurance, Climate-risk and the Barriers to Change / Of Culture and Religion: Insurance Regulation and the Informal Economy in a South African City / Business and Climate Change Governance: Conclusions / |