Environmental Regulation and the History of Capitalism

This edited collection examines the historical role of business actors in climate and environmental governance since the 1970s. Through a compilation of recent, evidence-based historical research, it unveils the origins of contemporary challenges in regulating environmental pollution.

Autorentext

Sandra Bott is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Sabine Pitteloud is an Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at UniDistance Suisse, Switzerland.

Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl is an Associate Professor of International History at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Inhalt

Tracking Business Involvement in Environmental Policies since the 1970s: Resistance, Issue-Framing, and Corporate Sustainability Sandra Bott, Sabine Pitteloud, and Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl Part 1: After 1970: The Business Counteroffensive 1. From the Margins to the Center of Global Environmental Governance: International Business at the Stockholm (1972), Rio (1992), and Johannesburg (2002) Conferences Robert Falkner 2. Between Pushback and Collaboration: The Oil Industry and the Challenges of Environmentalism and Resource Scarcity, 1970s-1980s Odinn Melsted 3. "More harm than good": Small Business and Climate Denialism in the United States Benjamin C. Waterhouse Part 2: Businessmen as Environmental Experts 4. A Crack in the Limits: The Case of UNEP's Failed Motor Vehicle Seminar of 1976 in the Context of the Polycrisis Mattias Näsman 5. Exxon and Climate Change: Navigating Internal Dissent in the Context of the Reagan Administration's Environmental Deregulation Agenda Audrey Loetscher 6. Shaping Environmental Impact Assessment: The Brazilian Electricity Companies' Experience in Dam Construction during the 1970s Nathalia Capellini Part 3: Business Narratives about the Environmental Crisis 7. In Growth, Progress, and Technology We Trust: Free-Market Thinking and Neoliberal Environmentalism in Finland from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s Tero Toivanen 8. "Tchernobâle" Reappraised: Technological Risk in Europe's Post-Stockholm Environmental Politics Lola Wilhelm 9. Capitalist Fictions: Environmentalism and the Swedish Industry's Effort to Educate for Optimism and Uncertainty, 1968-1988 Kristoffer Ekberg Epilogue Glenda Sluga