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Business interests and the environmental crisis / edited by Kanchi Kohli and Manju Menon.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789351508618
  • 9351508617
  • 9351508595
  • 9789351508595
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Business interests and the environmental crisis.DDC classification:
  • 338.9/27 23
LOC classification:
  • HD75.6 .B8785 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: Green and Pink -- Section I Examining "Nature" in Business -- 1 Bringing Liquidity to Life: Markets for Ecosystem Servicesand the New Political Economy of Extinction -- 2 Claiming Benefits, Making Commodities -- 3 The Abstract Nature of Building -- 4 Coal Accounting: The Story of Fuel Kept Cheap -- Section II Democratic Governance of Nature -- 5 Value as a Justification in Water Resource Development -- 6 The Effectiveness and Equity of Payments for Reducing Forest Loss -- 7 Selling Nature: Narratives of Coercion, Resistance, and Ecology -- 8 Putting Peoplehood at the Center of the Green Economy -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.
Summary: A major contribution to understanding how environmental crisis is viewed by business enterprises and how this can be addressed, offering solutions to global and national anxieties.
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Includes index.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: Green and Pink -- Section I Examining "Nature" in Business -- 1 Bringing Liquidity to Life: Markets for Ecosystem Servicesand the New Political Economy of Extinction -- 2 Claiming Benefits, Making Commodities -- 3 The Abstract Nature of Building -- 4 Coal Accounting: The Story of Fuel Kept Cheap -- Section II Democratic Governance of Nature -- 5 Value as a Justification in Water Resource Development -- 6 The Effectiveness and Equity of Payments for Reducing Forest Loss -- 7 Selling Nature: Narratives of Coercion, Resistance, and Ecology -- 8 Putting Peoplehood at the Center of the Green Economy -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.

A major contribution to understanding how environmental crisis is viewed by business enterprises and how this can be addressed, offering solutions to global and national anxieties.

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