The Business Of Global Environmental Governance

The Business of Global Environmental Governance takes a political economy approach tounderstanding the role of business in global environmental politics. The book's contributors -- froma range of disciplines including international political economy, management, and political science-- view the evolution of international environmental governance as a dynamic interplay of economicstructures, business strategies, and political processes. By providing comparative insights to theresponses of business to major international environmental issues, the book illuminates the waysbusiness activity shapes and is shaped by global environmental policies. It moves beyond the usualemphasis on state actors and formal regimes, instead focusing on empirical and theoreticalcontributions that examine the reciprocal relationship between corporate strategy and internationalenvironmental governance.After developing a theoretical framework for understanding the role ofbusiness in environmental governance, the book provides empirical studies of business strategiesacross a range of cases, from formal regimes to combat climate change and ozone depletion to moreinformal and private regimes for tropical logging and the ISO 14000 environmental managementstandards. These case studies demonstrate the key roles of business, markets, and private actors inshaping international environmental institutions and constructing new forms of governance.