Business and climate change governance : South Africa in comparative perspective

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The work Business and climate change governance : South Africa in comparative perspective represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Business and climate change governance : South Africa in comparative perspective

Title remainder

South Africa in comparative perspective

Statement of responsibility

Edited by Tanja A. Borzel, Ralph Hamann

Contributor

• Borzel, Tanja A
• Hamann, Ralph

Subject

• Business enterprises -- Environmental aspects
• Climatic changes -- Government policy

Language

eng

Summary

How and why do business organisations contribute to climate change governance? The contributors' findings on South Africa, Kenya and Germany demonstrate that business contributions to the mitigation and adaptation to climate change vary significantly.

Member of

• Governance and limited statehood
• Online access with purchase: Palgrave Connect (International Relations & Development Collection)

Cataloging source

UK-WkNB

Dewey number

363.738745250968

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Summary expansion

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