Environmental Regulation and the History of Capitalism The Role of Business from Stockholm 1972 to the Climate Crisis

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 Centre 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

Biography

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.

“This collection will contribute extensively to both our understanding of corporate responses to environmental regulation and the ways in which future debates ought to be fashioned. All of the [chapters] are well researched and the editors provide an extensive synthesis that summarise the key issues.”

John Wilson, Northumbria University, UK

“[This is] an innovative book which explores the crux between capitalism and environmental protection, with new empirical evidence on how companies not only thwarted, but also shaped and largely co-created certain environmental legislation.”

Laurent Warlouzet, Sorbonne University, France