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This book seeks to advance the understanding of how businesses may
adapt to climate change trends. Specifically, it focuses on two
general research questions: Firstly, how do businesses adapt to
chronic slow-onset nature adversity conditions linked to climate
change? Secondly, how do firms adapt to weather-related natural
disasters exacerbated by climate change? In the first part of the
book, the authors develop a conceptual framework in response to
these questions. In the second part, they test this framework using
multiple empirical studies involving large data analyses of: (a)
the U.S. western ski industry adaptation to warmer temperatures,
and (b) the effect of natural disasters on the foreign investment
of multinational corporations around the world. This book will
interest management and public policy students and scholars
researching successful business climate change adaptation
strategies, as well as business and non-profit organization leaders
and policy makers involved in developing and promoting such
effective strategies.
This book seeks to advance the understanding of how businesses may
adapt to climate change trends. Specifically, it focuses on two
general research questions: Firstly, how do businesses adapt to
chronic slow-onset nature adversity conditions linked to climate
change? Secondly, how do firms adapt to weather-related natural
disasters exacerbated by climate change? In the first part of the
book, the authors develop a conceptual framework in response to
these questions. In the second part, they test this framework using
multiple empirical studies involving large data analyses of: (a)
the U.S. western ski industry adaptation to warmer temperatures,
and (b) the effect of natural disasters on the foreign investment
of multinational corporations around the world. This book will
interest management and public policy students and scholars
researching successful business climate change adaptation
strategies, as well as business and non-profit organization leaders
and policy makers involved in developing and promoting such
effective strategies.
It is increasingly common for businesses to face public policies
and government regulation that demand some form of environmental or
social protection. These protective public policies have grown in
number, complexity, and stringency over the last few decades, not
only in industrialized countries but also in the developing world.
In this 2010 book, Jorge Rivera presents a theoretical framework
for understanding the relationship between protective public
policies and business compliance. This framework explains different
levels of business compliance in terms of three different factors:
the link between the stages of protective public policies and
different levels of business resistance, the effect of country
context, and the effect of firm-level characteristics. The second
part of the book supports and elaborates on this framework by
presenting empirical studies that examine two voluntary
environmental programs: the US ski industry's Sustainable Slopes
Program and the Certification for Sustainable Tourism in Costa
Rica.
Protecting the environment is often not the primary objective of
businesses. As the world has become more environmentally aware, the
necessity of environmental regulations becomes apparent. Voluntary
Environmental Programs: A Policy Perspective examines different
approaches to environmental protection in business. Environmental
improvements on the part of industry often result from government
regulations that command certain action on the part of industry and
then control how well they perform. An alternative approach is
Voluntary Environmental Agreements (VEA), where firms voluntarily
commit to make certain environmental improvements individually, as
part of an industry association, or under the guidance of a
government entity. For example, many new initiatives targeted
towards climate change originate from companies that voluntarily
commit to reduce their carbon output or "footprint." Voluntary
Environmental Programs (VEP) provides an overview of current
research on VEPs, looking at issues such as what motivates firms to
participate, how a VEP structure affects a company's efficiency and
credibility with stakeholders, and who monitors compliance of
participants. This current work examines how a firm's environmental
performance over time compares with VEP commitments. This book also
discusses the particular considerations for VEPs in developing
countries, where information flows and regulatory oversight
capacities differ from the U.S.
It is increasingly common for businesses to face public policies
and government regulation that demand some form of environmental or
social protection. These protective public policies have grown in
number, complexity, and stringency over the last few decades, not
only in industrialized countries but also in the developing world.
In this 2010 book, Jorge Rivera presents a theoretical framework
for understanding the relationship between protective public
policies and business compliance. This framework explains different
levels of business compliance in terms of three different factors:
the link between the stages of protective public policies and
different levels of business resistance, the effect of country
context, and the effect of firm-level characteristics. The second
part of the book supports and elaborates on this framework by
presenting empirical studies that examine two voluntary
environmental programs: the US ski industry's Sustainable Slopes
Program and the Certification for Sustainable Tourism in Costa
Rica.
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