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Fashionopolis : the price of fast fashion & the future of clothes
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ISBN: 1789546052 Year: 2019 Publisher: London Apollo Library

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An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry - and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it.


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Greening aid? : understanding the environmental impact of development assistance
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ISBN: 0199582793 0191526770 9786611852511 1281852511 0191707473 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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Every year, billions of dollars of environmental aid flow from the rich governments of the North to the poor governments of the South. Why do donors provide this aid? What do they seek to achieve? How effective is the aid given? And does it always go to the places of greatest environmental need?From the first Earth Summit in Stockholm in 1972 to the G8 Gleneagles meeting in 2005, the issue of the impact of aid on the global environment has been the subject of vigorous protest and debate.


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Green Capitalism? : Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 0812293886 0812249011 Year: 2017 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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At a time when the human impact on the environment is more devastating than ever, business initiatives frame the quest to "green" capitalism as the key to humanity's long-term survival. Indeed, even before the rise of the environmental movement in the 1970s, businesses sometimes had reasons to protect parts of nature, limit their production of wastes, and support broader environmental reforms. In the last thirty years, especially, many businesses have worked hard to reduce their direct and indirect environmental footprint. But are these efforts exceptional, or can capitalism truly be environmentally conscious?Green Capitalism? offers a critical, historically informed perspective on building a more sustainable economy. Written by scholars of business history and environmental history, the essays in this volume consider the nature of capitalism through historical overviews of twentieth-century businesses and a wide range of focused case studies. Beginning early in the century, contributors explore the response of business leaders to environmental challenges in an era long before the formation of the modern regulatory state. Moving on to midcentury environmental initiatives, scholars analyze failed business efforts to green products and packaging-such as the infamous six-pack ring-in the 1960s and 1970s. The last section contains case studies of businesses that successfully managed greening initiatives, from the first effort by an electric utility to promote conservation, to the environmental overhaul of a Swedish mining company, to the problem of household waste in pre-1990 West Germany. Ranging in geographic scope from Europe to the United States, Green Capitalism? raises questions about capitalism in different historical, sociocultural, and political contexts.Contributors: Hartmut Berghoff, Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Brian C. Black, William D. Bryan, Julie Cohn, Leif Fredrickson, Hugh S. Gorman, Geoffrey Jones, David Kinkela, Roman Köster, Joseph A. Pratt, Adam Rome, Christine Meisner Rosen.

The global commons : an introduction
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ISBN: 1597267627 1417539380 9781597267625 9781417539383 1351544039 9781351544030 1559635509 1559635517 9781559635509 9781559635516 1351544012 1315086417 1853835633 1853835641 1351544020 9781351544016 9781853835636 9781853835643 Year: 1998 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Island Press,


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Fashionopolis : the price of fast fashion - and the future of clothes
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ISBN: 9781789546064 1789546060 9781789546071 1789546079 9781789546057 1789546052 Year: 2019 Publisher: London Head of Zeus

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