Justifying business responses to climate change: Discursive strategies of similarity and diff erence

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1819-1835

  Nyberg, Daniel ^a   Wright, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Corporate environmentalism; Discourse; Justifi cation; Legitimation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORPORATE STRATEGY; ENVIRONMENTALISM; SOCIAL CONFLICT; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84866403613     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a44565     Document Type: Article

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