Creative self-destruction: corporate responses to climate change as political myths

Environmental Politics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 205-223

  Wright, Christopher ^a   Nyberg, Daniel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate change; climate politics; corporate environmentalism; creative destruction; political myths

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; ENVIRONMENTALISM; GREENHOUSE GAS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84896700180     PISSN: 09644016     EISSN: 17438934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2013.867175     Document Type: Article

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