Handbook of Business and Climate ChangeRobert G. HansenLabel: Edward Elgar Publishing LtdDescription: Summarizing the current state of knowledge on the links between business and climate change this timely Handbook analyzes how businesses contribute to and are affected by climate change looking closely at their centrality in developing and deploying solutions to address this problem.Contributions from a global collection of scholars and practitioners explore a broad range of key industries’ impacts and responses to climate change examining corporate strategy and leadership in the climate economy functional perspectives and corporate practice and climate finance. Chapters use diverse case studies to analyze climate-related business issues including supply chain management decarbonization consumer decision-making and climate-related financial investments. The Handbook delves deeper into how businesses perceive the issue of climate change how they are affected by and engage with it as well as the impact they have and what this impact costs. Forward-thinking it concludes with reflections from the contributors on what the future holds for businesses and climate change.Covering matters relating to finance economics marketing operations strategy leadership and communications this interdisciplinary Handbook will prove invaluable to students and scholars in business management sustainability and environmental studies as well as to sustainability officers (and their staff) in corporations. Addressing as it does a wide range of climate-related issues from the corporate standpoint it will also prove to be a useful resource for policymakers concerned with enabling solutions to climate change.
