What have corporations got to do with it? A political economy approach to organizations and climate change

• Main Author: RIEGER, Annika Marie
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Place and Environment; Political Economy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4112
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Ecological issues are often seen as only one of the many “problems” societies face today, even though they go deep and affect everything – from physical disruption and displacement to perhaps more subtle long-term changes in temperature, flora, and fauna that alter the face of the planet and the norms of everyday life. As a result of this view, the study of the environment has been siloed into the realm of “environmental sciences” with a few “environmental fill-in-the-social-science-blank” subfields scattered about. This is not to say that only “environmental” problems are important, but that across all disciplines and subfields, greater attention needs to be paid to these issues – especially to the ways in which environmental problems intersect with other social problems, including those of race, gender, and class.