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Copyright © Peter Dauvergne 2018
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First published in 2018 by Polity Press
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-2404-4
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Names: Dauvergne, Peter, author.
Title: Will big business destroy our planet? / Peter Dauvergne.
Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2018] | Series: Environmental futures | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017042180 (print) | LCCN 2017050832 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509524044 (Epub) | ISBN 9781509524006 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509524013 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Big business--Environmental aspects. | Sustainable development. | Social responsibility of business.
Classification: LCC HC79.E5 (ebook) | LCC HC79.E5 D34634 2018 (print) | DDC 363.7/011--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017042180
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I am grateful to Louise Knight at Polity Press for inspiring this book, Nekane Tanaka Galdos at Polity Press for editorial assistance, and to Michaela Pedersen-Macnab for her adept research support. I am also thankful for the perceptive feedback from Polity’s anonymous reviewers for this book. Jane Lister, my coauthor for the books Timber (2011) and Eco-Business (2013), and Genevieve LeBaron, my coauthor for the book Protest Inc. (2014), deserve special mention here, as their insights into the environmental and social consequences of big business have greatly influenced my thinking over the past decade.
A grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada supported the research for this book (Corporations and the Politics of Environmental Activism in the Global South, reference number 435–2014–0115).