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Will Big Business Destroy Our Planet?

Peter Dauvergne











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Acknowledgments

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).