Missing Links? Business History and Environmental Change

In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte: Economic history yearbook, Volume 50, Issue 2, p. 9-22

Abstract

Abstract
Business and the natural environment, economy and ecology, are commonly perceived as being irreconcilable opposites. This article evaluates the variables of this opposition and asks for differentiated concepts from business and environmental history. In doing so it analyzes the existing literature in both subdisciplines and looks at why they have been relatively isolated from each other. The authors advocate approaches that integrate business and environmental history and take ecological implications of business as serious as the commercial implications of dealing with nature.