Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship

by Geoffrey Jones

Book Overview

Are profits and sustainability compatible?

This book brings unique perspectives to this key debate by exploring the history of green entrepreneurship since the nineteenth century, and its spread globally in industries including renewable energy, organic food, natural beauty, ecotourism, recycling, architecture, and finance.

The book uses the lens of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who defied convention and imagined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198845650
• ISBN13: 9780198845652
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"