Environmental Policy in South Africa

Abstract

The profit orientation of business and environmental concerns are often considered to be mutually incompatible. The environmental impact of a firm’s operation is a classical field of contestation. It is subject to extensive regulation in the OECD world. Over the past 10 years environmental responsibility has in fact become one of the key aspects in the discourse on a corporate social responsibility that extends firms’ environmental responsibilities beyond compliance with state regulation (Auld et al. 2008, Delmas 2002, Hoffman 2000, Hoffman 1997, Prakash 2000, Reinhardt et al. 2008).