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This 10 page paper discusses environmental regulations and their impact on business, as well as the impact of business on the environment. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Business Practices and Environmental Regulations Research Compiled for The Paper
Store, Inc. by K. Von Huben 5/2010 Please Introduction The relationship between business and the environment is subject to a great
deal of debate. On one hand, business people claim that obeying all the regulations can be onerous, and may eventually force them to make cuts or cease operations entirely, a
persuasive argument in a weak economy. On the other hand, environmentalists point out that natural resources are finite, not infinite, and we must care for them if we are to
thrive and leave a legacy for the future. This paper considers the relationship between environmental regulations and business, and the impact of business on the environment. Discussion The obvious example
of a horrific environmental impact is the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It is so vast and so damaging that its full effects will probably not be
known for years. Well come back to BP later in the paper. But first, what about environmental regulations in general? Alan Rugman and Alain Verbeke address precisely this in an
essay entitled "Corporate Strategies and Environmental Regulations." The authors notes that people all over the world have become concerned with the impact of business activities on the environment, and that
in response to this concern, governments everywhere have increased their environmental regulations. There are five levels of regulation: "multilateral (e.g., GATT/WTO), regional (e.g., EU/NAFTA), national, subnational and municipal" (Rugman and
Verbeke 301). Businesses have to learn to operate in this environment no matter what the level of regulation is that they face. Rugman and Verbeke found that although pressures from
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