To stay or to go: Corporate complicity in human rights abuses after the coup d’état in Myanmar
By Verena Girschik & Htwe Htwe Thein ◦ 2 min read ◦ Foreign investors in Myanmar have come under increasingly intense pressure to cut ties...
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Jun 10, 2022
Corporate sanctions in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Summary of the discussion with Sophia Opatska at CBS ◦ 8 min read ◦ This blog post is a repost and has first been published by UCU Business...
Apr 13, 2022
CBS Permahaven: A new campus chapter
By Isabel Fróes and Maribel Blasco ◦ 2 min read ◦ Sustainability – finding ways to walk the talk We report here on a new...
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Jan 19, 2022
Are sustainable and healthy diets always compatible? Needs for an emic-oriented cultural research on sustainable consumption
By Fumiko Kano Glückstad ◦ 6 min read ◦ It is widely acknowledged that a plant-based diet is healthier than an animal-based diet (Willett, et...
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The fear of becoming the hotspot of infectious diseases: Who is concerned and why?
By Fumiko Kano Glückstad ◦ 4 min read ◦ Denmark is opening the borders for tourists from our neighboring countries in Northern Europe after a...
Impact of COVID-19 on mortality inequalities: The case of France
By Clément Brébion ◦ 3 min read ◦ Despite an unprecedented worldwide decline in mortality over the last century, a substantial income gradient in life...
Arguing for Climate Adaptation
By Stella Whittaker ◦ 3 min read ◦ This month saw the publication of the Climate Policy Initiative’s (CPI) long awaited analysis of climate...
Innovating Under Pressure – Grassroots’ social and distributed manufacturing during the pandemic
By Isabel Fróes As Bowie almost made a prediction when he sang in his lyrics from 1981: ‘It’s the terror of knowing what this world...
Delivering and Financing Better Societies
How can cities self-finance environmental and social solutions? By Luise Noring Every week, more than three million people move into cities looking for places...
How the pandemic can reset cities and transform aspects of urban mobility
By Isabel Froes Cities are hard and complex systems. With their defined policies, grids and routes, they offer limited space for experimentation, with a...
How to make food systems more resilient: Try Behavioural Food Policies
By Lucia A. Reisch The vision of healthy and sustainable food systems that facilitate appropriate food choices by individuals is gaining momentum in practice...