Do Tourists Like Nudges?
By Elizabeth Cooper ◦ 4 min read ◦ Nudges have been successfully implemented in various social settings, as a method of guiding people’s decisions in...
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Jun 27, 2022
Constructing Social Portfolios: A Quantitative versus Screening Approach
By Alina Hofer, Lea Katharina Kasper & Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 5 min read ◦ When we talk about ESG, one could argue that there...
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Jun 24, 2022
Corporate social responsibility and societal governance
By Jeremy Moon ◦ 3 min read ◦ Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine reminds us that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is both a reflection of the times...
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Jun 23, 2022
Do nudges work in organisations?
By Leonie Decrinis ◦ 3 min read ◦ Introduced by Thaler and Sunstein in 2008, nudges have become popular policy tools to change the behaviour of...
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Concepts
How Should Arctic Drilling Be Defined? The 3 Key Problems with Formulating Investment Exclusions
By Zuzanna Lewandowska and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 7 min read ◦ Oil and gas development in the Arctic has long been a subject of...
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...
Negative Capability: Sustaining our discomfort towards a collectively responsible society
By Tali Padan ◦ 3 min read ◦ In my PhD studies, I work with a different type of sustainability. Not the sustainability of carbon footprints...
“A Little Less Unsustainable Is Not the Same as Sustainable” – Why Including Fossil Gas and Nuclear Power Will Harm the EU Taxonomy
By Andreas Rasche ◦ 3 min read ◦ The EU Taxonomy reflects a classification system that assesses whether certain economic activities are environmentally sustainable. Without...
Climate Change and Magical Thinking
By Steen Vallentin ◦ 7 min read ◦ COP26, the 26th UN Climate Change Conference, has just ended. It was supposed to be ‘the next...
White People and the Animals they Love
Book Review of Saving Endangered Species: Lessons in Wildlife Conservation from Indianapolis Prize Winners By Lisa Ann Richey ◦ 6 min read ◦ This book review has...
Are we asking the wrong questions in corporate social responsibility (CSR) research?
By Rikke Rønholt Albertsen ◦ 3 min read ◦ The sustainability contributions of business are under increased scrutiny in society. Observations of greenwashing, blue-washing, corporate hypocrisy, and...