Wonder Tech and the Institution of Gender
by Jeremy Moon “I didn’t realize that I was a woman until I went to the US.” This was the rather arresting comment of...
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Aug 1, 2018
Feeling the Pain
By Robin Porsfelt. While the recent US ’opioid crisis’ has been widely reported, a second, less recognized, crisis related to opioids has been taking...
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Jul 16, 2018
A framework for assessing the potential of behaviour change for global decarbonisation
By Kristian Steensen Nielsen Addressing climate change requires an urgent implementation of far-reaching solutions. Policy-makers and natural scientists have mainly offered supply-side solutions to...
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Jun 11, 2018
‘Just Sustainabilities’ in a World of Global Value Chains
By Stefano Ponte. What if we used our size and resources to make this country and this earth an even better place for all...
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A Taxonomy of Sustainable Business Model Patterns
By Florian Lüdeke-Freund & Sarah Carroux. In recent years, so-called “sustainable business models” are increasingly gaining in importance in both practice and research.[1] There...
Researchers in BLOXHUB seeking to improve indoor climate
by Lara Hale In the second week of May 2018, the architectural and design worlds were abuzz with reviews of the new green glass...
Making it to the World Heritage List: Envisioned and Hidden Effects
By Lotte Thomsen. UNESCO’s World Heritage designation of places around the world has the honorable purpose of taking responsibility. Taking responsibility for the preservation...
Entrepreneurship: The Solution to Africa’s Youth Unemployment Crisis?
By Thilde Langevang and Katherine V. Gough. Small-scale entrepreneurial activities currently provide livelihoods to a large proportion of the youth population in sub-Saharan Africa...
The Sustainable Development Goals: Elite Pluralism, not Democratic Governance
By Daniel Esser. Was the process leading up to the SDGs really an exercise in global democratic policy making? Although broad consultation efforts shaped...
When Good CSR Intentions With Communities Go Bad
By Rajiv Maher. Can companies get CSR efforts “right” by engaging in dialogue with communities, thus improve relations and their impacts? Reality shows that companies tend...
Another Inconvenient Truth: “Win-Win” Only Won’t Transform Our World
By Katherine Richardson. A green growth project can contribute to sustainable development, but this is by no means a given Characterized by a singular...