Different pathways to sustainability standard adoption
How local norms may be able to help drive the spread of voluntary programs – the case of the RSPO in Japan. By Hattaya...
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Jan 19, 2021
Counting Trees in the Hopes of Managing Forests – Technological solutions to palm oil deforestation?
By Isaac Caiger-Smith, Izabela Delabre and Kristjan Jespersen In recent years, companies dealing in global commodities – such as palm oil, soy and timber...
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Dec 6, 2020
Sustainability claims: In what sense are they performative?
By Lars Thøger Christensen The number of products advertised as “green” or climate neutral has exploded in recent years, according to several newspaper articles....
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Nov 27, 2020
Insecure work: rethinking precarity through Kenya’s tea plantations
By Hannah Elliott Over the last decade, the term ‘precarity’ has become ubiquitous in studies of work and labor, as jobs are increasingly characterized...
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I Am What I Pledge – The importance of value alignment and crowdfunder behavior
By Kristian Roed Nielsen Together with my colleague Julia Binder we recently published a paper on the role of values in driving crowdfunding backer...
Fresh Air: An Impact Story
By Lara Anne Hale What do fresh air, canaries, and research all have in common? Academics often humbly conduct and publish research, hoping but...
Building A Better Planet: Toward a Sustainable Post-COVID-19 Society
By Daniel C. Esty Covid-19 has dominated policy thinking across the world for several months – highlighting our vulnerability to unexpected threats, the fundamental...
Small, yet important – and still responsible. Reflections on SMEs and social responsibility in times of Covid-19
By Søren Jeppesen One thing seems to be clear by now – that we are all challenged by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic....
On the Ground: What CSR and sustainability standards fail to address
By Hannah Elliott In the fall of 2019, there was a flurry of news stories in the British media about political events in western...
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...
The Political Economy of the Olympics – Misconceptions about Sustainability
By Faith Hatani In the midst of the global coronavirus crisis, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Japanese government finally decided last month to...