Is it a right policy to focus on SDGs during Economic Slowdown?
By Anirudh Agrawal and Ashish Tyagi Economic problems of India were not addressed either in the 2019 electoral debates or in the recent annual...
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Nov 26, 2019
How SDGs help us see buildings through a different lens
By Ingrid Reumert Despite a lot of focus on climate change recently, the impact of one ‘hidden climate’ on people’s lives often goes unnoticed...
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Nov 18, 2019
Regulating 300,000 Years – Nuclear Waste, Sustainability and the Need to Talk to the Distant Future
By Andreas Rasche Whenever we think about regulating sustainability problems, we usually think about the here and now or at least about the not...
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Nov 7, 2019
Towards a Realization of Sustainability Ambitions?
By Lars Thøger Christensen Governments are increasingly being sued by citizens and NGOs for not living up to their sustainability ambitions. Recently, for example,...
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We Need To Pay More Attention To Business Associations
Despite their key role in both national and international affairs, business associations remain strangely absent from academic discourse, teaching and research on corporate responsibility and sustainability. We clearly need to pay more attention to business associations.
Sustainability’s Infrastructure
The project SUSTEIN is looking at localized translations of transnational sustainability standards in Kenya, the United Arab Emirates and corporate headquarters in Europe.
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...
The not-so-sharing economy
By Attila Marton With the rise of Airbnb and Uber into the elite club of Silicon Valley superstar firms, the sharing economy has become...
Big fuss about a big policy plan – and why this matters for corporate social responsibility: the Chinese social credit system
By Dieter Zinnbauer & Hans Krause Hansen. Few statist policy blueprints on matters pretty technical have captured our collective imagination as has the Chinese...
Droned
by Glen Whelan. A Military Heritage A drone is an unmanned aircraft. Long used to refer to male honeybees – whose main function is...
Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives and Legitimacy
By Mikkel Kruuse. Which groups of actors typically drive the standard development within Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives (MSIs) and why? Power imbalances between actors within MSIs...