The Globe Forum has published the Nominees for the 2009 Globe Award for Sustainability Research. Globe Award’s Sustainability Research Award is given to original research which successfully contributes to increased knowledge on sustainability.
The 2009 Nominees are:
1.Bengt Sture Ershag, Scandinavian Enviro Systems AB for an Innovation called Carbonizing by Forced Convection, a technology that thermally breaks down any organic material in a controllable environmental friendly closed system.
2. Dr. Candice Stevens, Sustainable Development Advisor at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for research focusing on “governance practices for sustainable development, identifying good practices in National Sustainable Development Strategies and approaches for Institutionalising Sustainable Development.”
3.Lisbeth Segerlund, Stockholm University, Dept. of Economic History, Section of International Relations for research focusing on the development of corporate social responsibility understood as a new international norm and how this norm has become an issue on the international agenda.”
4. Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) for developing a light source which runs on locally produced fuel, is environmentally friendly and produces bright light equivalent to that from a 100 W electric bulb.
5. PhD Susanne Arvidsson, School of Economics and Management, Lund for a research project focusing on “how companies work with Environmental, Social and Ethical responsibility and corporate Governance issues, how they communicate their achievements to stakeholders and how these issues can be worked more efficiently on.”
The Nominees for the Sustainability Innovation Award and Sustainability Reporting Award can be found here.