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Business Adaptation to Climate Change
Blog Action Day is the right moment to share the findings of recent research on climate change!
The Network for Business Sustainability has looked at over 200 studies since 1997 on climate change adaptation.The research project’s findings are structured in four reports: concepts&theories, current practices, case studies and tools, knowledge gaps&future research and I will present [...]
Books on CSR
1.Professionals´ Perspectives of Corporate Social Responsibility edited by Idowu, Samuel O. and Leal Filho, Walter, Springer.
Due: September 17, 2009
2.“Corporate Social Responsibility In Europe.Rhetoric and Realities.” Edited by Regine Barth and Franziska Wolff from the Environmental Law and Governance Division, Öko-Institut, Germany, Edward Elgar, 2009.
Globe Award Nominees for Sustainability Research.
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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Grants for CSR research
1. EASY ECO Conference 2009
“Stakeholder Perspectives in Evaluating Sustainable Development”, Budapest, 16-18 October, 2009.
EU-Grants are available for young researchers (with less than ten years research experience) to cover all costs (travel expenses, participation [...]
CSR-pedia
CSR-pedia is a website that categorizes, catalogs, and describes corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs developed by companies to help solve social and environmental problems around the world.
The two main features of this website are a CSR Program Directory, and a Socially Responsible Business List.
In the CSR Program Directory, each socially responsible and/or environmentally sustainable activity [...]
Why are we moral?
Broader issues today:)
Jonathan Haidt studies how and why we evolved to be moral in a cultural context. He hopes that by understanding more about our moral roots “we can learn to be civil and understanding of those whose morals don’t match ours, but who are equally good and moral people on their own terms.”
More about [...]
Reputation matters:))
The Reputation Institute has been measuring corporate reputations since 1999.
Corporate reputations are valuable assets because they influence the profitability of companies. Consumers, creditors or job-seekers decide whether to enter into a relationship with a company on the basis of its reputation among other factors.
In 2006, Reputation Institute has introduced RepTrak Model, a scorecard for measuring [...]
The future of CSR
I have read a couple of days ago a recent article, “Is CSR failing?” by Wayne Visser posted on CSRinternational.
He is a CSR supporter but he emphasizes that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has failed to reduce social “bads” like poverty, human rights abuses or environmental degradation and argues that CSR needs to evolve exactly like [...]
A critique of CSR. Do you agree?
CSR will not make the world a better place but it will actually do more harm to it, says David Henderson, in a speech at the Instituto Bruno Leoni. Henderson, former chief economist of the OECD, thinks that CSR will not help answering to the challenges associated with globalization and it will not bring benefits [...]
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