May 12, 2009
· Filed under research · Tagged globe award, reporting, research, sustainability
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.
May 10, 2009
· Filed under research · Tagged conference, CORE, csr, EABIS, grants, 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 fees, accommodation and living allowance).The presentation of a paper increases the chance of getting a grant, however, it is not mandatory.
The current Call for Papers, together with the application for EU-Grants, will be open until 15 May 2009. Details on the application process can be found at http://www.sustainability.eu/easy/?k=apply.
Submission deadline: 15 May 2009.
2. 4th. CORE Conference 2009
“The potential of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to support the integration of core EU strategies”, 15-16 June 2009, Berlin.
Grants are still available for papers addressing issues covered under theme-tracks 1-3 as described in the Call for Papers. Abstracts addressing theme track 3 will receive preferential treatment.
Submission deadline: 18 May 2009.
For more details refer to the call for papers at http://www.core-conferences.net/attach/CORE_Call-for-Papers_2009.pdf or visit CORE’s website at: http://www.core-conferences.net/
3. EABIS Colloquium 2009
“The Role and Purpose of Business in Society: Challenges and Issues for Global and Corporate Governance”, Barcelona, 21-22 September 2009.
For more details refer to the Call of Papers.
Submission deadline: 29 May 2009.
April 24, 2009
· Filed under research · Tagged csr, csrpedia, ferguson, research
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 is categorized by:
The Socially Responsible Business List consists of international companies that engage in major socially responsible acticities. Companies are currently being selected based on prevalence in CSR literature.
CSR-pedia was created by a team of researchers under the supervision of Dr.Mary-Ann Ferguson from the Department of Public Relations, University of Florida.
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