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Ecological sensemaking and climate change
Posted on 30-04-2012There is not enough understanding of the issues affecting our environment and climate system. This raises the crucial question: are modern managers prepared to ‘embed’ themselves in our natural world to monitor and make sense of local variability in the natural environment?
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Making sense of climate change
Posted on 10-05-2011When Gail Whiteman officially accepted the Ecorys NEI Chair in Sustainability and Climate Change on April 1, 2011, she had a clear message: if we don’t start paying attention to the Earth’s changing ecosystem now, extreme weather will take us by surprise time and again, harming people and business alike.
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Why some assets are best left frozen
Posted on 30-11-2010Prof. Gail Whiteman participated in an important expedition to the Arctic ice floes of Canada to see at first hand the impact of climate change. For her it was an eye-opener that reinforced the increasingly important role of ecology and sustainability in business.
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How companies can help in the transition to low carbon cities
Posted on 22-10-2010Greenhouse gas emissions are a significant contributor to climate change with our cities producing approximately 75-80% of all CO
2 worldwide. In tackling the problem at an urban level, industry can learn much from initiatives undertaken by cities and by partnering with city authorities locally and internationally, argues Professor Gail Whiteman.
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Luca Berchicci on Green Entrepreneurship
Posted on 03-02-2009SCR member Luca Berchicci is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and New Business Venturing, and author of the recently published Innovating for Sustainability. Fresh from a trip to Silicon Valley, where he and his masters students were looking at firms specialising in clean technologies, he reflects on the challenges and opportunities for companies in becoming more ‘green’.
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Gail Whiteman on Management Solutions to Climate Change
Posted on 04-11-2008As Associate Professor in Business-Society Management, Gail has brought issues of CO2 reduction, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability to the forefront of business studies. She was key in helping launch Greening the Campus, the university-wide carbon reduction programme currently taking root at Erasmus University. And as Director of the Sustainability and Climate Research Centre (SCR), Gail is tackling the complexities of finding management solutions to climate change.
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Monbiot on Management and Climate Research
Posted on 14-12-2007On 24 October 2007, Bettina Wittneben, Assistant Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, interviewed author and journalist George Monbiot on research gaps in management pertaining to climate research and university education in climate change policy.
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Renato J. Orsato: On Strategic Environmental Management
Posted on 15-11-2007Dr. Renato J. Orsato is Senior Research Fellow at the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre, Fontainebleau, France. His research focuses on the conditions favouring firms to transform environmental investments into sources of competitive advantage and value innovation. It is this subject that we will explore in more detail in this interview, using the car industry as an illustration.
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Bettina Wittneben: Contributing to organizational change at RSM and beyond
Posted on 14-06-2007Bettina Wittneben on the use of institutional theory in climate change research, and the influence of the sustainability and Climate Research centre on inter-organizational and institutional change
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