Janina Grabs

Selling Sustainability Short?

The Private Governance of Labor and the Environment in the Coffee Sector

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Produktbeschreibung

Can private standards bring about more sustainable production practices? Grabs answers this question by combining large-N hypothesis testing with a rich empirical account of sustainability governance in the coffee sectors of Honduras, Colombia and Costa Rica. For consumers, academics and practitioners interested in corporate social responsibility.

Produktdetails

• Organizations and the Natural Environment
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9781108799508
• ISBN-10: 1108799507
• Artikelnr.: 63297837

Autorenporträt

Janina Grabs is a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich. She is the recipient of APSA's 2019 Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award, the 2018 Giandomenico Majone Prize for the best early career contribution to the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, the 2019 Oran R. Young Prize of the Earth System Governance Project, and the 2016 IFAMA Best Paper Award in the category 'relevance for managers'. She also provides strategic advice to the coffee industry, for instance as 2019 SCA Re:Co Speaker.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The dilemma of effective private governance
3. Defining the goal of a sustainable coffee sector
4. Changing the market
5. Changing farming practices
6. Designing effective private institutions
7. Interacting with public institutions
8. Conclusions.