This paper aims at reviewing the literature on international trade and sustainability. In the neoclassical sense sustainability is interpreted as the imperative to maintain constant consump- tion over time. The literature provides several indicators to assess sustainability empirically....

This paper aims at reviewing the literature on international trade and sustainability. In the neoclassical sense sustainability is interpreted as the imperative to maintain constant consump- tion over time. The literature provides several indicators to assess sustainability empirically....

A set of recent international studies reveal the scarcity of coherent entity-level estimation systems able to lead to an adequate identification and valuation of social and environmental performance, despite the large number of entities claiming their concern for the environmental impact of...

The institutions which support fair trade offer solutions capable of combining the benefits of international trade with socially, economically and environmentally sustainable enterprise. The case of the creation of the supply chain for the harvesting and sale of Brazil nuts and its evolution...

Sustainability transitions have been studied as complex multi-level processes, but we still know relatively little about how they can be effectively governed, especially in transnational domains. Governance of transitions is often constrained by the equivocality of sustainability goals, the...

In vielen deutschen Unternehmen ist die Umsetzung von Nachhaltigkeit bereits fest verankert, indem sie die ökonomischen, ökologischen und sozialen Wechselbeziehungen ihrer Tätigkeiten analysieren, sich Ziele setzen und Kennzahlen, die über die unterschiedlichen Dimensionen ihres Geschäfts...

In this paper, we investigate the role of key industry and other stakeholders and their embeddedness in particular national contexts in driving the proliferation and co-evolution of sustainability standards, based on the case of the global coffee industry. We find that institutional conditions...

We present a dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin model to study structural change in a sustainability context. We show how resource rich economies maximising steady-state consumption should adopt different development strategies depending on the distribution of domestic wealth instruments (assets). Owing to...

We present a dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin model to study structural change in a sustainability context. We show how resource rich economies maximising steady-state consumption should adopt different development strategies depending on the distribution of domestic wealth instruments (assets). Owing to...

Sustainable finance, as a distinct category of finance, entails the introduction of environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into financial decision-making. Previous work at the international level such as the UN Principles for Responsible Investment and the Global Compact...