Search for dissertations about: "Eco-Labelling"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word Eco-Labelling.

  2. 1. Assessment of Eco-Labelling and Green Procurement from a Strategic Sustainability Perspective

    Author : Cecilia Bratt; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Strategic Sustainability Perspective; Sustainable Consumption and Production; Eco-labelling; Green Procurement; Criteria Development Process; Product-Service Innovation.;

    Abstract : Efforts to reduce negative impacts from consumption and production include voluntary market-based initiatives. Examples are the concept of eco-labelling and the concept of green procurement. These have emerged as policy instruments with great potentials to steer product innovation and purchasing decisions in a sustainable direction. READ MORE

  4. 2. Integrating a Strategic Sustainability Perspective into Eco-Labelling, Procurement and Supply Chain Management

    Author : Cecilia Bratt; Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sustainability; Strategic Sustainable Development; Eco-Labelling; Sustainable procurement; Sustainable Supply Chain Management;

    Abstract : Maintaining the current course of the global society is threatening the human civilization. The urgency of the situation, understood from empirical research, has caused many researchers to call for more prescriptive research as a necessary supplement, to better support decision making for sustainability. READ MORE

  5. 3. Influences, effects and changes from interventions by eco-labelling schemes - What a Swan can do?

    Author : Åke Thidell; Internationella miljöinstitutet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Direct effect; Eco-labelling; Intervention theory; Environmental labelling; Nordic Swan; Measurement method; Indirect effect;

    Abstract : Eco-labelling is a voluntary and informative policy instrument aiming at stimulating environmentally beneficial product development through using the market forces. The Nordic Swan eco-labelling scheme has been in operation since 1989. READ MORE

  6. 4. Constructing and contesting the legitimacy of private forest governance : The case of forest certification in Sweden

    Author : Johanna Johansson; Carina Keskitalo; Karin Bäckstrand; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; accountability; corporate social responsibility; eco-labelling; forest certification; forest governance; forest practices; governance; legitimacy; national forest inventory; private governance; Sweden; voluntary standards; statskunskap; political science;

    Abstract : In recent decades, political scientists have devoted substantial attention to the changing role of the state towards more inclusion of non-state actors in policymaking. This deliberative turn, or move towards governance, may signal inability to handle complex problems without cooperation with nonstate actors. READ MORE