Dear colleagues, As part of a broader project<http://steunpuntsumma.be/english>, I am conducting a screening of international non-governmental initiatives on sustainable resources management.
More specifically, I am looking for initiatives that 1. are initiated by an NGO, 2. are international in scope (at least going beyond the scale of one state), 3. promote, encourage, support or take concrete steps towards a more sustainable management of a specific resource (e.g. gold) or a specific product (e.g. jeans). I am not aware of any comprehensive studies that have been conducted to provide a list of such initiatives. An OECD study<http://search.oecd.org/officialdocuments/displaydocumentpdf/?doclanguage=en&cote=env/epoc/wgwpr(2007)4/final> of 2008 is an exception, but I strongly predict this is outdated and very selective. Stacy VanDeveer's report Still Digging<http://www.transatlanticacademy.org/publications/still-digging-extractive-industries-resource-curses-and-transnational-governance-anthro> provides an interesting typology of transnational efforts. Another useful starting point are the NGOs that are active within the World Resources Forum<http://www.worldresourcesforum.org/>, but it is hard to identify more than a few very specific projects through that channel. After a limited e-mail survey of a number of ENGOs, we already got an initial list of about 20 initiatives (examples are Cool products for a cool planet, rank@brand, ReDUSE, Sustainable Packaging Coalition, WorldLoop), but most answers I receive do not comply with my third criterion, which aims especially at making a specific resource stream more sustainable throughout multiple stages of its life-cycle. Since I am guessing there are a bunch of initiatives out there that so far have remained below the radar, I would like to benefit from your knowledge. I would greatly appreciate it if you could send me the initiatives that you are aware of, or that you think might be interesting for me. I will share a compilation of answers with the list. Thanks in advance for your help! Sander -- Dr Sander Happaerts, research manager Research Group Sustainable Development HIVA - Research Institute for Work and Society (KU Leuven) Parkstraat 47 box 5300 / BE-3000 Leuven tel +32 16 32 31 03 From: Michael Maniates [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: woensdag 27 november 2013 8:28 To: Sander Happaerts Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [gep-ed] NGO initiatives on sustainable resources management Dear Sander, By way of making the best use of the time and talents of those on the list, perhaps you can share with us the work you've already done around this question. So, for example, what data bases or lists of international environmental NGOs have you already obtained or explored? Or, which major publications or other directories of international environmental NGOS have you discovered? And what INGO sustainability initiatives have you already identified as potential examples or exemplars? As a general rule, it is helpful when posting requests for research clues to say a bit about the digging and searching you've done before posting your request for assistance. Doing so provides us with useful context, and prevents us from digging up information that you may already have at your disposal. Yours, Michael Maniates On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Sander Happaerts <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear colleagues, As part of a broader project, I am conducting a screening of international non-governmental initiatives on sustainable resources management. More specifically, I am looking for initiatives that 1. are initiated by an NGO, 2. are international in scope (at least going beyond the scale of one state), 3. promote, encourage, support or take concrete steps towards a more sustainable management of a specific resource (e.g. gold) or a specific product (e.g. jeans). I would greatly appreciate it if you could send me the initiatives that you are aware of, or that you think might be interesting for me. I will share a compilation of answers with the list. Thanks in advance for your help! Sander -- Dr Sander Happaerts, research manager Research Group Sustainable Development HIVA - Research Institute for Work and Society (KU Leuven) Parkstraat 47 box 5300 / BE-3000 Leuven tel +32 16 32 31 03<tel:%2B32%2016%2032%2031%2003> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:gep-ed%[email protected]>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
