Organizing Sustainably with Nature in the Global South

Éditeurs invités

• Simone Barakat, Fundação Getulio Vargas
• Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes, Hanken School of Economics
• Seray Ergene, University of Rhode Island
• Steffen Farny, Leuphana University Luneburg
• Judy Muthuri, University of the West Indies

Synthèse

Contemporary sustainability challenges increasingly foreground organizations as embedded within complex social-ecological systems rather than operating independently from them. While ecological degradation and resource constraints affect organizations worldwide, these challenges are more immediate and structurally embedded in the operating environments of the Global South. These challenges are not just a background context to which organizations must adapt but an outcome of long-standing patterns of extraction, uneven development, and entrenched social inequalities that continue to shape what sustainability can mean in practice.

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Thèmes proposés

• Organizing for Environmental Sustainability across Communities and Regions - How do communities and organizations work together to govern natural resources and shared ecological commons?
• How do sustainability standards, certifications, and supply-chain rules influence organizational practices across regions?
• How do organizations manage environmental interdependencies across local and global contexts?
• What challenges arise when local ecological priorities clash with global market or regulatory pressures, and how do organizations deal with these challenges in practice?
• Organizing with Nature from a Global South perspective - How do organizations in the Global South manage their activities within the carrying ecological capacity of the planet (i.e., planetary boundaries), particularly under conditions of resource constraints and institutional fragility?
• How do organizations in the Global South engage with degrowth, sufficiency, circular, or regenerative practices?
• What tensions do organizations in the Global South face between economic survival and ecological realities, and how do they navigate these circumstances in practice?
• How organizations in the Global South conceptualize and manage their embeddedness within social–ecological systems and attempt to develop a regenerative dynamic with nature?
• Power, Inequality, and the Governance of Nature - What are the sources of environmental injustices currently in the global South? How are they experienced? What are some resistances to these injustices, and how do they unfold? What are some policy mechanisms (if any) to address these injustices?
• How do power asymmetries manifest in sustainability governance and transnational regulations?
• How do corporations influence environmental policy and access to natural resources?
• How do resistance and counter-organizing emerge around contested environmental futures?
• Stakeholders and Environmental Sustainability from a Global South Perspective - How do organizations in the Global South engage with stakeholders in relation to environmental sustainability?
• How are the interests of diverse stakeholders, such as communities, governments, NGOs, and other stakeholders, navigated around environmental risks and resource use?
• How do stakeholder relationships influence organizational decisions and practices related to environmental sustainability?
• How do power asymmetries and dependency relations among stakeholders shape environmental outcomes and organizing processes?