Handbook of Research on Sustainability and Governance

Edited by Sébastien Mena, Professor of Strategic Management, Department of Management, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue, Associate Professor of Global Environmental Politics, Environmental and Society Studies, Radboud University, the Netherlands and University of Brasília, Brazil, Kenneth Amaeshi, Professor of Sustainable Finance, European University Institute, Italy and Professor of Business and Sustainable Development, University of Edinburgh, UK and Dhanasree Jayaram, Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, Manipal Institute of Social Sciences Humanities and Arts, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India

‘This Handbook is timely, broad, lively and authoritative. Authors include some of the leaders in their fields, the framing is neat and the Introduction provides an excellent guide to the topic and to the collection.’

• ContentsAcknowledgements xxi1 Introduction: navigating tensions between sustainability and governance 1Sébastien Mena, Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue, Kenneth Amaeshi andDhanasree JayaramPART I GOVERNANCE APPROACHES: HOW TO GOVERN SUSTAINABILITY?Part I.i Public governance2 A rise in state governance for sustainability 10Jette Steen Knudsen3 Multilateral environmental governance 22Gunilla ReischlPart I.ii Private governance4 Industry self-regulation 34Charlotte Cloutier and Debora Sara Anspach5 Multi-stakeholder initiatives for sustainability: retrospective andprospective views of private transnational governance 47José Carlos Marques6 The potentials and pitfalls of hybrid governance for sustainability: the caseof multi-stakeholder partnerships 61Montserrat Koloffon Rosas, Cornelia Fast, Oscar Widerberg andPhilipp Pattberg7 Corporate governance: rethinking director’s duties in the era ofsustainability and ESG 78Femi AmaoPart I.iii Alternatives8 Feminist perspectives on sustainability governance 95Emma Foster9 Shapeshifters and supernaturals: climate change, contracts and Indigenousgovernance 108Dara Kelly and François Bastien10 Uncovering the veils of climate and sustainable governance in/for a more-than-human world 118Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes and Seray ErgenePART II THE GOVERNED: WHO IS CONCERNED WITH SUSTAINABILITYGOVERNANCE?Part II.i Nation-states11 Climate governance in China: a multi-actor perspective 133Yitong Ye and Yixian Sun12 Governing tensions of stability and change towards a haze-free ASEAN 147Helena Varkkey13 A new momentum for deforestation governance? The EU deforestationregulation 159Niels Søndergaard and Camila Dias de SáPart II.ii Industries and sectors14 Value chain governance, from plantation to consumer: the example oftropical commodities 171Janina Grabs15 Sustainability governance in garment production networks: layeringmultiple approaches 184Rachel Alexander16 International institutional frameworks on ocean governance andbiodiversity 198Shailly Kedia, Madhuparna Maiti, Palak Khanna and Kapil Narula17 Sustainability governance in the mining sector: who is concerned? 215Hyeyoon Park and Isabella Alves Lamas18 Global energy transition: balancing sustainability and governance 228Abbas AbdulRafiu and Chux Daniels19 Governing corporate sustainability through and against financial markets:promises and perils of sustainable finance 242Rachelle Belinga and Jean-Pascal GondPart II.iii Organizations20 Redefining firm governance in an era of sustainability in Sub-SaharanAfrica: the case for the adaptive participatory governance model (APGM) 259Franklin Nakpodia and Emmanuel Adegbite21 Sustainability and alternative organizing: worker cooperatives, localcommunities and radical democracy 272Nigel Forrest and Simon Parker22 Shareholder activism for sustainability: the translation of active ownershipfrom the United States to Switzerland 285Daniel Waeger and Sébastien Mena23 Trade union governance and sustainability: addressing the tensionsbetween growing and greening the economy 296Jane Parker and Valeria PulignanoPart II.iv Communities and individuals24 Territory as sustainability: the case of Baniwa good living 314André Fernando Baniwa, João Nackle Urt and Tchella Fernandes Maso25 Indigenous peoples’ life projects and climate finance: the Podáali Fund innegotiation with sustainable development 329Thais Lemos Ribeiro Verônica Korber Gonçalves, Claudia SoaresBaré, Juliana Lins, Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue26 Centre-staging blue-green networks for socio-ecological equity: narratingBangalore’s found (lakes) and lost (ESS) 343Anjali Karol Mohan and Rutu Marathe27 The citizen: defending the life of Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland on anuneven playing field 357Juneseo Hwang and John Barry28 The consumer: sustainable consumption perspectives 370Collins Osei, Mavis Gutu and Daniel Hagan29 Professionals in sustainability: working because of and beyond regulation 383Luc Brès and Szilvia MosonyiPART III GOVERNING SUSTAINABILITY: ISSUES AND PROSPECTS30 Global and local governance of sustainability: the role of cooperatives inpromoting voluntary sustainability standards 403Nazik Beishenaly and Axel Marx31 Animals and sustainability governance: towards interspecies governance 418Anne van Veen32 The role of imaginaries of justice in sustainability governance 430Maria Kaufmann and Sietske Veenman33 Balancing growth and environmental sustainability: a practitioner’sperspective on this challenge 440Alexander Fisher, Dhanasree Jayaram and Vineeth Daniel Vinoy