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2024
Yvonne Wolfmayr, Elisabeth Christen, ...
Trade and Welfare Effects of New Trade Policy Instruments...
Geoeconomic concepts are gaining importance in EU trade policy. In this context new trade policy instruments are designed to protect the internal market against unfa...
2024
Birgit Meyer
Nachhaltigkeit entlang globaler Lieferketten – Wirtschaftliche E...
Mit der Initiative zur Richtlinie über die Sorgfaltspflicht von Unternehmen im Hinblick auf Nachhaltigkeit (Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive – CSDDD)...
2024
Gabriel Felbermayr, Klaus Friesenbich...
Designing EU Supply Chain Regulation...
The EU Directive on Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence has sparked fierce debate about the regulation of supply chains. The directive’s objectives are aligned wit...
2024
Jan Hurt, Katharina Ledebur, Birgit M...
Supply Chain Due Diligence Risk Assessment for the EU: A Network Appro...
Globalization has had undesirable effects on the labor standards embedded in the products we consume. This paper proposes an ex-ante evaluation of supply chain due d...
2024
Birgit Meyer, Isabel Pham
Human Rights in Supply Chains – An Overview of Due Diligence Obl...
Based on the United Nations General Assembly's Universal Declaration of Human Rights from 1948, human rights have become an integral part of the behaviour of states ...
2024
Johanna Coenen, Gabi Sonderegger, Jen...
Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows...
Global commodity flows between distally connected social-ecological systems pose important challenges to sustainability governance. These challenges are partly due t...
2024
Benedetta Cotta, Johanna Coenen, Ed...
Environmental governance in globally telecoupled systems: Mapping the ...
Environmental governance is increasingly challenged by global flows, which connect distant places through trade, investment and movement of people. To date, research...
2024
Jens Newig, Edward Challies, Benedett...
Governing global telecoupling toward environmental sustainability...
Telecoupling constitutes a particular class of globalized environmental issues that are neither local-cumulative, nor transboundary, nor concerning global commons, b...
2024
Andrea Lenschow, Jens Newig, Edward C...
Globalization’s limits to the environmental state? Integrating telec...
Globalization entails increased interdependence and interconnectivities among distal regions and social-ecological systems. This global interregional connectedness ...
2024
Inga Carry
Critical Raw Materials Partner Canada: An (almost) Perfect Match...
The European Union (EU) is aiming to strengthen its cooperation with like-minded countries to secure its supply of so-called critical raw materials. European Commiss...
