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Charline Depoorter
Sustainability Research Group - University of Basel
Charline Depoorter is a postdoctoral researcher in the Sustainability Research Group at the University of Basel (Switzerland), and a Research Fellow at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies at KU Leuven (Belgium). She is a political scientist by training and is passionate about transnational sustainability governance and global environmental politics. She currently investigates different (public and private) regulatory instruments aiming to make global value chains more sustainable, with an empirical focus on the agricultural sector. Charline Depoorter received her PhD in Global Sustainability Governance from KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2024. She has also briefly worked for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2024, and continuously collaborates and engages with international organizations such as United Nations agencies, the OECD, and the European Union. Her research interests include transnational sustainability governance, global (agri-food) value chains, political economy, global environmental politics, and corporate responsibility.
MORE ABOUT CHARLINE DEPOORTER >2023
Charline Depoorter, Axel Marx
Fostering compliance with voluntary sustainability standards through institutional design: An analytic framework and empirical application
The institutional design of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) has been recognized as an important determinant of compliance with VSS rules, which partly explains heterogeneity in VSS sustainability impacts. However, the current understanding of how VSS institutional design generates complianc...
2024
Eva Boonaert, Charline Depoorter, Axel Marx, Miet Maertens
Carrots rather than sticks: Governance of voluntary sustainability standards and farmer welfare in Peru
Aligned with the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) have gained prominence as market-based tools for sustainability governance. However, whether VSS improve economic sustainability remains subject to vigorous debate. A major limitation of the evidence base ...
2024
Axel Marx, Charline Depoorter, Santiago Fernandez de Cordoba, Rupal Verma, Mercedes Araoz, Graeme Auld, Janne Bemelmans, Elizabeth A. Bennett, Eva Boonaert, Clara Brandi, Thomas Dietz, Eve Fouilleux, Janina Grabs, Lars H. Gulbrandsen, James Harrison, Robert Heilmayr, Ariel Hernandez, Bernard Hoekman, Siti Rubiah Lambert, Eric Lambin, Li Li, Miet Maertens, Paulo Mortara Batistic, Etsuyo Michida, Junji Nakagawa, Archna Negi, Jorge A. Pérez-Pineda, Stefano Ponte, Ximena Rueda, Philip Schleifer, Vera Thorstensen, Hamish van der Ven
Global governance through voluntary sustainability standards: Developments, trends and challenges
Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) are transnational governance instruments that can be leveraged to pursue sustainable development in global value chains. They have proliferated since the 1990s in terms of their number and the share of global production they govern. This paper shares some key...
