We are pleased to announce that the RSA Board have agreed funding for the RSA Research Network on Green(ing) Global Value Chains for Sustainable Regional Development (GGVC4SRD).
The Green Transition presents significant economic, institutional and political shifts, challenging our understanding of sustainable regional development. Green Global Value Chains (GGVCs) and their actors, such as lead firms and labourers, take centre stage in this evolving relationship between sustainability and economic development. How frameworks like the EU’s Green Deal, due diligence laws, carbon taxes and carbon markets will reshape value chain governance and outcomes, particularly at the sub-national level, remains under-explored.
This Research Network addresses this gap by advancing an interdisciplinary research agenda on GGVC and sustainable regional development from multiple, critical angles. Through workshops, RSA special sessions, and digital events, the network will create a platform for sharing cutting-edge research from established scholars while fostering new voices, especially from early career researchers and Global South scholars to push an emerging agenda of highest societal importance. A digital workshop and a webinar will promote and disseminate the network’s work.
Find out more about the Research Network and their future events here.
Organiser Carolin Hulke said
“From afar, we’ve gingerly admired the work on green global value chains of our research network – this funding not only allows us to admire it in person, but also to facilitate other scholars, those typically outside the USA-European networks into the conversation.”
The RSA is looking forward to working with the network’s community and the organisers, Carolin Hulke (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK), Oliver Harman (International Growth Centre and University of Oxford, UK), Riccardo Crescenzi (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK), and Valentina De Marchi (ESADE Business School, Spain)
Connect with the organisers on social media
Riccardo Crescenzi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riccardocrescenzi/
Valentina De Marchi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentinademarchi/ & https://bsky.app/profile/valentinademarchi.bsky.social
Oliver Harman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oharman/ & https://bsky.app/profile/oliverjharman.bsky.social
Carolin Hulke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-carolin-hulke-7321071b7/