Principal Investigator: Haia Al- Dajani. Lead Organisation: University of Plymouth
Co-investigator: Susan Marlow
Contemporary political volatility within the Middle East region has led to far reaching socio-economic upheaval and strife with a devastating impact generating mass displacement of Iraqi, Palestinian, and Syrian refugees to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey (UNCHR, 2014).
The project aims to explore how the buying choices of the individual and the state can be used as a lever for development, understood as people’s freedom to live the life they have reason to value - individually and collectively.
Sobre palavras e atos no consumo sustent?vel no Brasil: os 'aparentes paradoxos' de uma pesquisa qualitativa
Ethical consumers in the global South: the case of Chile and Brazil
This was a paper summarising the ethical consumption focus group and survey data of the project. It was accepted and presented at the largest and most prestigious conference in Geography.
Ethical Consumption in Chile and Brazil
Consumo ?tico en Brasil y Chile: Contexto Institucional y v?as de desarrollo
Technologies, capabilities and collective choice: Exploring sustainable state e-procurement in Brazil and Chile
This paper summarised and analysed research findings from focus group discussions which asked Chilean and Brazilian citizens' about their views on sustainable public procurement. It also considers how e-procurement systems such as Chilecompra (Chile) and Comprasnet (Brazil) could be used to coordinate sustainable public procurement. The paper was jointly authored and presented by the PI at the largest and most prestigious Geography conference, the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers.
Placing and scaling ethical choices: ethical consumption and ethical public procurement
Capabilities, collective action and people's sense of choice: Towards sustainable e-procurement in Chile and Brazil
This conference paper reflected on the findings of the two reports on sustainable public procurement produced by the project for Chile and for Brazil. Further, it considered how e-procurement systems might support such sustainable public procurement. It was presented at the bi-annual International Geographical Congress, the second-largest international Geography conference. The session was sponsored by the IGU Commission on the Geography of the Global Information Society.
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