Sustainability in Public Procurement, Corporate Law and Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9781032151038 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 416 str.

Lela Melon

Opis

Contemporary changes in law and policy at the global level to efficiently answer to environmental and social issues correspond to the traditional approach of limiting the regulatory and policy changes to a singular field or discipline: tackling the inherent unsustainability of corporate laws or incentivising the offering of sustainable finance to stimulate the transition towards sustainable practices. This book provides a new viewpoint and approach of simultaneously regulating seemingly non-connected fields in order to provide a fertile ground for a truly organic change towards sustainable outcomes. It addresses diverse questions of sustainable transition of the three specific fields to support sustainable practices in public procurement, private market transaction and in educating future business leaders and legal experts by incorporating sustainable concerns as the underlying guiding principles of their conduct. It translates scientific findings into a practical format that can be used by diverse stakeholders searching for information and solutions in their respective professional fields. The underlying assumption is that a simultaneous action in the three respective fields of public procurement, corporate law and higher education brings about more coherent and interconnected results that incentivise further action and changes towards sustainable practices. The book furthers the idea of policy coherence by building upon the findings in the field of public procurement, corporate law and practice and higher education curricula. By identifying the barriers in the three respective fields for sustainable action and proposing solutions for either eliminating or minimising those barriers at the EU level, the book calls for further changes in the respective fields as well as for considering the spill-over effects of these policies on other fields.

O autorze

Lela Mélon is a former Marie Curie Research Fellow with a legal and economics background. She is currently the executive director of the Planetary Wellbeing Institutional Framework at UPF and the director of the postgraduate programme on Sustainability Transition at ESCI-UPF as well as assistant director of the Masters of Science in Sustainability Management at ESCI-UPF and UPF-BSM. She specializes in EU law, with a focus on corporate conduct and sustainability, and is currently researching policy coherence for sustainability at EU level, with particular interest in corporate law policies. She is also active in the consulting sector through her activity at msg global (Spain) and CER Partnership (Slovenia), where she is assisting corporations to carry out the sustainability transition.