American Psychological Association - Environmental/Conservation Early Career Award Nominations Open!

[Sonya Sachdeva]

Each year, APA Division 34 (Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology) honors an early career researcher who has made significant contributions to these fields. They do not need to be a member of Div 34. Please submit nominations and spread the word!

 

Call for Nominations: Division 34 Early Career Award

Deadline: Jan 1, 2020

Send to sonya.s....@usda.gov

 

We are now soliciting nominations for the Division 34 Early Career Achievement Award. This award recognizes the exceptional contributions and achievements of an early career scholar working within the division’s interest areas of environmental, population, and/or conservation psychology. The ultimate aim of the award is to recognize individuals who are making significant contributions to these fields early in their careers. Nominees should be investigators who have made substantial contributions to research in these fields within ten years of receiving their doctorate and who have demonstrated the potential to continue such contributions in the future.

 

Nominees can be from any country and do not need to be members of the Division. Their innovative and substantial research and/or practice should clearly reflect the Division’s aims and focus on environmental, population, and/or conservation psychology. Nominees do not have to hold an academic position; individuals working in non-profit organizations, governmental agencies or other practice-oriented positions may be considered for the award. The award includes a certificate, an invitation to give an address at the upcoming APA convention, and a complimentary one-year membership in the Division for the following calendar year.

 

Nominations should consist of a detailed statement indicating why the nominee is a worthy candidate for the Early Career Award, as well as one or more supporting letters from others who endorse the nomination. The candidate’s curriculum vitae should also be submitted at the time of nomination, if available. Self-nominations are permitted and encouraged.

 

Send your submissions or questions to the Chair of the Awards Committee, Sonya Sachdeva < sonya.s....@usda.gov > by January 1^st, 2020. The review panel will consist of current and past APA Division 34 executive committee members and award winners.

 

**Reminder: Nominations for the Newman-Proshansky Career Achievement Award for individuals who have made significant lifetime contributions to the fields of Environmental, Population, and/or Conservation Psychology are also open through Dec. 1^st.** 

 

 

Sonya Sachdeva, PhD  Research Social Scientist US Forest Service Northern Research Station, People & Their Environments Office: 224-999-4004 Mobile: 973-978-9792 sonya.s....@usda.gov 1033 University Pl  Evanston, IL 60201 www.fs.fed.us     Caring for the land and serving people

 

[Vesela R Veleva]

Dear all,

I am organizing a session on Innovative Business Models to Promote Sustainable Consumption at the 2020 SCORAI conference in Boston, June 2020. Please email me directly if you are interested in the session. You also need to submit an abstract before December 13, 2019. For more information about the conference and how to submit an abstract please check: https://cssh.northeastern.edu/scorai2020/call-for-abstracts/

Below please find a description of the session. 

Best,
Vesela

Vesela Veleva, ScD

Senior Lecturer, Department of Management

Director, MBA Program

Co-Director, Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness

College of Management

UMass Boston

Email: Vesela...@umb.edu

http://www.umb.edu/academics/cm/faculty_staff/faculty/vesela_veleva

www.umb.edu/serc

Innovative Business Models to Promote Sustainable Consumption

Sustainable consumption is critically important to address climate change and environmental degradation, while delivering economic opportunity over $4.5 trillion (Lacy & Rutqvist, 2015; GreenBiz). Business model innovation is increasingly seen as essential for advancing sustainable lifestyles and moving away from recycling to more desirable practices such as using public transportation, renewable energy, adopting plant-based diets, reducing material consumption and housing footprint (Bocken et. al., 2014). Such a transition will require a fundamental shift in the purpose of business and how value is defined by companies and society. It will require new innovative actors who help solve environmental and social challenges while educating consumers about sustainable lifestyles (Ghisellini et. al., 2016). Entrepreneurs are ideally positioned for launching innovative business models and filling the gaps in reverse supply chains, yet their role is still underexplored (Heshmati, 2015). They also face numerous barriers such as lack of supportive regulation and incentives, financing, brand awareness, data and tools to measure impacts, and market demand. Regardless, research has found that a growing number of entrepreneurs are leveraging technology and strategic partnerships with variety of stakeholders to create value for their partners and communities by reducing risks, costs, and material consumption (Veleva & Bodkin, 2018).

This session aims to bring together companies working to advance sustainable consumption and sustainable lifestyles. It will include brief presentations followed by open discussion about the strategies and actions needed to shift to more sustainable lifestyles. Key questions to address will include: a) how are companies overcoming existing barriers – market, regulatory, organizational and cultural – to launch successful business models focused on reducing consumption; b) how do they educate customers on the benefits of their products and services in order to change their behaviour; and c) what types of policy initiatives do they see as necessary to advance transition to more sustainable production and consumption systems. Potential session participants include companies such as: Joro, RentItems, Preserve, The Furniture Trust, Circular Blu, Project Repat, and SaveBox.

The session will contribute to the discussion of the role of business and entrepreneurs in particular in advancing more radical shifts in the societal organization of production and consumption, including behaviour change initiatives, supply chain collaborations, and new ways of living and working, thus helping meet the goals of the Paris Agreement while promoting social and economic benefits.