Applying social and practice based learning theories into the climate change debate: assessing the private sector´s role in decarbonisation initiatives in Brazil

Authors

  • Daniele Vieira do Nascimento Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction (CliSAP)

Keywords:

organizational learning, social and practice based approach, climate change, corporations, decarbonisation

Abstract

Climate change debates have for long underestimated the contributions from social sciences. Not only the research sphere but also, and most importantly, the policy sphere have in majority used natural sciences studies repertoires and reports into account rather than sociological assumptions about how we should take action in order to mitigate the problem. Assessing the role of the private sector in decarbonizing initiatives is a crucial step towards a more social based research on climate disorders. The learning literature applied to the managerial sciences can contribute a lot to this debate bringing interesting insights about how corporations develop and spread mitigation technologies and about how and/or whether it could be integrated into other regions in the globe.

Author Biography

Daniele Vieira do Nascimento, Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction (CliSAP)

Doutora em Gestão Ambiental e Sociologia pela Universität Hamburg (Alemanha). É Mestre em Administração pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Atualmente é pesquisadora do Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction (CliSAP) na Alemanha. Seus interesses de pesquisa incluem perspectivas organizacionais e sociais sobre a mudança climática, estratégia organizacional, as tecnologias renováveis e o setor de transportes no Brasil.

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