Since 1970 the world has recognized April 22nd as Earth Day, ‘a global partnership for the planet with a mission to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide’. This year's theme is invest in our planet. Since that first Earth Day we’ve come to define sustainability as a much broader term that encompasses many areas of modern life, from fashion to food, travel to industry, innovation, and infrastructure. This is reflected in the cross-disciplinary research and publications that are published each year. Below you’ll find a selection of recently published and freely available resources across the social and behavioral sciences.

News

SAGE Publishing and the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) are partnering to launch a new peer-reviewed journal, Environment and Security – the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to understanding environment, climate, security, conflict, and peace linkages.

Environment and Security is an interdisciplinary, international, peer-reviewed journal. It seeks to publish innovative research on the intersections between environmental and security issues, and to inspire debates by decision makers and practitioners. The first of the quarterly publications is due to be published in the second half of 2023.

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Books

Business & Management

• Read Colin Coombe’s chapter exploring how sustainability strategies can be formulated, implemented, and evaluated within a company from Introduction to Global Sustainability Management.

• In this accessible and engaging textbook, Principles of Management, which was the first official textbook of the United Nations global initiative network, and includes coverage of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, author Oliver Laasch provides ‘a systematic overview of factors that have led to today’s global unsustainable society, describe the status quo, and provide an outlook on future scenarios of development.’

• Watch our recent webinars considering the role and future of corporate social responsibility, part of the ongoing series: Teaching business for people & planet.

Explore more sustainable Business & Management content.

Marketing

• In a cutting-edge text, Sustainable Marketing explores the sustainability practices that benefit companies, stakeholders, and consumers, Mark Peterson draws upon current research and industry examples to dissect the interplay between marketing and wider society. Read these free chapters on the environmental imperative and environmentally oriented business

• Fashion & Luxury Marketing by Soloman and Mrad highlights ethical and sustainable fashion exploring the dark side of consumer behavior and helping students understand business ethics and corporate social responsibility in fashion with real-world examples and case studies including Prada, Gucci, and Burberry.

Pedagogy

• Introducing nature pedagogy - an approach that seeks to respect and support the rights of children and the planet together. In Green Teaching, Claire Warden encourages all educators to embrace eco-logical choices and to use nature as the location, resource and context for learning. The author draws on international research and case studies to offer a way forward, to embed green teaching and a nature-based pedagogy in practice and transform teaching with young children.

Journals

Research & ideas aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

• The UN Sustainable Development Goals have provided an international framework to measure societies’ biggest challenges. We’ve used this framework to collate social and behavioral science research and amplify key themes of the UN SDGs.

Social Science Space

Why social science? Because changing behavior is essential to addressing climate change

• The challenge of climate change is enormous and requires an all-of-science effort. Psychologists must be part of the solution, writes Corbin Evans on Social Science Space.