Social Enterprise and environmental sustainability: challenges and opportunities
BRASS and TSRC
16 April 2013
Cardiff City Hall, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3ND
There are many examples of social enterprises creating positive environmental impacts. While they are not all motivated by environmental concerns, the social enterprise model may enable business success to be combined with sustainability.
This event brought researchers, policy makers and practitioners together to discuss the opportunities and challenges for social enterprises to help create environmental sustainability.
- How can social enterprise provide solutions to environmental challenges?
- How can policy and research promote environmentally focused social enterprise?
Presentations:
Ken Peattie (BRASS)
Ian Vickers (TSRC/ Middlesex University)
Dan McCallum (Awel Aman Tawe)
Graham Smith (TSRC/ University of Westminster)
The event was jointly organised by the Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) and the Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS).
Speakers also included Defra, local social enterprises and researchers.
The event discussed the role of both policy and research in promoting environmentally focused social enterprise, asking how the social enterprise movement, government policy and researchers can help strengthen potential of social enterprise to create a more sustainable world.
A publication (pdf) based on presentations at this event was created as part of a series of ESRC publications.