Past Seminar Series
Seminar Series: Certification and Sustainability
The certification of products is not new. However, the past few years have seen an upsurge in consumer demand for much more information about the provenance, authenticity, and performance of products and services, going well beyond authenticity, safety and reliability. Alongside this rise there has been a proliferation of voluntary certification schemes instituted by various combinations of industry associations, nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and government or quasi-governmental agencies.
The seminar series is designed as the first step of a project to compare newly emerging third party certification programmes. Drawing together scholarly and practitioner expertise on a variety of third party certification programmes, presentations will address issues such as the origins or inspiration for the certification programme, identification of participants, its structure, effectiveness and impacts (anticipated and unanticipated), and principal challenges of the certification scheme.
Seminars are free and open to everyone. They take place in the Old Indian Institute (corner of Holywell and Catte Streets) from 3.30-5.00pm on Thursdays during term time.
Events in this series:
| Date | Details | |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Oct 2010 | 15:30 | Seminar: Dr Lars Gulbrandsen, "Introduction to and Overview of Third Party Certification" |
| 21 Oct 2010 | 15:30 | Seminar: Dr Clive Barnett, "Enacting the Ethical Consumer" |
| 28 Oct 2010 | 15:30 | Seminar: Professor Dan Klooster, "Driven to Drive Markets: The contradictions of forest certification in the promotion of sustainability" |
| 04 Nov 2010 | 15:30 | Seminar: Professor Ian Taylor, "Conflict diamonds and the governance of resources" |
| 11 Nov 2010 | 15:30 | Seminar: Dr Alex Nicholls, "Fair Trade Certification" |
| 18 Nov 2010 | 15:30 | Seminar: Professor Tim Bartley, "Standards for sweatshops: voluntary labour standards programs in global supply chains" |
| 25 Nov 2010 | 15:30 | Seminar: Professor Timothy Sinclair, "Problems With Credit Rating Agencies" |
| 02 Dec 2010 | 15:30 | Workshop: Certification and Sustainability |
Post Event Resources
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Details:
20 June 2010 - 25 November 2010
Location
Oxford Martin School
Old Indian Institute
34 Broad Street (corner of Holywell and Catte Streets)
Oxford
OX1 3BD
