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Lehr- und Forschungseinheit Wirtschaftsgeographie
Luisenstraße 37
80333 München

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Luisenstraße 37
Dritter Stock
80333 München
Raum A 335

Tel.: +49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 4071

E-Mail: gordon.winder@lmu.de

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Sprechstunden: Donnerstag 16-18 Uhr

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Lehr - und Aufgabenbereiche

01/2022 - 03/2022
Hauptseminar SS 2022
Sustainability in Global Production Networks
Course Outline
Introductory Session now scheduled for 28 January 2022, 11.00-12.00

Course Content and Aims - In this course we will explore how the concept of 'sustainability' is being realted to Global production Networks. The GPN, Global Commodity Chain and Global Value Chain literatures have been useful for understanding geographic patterns of internationalization, corporate globalization strategies, factors influencing globalization of production, regional competitiveness, problems and issues with as well as barriers to internationalization, changing technologies for networking, logistics and production, and the use of governance practices such as product certification, direct control or outsourcing. Today, as firms look to become carbon neutral and to meet consumer expectations related to sustainability, they are increasingly trying to manage their production and supply arrangements to achieve environmental and social goals. However, just how effective they are in their efforts remains highly controversial. This course will explore the practices being used, the effects of such efforts, and their environmental and social consequences. The learning aims of the course are to understand GPN as a conceptual framework within Economic Geography, and to explore environmental management through GPNs.

Introductory Session - Friday 28.01.2022, 11.00-12.00 (please contact Prof. Winder by email to secure a Zoom link for this session)

Coursework - A presentation and a term paper (due on the date of presentation)

Language of Instruction - English

Languages of Presentation and Coursework - German or English

Staff - Prof. Dr. Gordon Winder

Suggested Topics - By using (1) company or enterprise case studies, (2) analysis of events (e.g. protest, court action) or practices (e.g. new regulations), or (3) a review of Economic Geography literature, asses the following practices and their environmental and social outcomes: product certification; carbon neutrality; fossil fuel industry divestment; developing regional production networks; labour rights and fair labour practices; protesting corporate practices; securing networks against trade disruption; government subventions; specific regulations; corporate social responsibility.

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Forschungsschwerpunkte

PROFILE

Professor of Economic Geography and Sustainability Research in the Department of Geography, LMU Munich.

Affiliated LMU Professor and member of the Board of Studies, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU-Munich.

Member of the Advisory Board for the Munich Centre for Global History, LMU Munich.

Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Environment, The University of Auckland.

Member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Historical Geography.

Member of the DFG-funded research group 'Urban Ethics'.

Born in New Zealand, I gained my PhD in Geography from the University of Toronto, worked at Mount Allison University and Brandon University in Canada and the University of Auckland, New Zealand before moving to the LMU-Munich.

RESEARCH PROFILE

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND SUSTAINABILITY

I conduct economic geography research on resources and sustainability with special attention to natural resources management, disaster recovery,  the development of sustainable business enterprises and networks, and the effectiveness of policies designed to promote innovation, transformation, or resilience in the face of shocks. This involves researching interactions among resources, governance, innovation, markets and environments with sustainability as a driving conccern. As solutions to chronic environmental problems are sought by some in the formation of new markets it is timely to research aspects of resources and their effects on environments, market formation, the implications of trade for environments, and the implications of the cultures of markets for environments. In addition, I continue to research historical geographies of globalization, This research focus is advanced through three thematic agendas:

1. MAKING TRANSITIONS  

KEYWORDS - bio-economies, Blue Economy, environmental economic geography, environmental ethics, gegraphies of sustainability transitions, innovation for sustainability, innovative commodity chains, resilience, sustainable manufacturing, urban ethics.

RECENT PUBLISHING

Acosta Garcia, R., Aschenbrenner, M., Dürr, E., and Winder, G.M., (2020) Re-imagining cities as ecosystems: Contrasting ethics of ebvironmental care in Auckland and Mexico City. Urban Research and Practice. DOI: 101080/17535069.2020.1811886.

Aschenbrenner, M., and Winder, G.M. (2019) Planning for a sustainable marine future? A critical analysis of Marine Spatial Planning in the German Exclusive Economic Zone of the North Sea, Applied Geography 110: 102050.

Kapfhammer, W., and Winder, G.M., (2020) Slow Food, shared values and empowerment in an alternative commodity chain linking Brazil and Europe. Sociologus 70(2): 101-122.

Blicharska, M., et al., (2020) Between biodiversity conservation and sustainable forest management - A multidisciplinary assessment of the emblematic Bialowieza Forest case. Biollgical Conservation 248: 1-15.

Dürr, E., Ege, M., Moser, J., Neumann, C.K., and Winder, G.M., (2020) Urban ethics - Towards a research agenda on cities, ethics and normativity. City, Culture and Society 20: 1-11.

Winder, G.M. (ed.), (2017) Fisheries, Quota Management and Quota Transfer: Rationalization Through Bio-economics. Berlin: Springer.

Winder, G.M. and Le Heron, R. (2017) Assembling a Blue Economy moment? Geographical engagement with globalising biological-economic relations in multi-use marine environments. Dialogues in Human Geography 7(1): 3-26.

Bobar, A. and Winder, G.M., (2017) Der Begriff der Resilienz in der Human-geographie. In M. Karidi, M. Schneider and R. Gutwald (eds.), Resilienz: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven zu Wandel und Transformation. Wiesbaden: Springer: 83-102.

2. AFTER DISASTER

KEYWORDS -- disaster recovery, insurance, livelihoods, media and disaster, memories of disaster, resilience, risk, vulnerability

RECENT PUBLISHING

Hofmann, S.Z., (2021) Dynamic economic resilience scenarios for measuring long-term community resilience housing recovery. Environmental Hazards (forthcoming) accepted for publication 2021.

Winder, G.M.,, and Hofmann, S.Z., (2020) The challenges posed by UN-Habitat's rural-urban linkages in a sustainability transition agenda: The case of the Christchurch, New Zealand rebuild. In A. Kratzer and J. Kister (eds.), Rural-Urban Linkages for Susrainable Development. New York and London: Routledge.

3. GEOGRAPHIES OF GLOBALISATION

KEYWORDS -- global publics, global reach, manufacturing belt, trading environments, webs of enterprise,

RECENT PUBLISHING

Winder, G.M., (2020) Reaching the global public: Going international in a difficult market, 1935-1936. in V. Huber and J. Osterhammel (eds.), Global Publics: Their Power and their Limits. Oxford: Studies of the German Historical Institute London, Oxford University Press: 115-143.

Winder, G.M., (2019) The world market: Conceptualizing the world economy. Invited chapter for S.R.Sippel (ed.), 'Global Economic Entanglements, Area Studies and Transregional Perspectives.' Section IV of M.Middell (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Transregional Studies (2 volumes) of the Centre for Area Studies at the University of Leipzig, London and New York: Routledge: 221-234.

Winder, G.M., and Dix, A. (eds.) (2016) Trading Environments: Frontiers, Commercial Knowledge and Environmental Transformation, 1750-1990.' (Routledge, Environment and Society Series).

 





Dr. Sahar Zavareh Hofmann, 'Disaster recovery in urban communities.' with support from the DFG (completed 2022).

PhD STUDENTS CURRENT 

Arun Adhikari, 'Societal recovery in Nepal after the 2015 earthquakes: An assessment at community and household level,' with Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich.







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Forschungsprojekte

Urbane Umweltethik am Rande der Stadt: Die Herstellung ethischer Bürgerinnen für Aucklands "blue backyard" (01.05.2018 - 30.04.2021) >> mehr

Langfristiger Wiederaufbau nach Katastrophen in urbanen Gemeinschaften (01.02.2018 - 31.01.2020) >> mehr

Holzzukunft oder Holzweg? Chancen, Barrieren und Kompromisse einer veränderten Nutzung von Holz als Beitrag zur gesellschaftlichen Transformation (17.06.2013 - 14.06.2017) >> mehr

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