Poverty, Environmental Risk, Stakeholders Integration and Business Responsibility

Rodrigo Lozano, Clovis Zapata, Dr. Catherine Liston-Heyes ( Univ of London), Prof Jose Cespedes Llorente ( Univ of Almeria), Prof. Sandra Torrusio ( Universidad Catolica La Plata, Argentina), Prof. Jorge Madeira Nogueira ( Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil), Dr. Anabel Lamaro ( Galileo Center, Argentina), Dr. Yolanda Bueno ( Universidad Simon Bolivar, La Paz,Bolivia), Diego Diaz ( Universidad Nacional de Caracas, Venezuela)

Poverty, social vulnerability, Environmental degradation and unsustainable business strategies have become a vicious circle that ought to be broken. The projects looks to consolidate an integrated framework from sociology ( Social Theories of Risk) and Management ( stakeholders theory, institutional theory, entrepreneurship) to address risks and uncertainties arising from poverty and environmental degradation in developing countries. The project also aims to identify those management tools and/or approaches that can reduce social vulnerability while also reducing (or at least not increasing) environmental risk. Then analyse how they can applied by businesses in areas where social vulnerability and environmental deterioration is high.