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    Environment and Sustainable Development
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Peter Utting

Peter UttingPeter Utting specializes in research on corporate social responsibility, business regulation and sustainable development. He co-ordinates UNRISD projects in these areas and has been responsible for overseeing the preparation of several of the Institute's flagship reports, including States of Disarray: The Social Effects of Globalization and Visible Hands: Taking Responsibility for Social Development. At UNRISD he has also co-ordinated projects on rebuilding war-torn societies and participatory approaches to natural resource management and conservation.

Prior to joining UNRISD in 1992 Peter worked for 12 years in Nicaragua on a range of development and environment issues, including the social impact of structural adjustment programmes, agrarian reform and food policy. During much of this time he was based at the Centre for Research and Studies on Agrarian Reform (CIERA). He also participated in regional and international research projects on the social and environmental effects of deforestation, economic reform in Third World socialist countries, and food security in developing countries. During the latter half of the 1970s he managed housing, health and nutrition projects in the interior region of Nicaragua, worked on the construction of gas pipelines in Scotland and farming in France. Peter has a Ph.D. and other degrees in Sociology and Development Studies.


Selected recent publications:

  • Co-editor with José Carlos Marques. 2009. Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatory Governance: Towards Inclusive Development? Palgrave: Basingstoke;
  • Paper forthcoming: 'The Changing Coordinates of Trade and Development in Latin America: Implications for Policy Space and Policy Coherence' by Manuel Mejido, Peter Utting and Gloria Carrion;
  • “The Struggle for Corporate Accountability', Development and Change volume 39, issue 6, November 2008;
  • Co-editor with Jenifer Clapp. 2008. Corporate Accountability and Sustainable Development, Oxford University Press: New Delhi
  • "CSR and equality." Third World Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2007;
  • Co-author (with Ann Zammit). 2006. Beyond Pragmatism: Appraising UN-Business Partnerships. UNRISD Programme Paper, No. 1. Markets, Business and Regulation Research Programme;
  • Editor, Reclaiming Development Agendas: Knowledge, Power and International Policy Making, Palgrave, 2006;
  • “Rethinking Business Regulation: From Self-Regulation to Social Control” UNRISD Programme Paper TBS-15, October 2005;
  • “Corporate Impact” Courrier de la Planète, no. 74, September 2005;
  • “Corporate Responsibility and the Movement of Business", in Development in Practice, Volume 15, June 2005, and as a chapter in Eade, D and John Sayer (eds.), Development and the Private Sector: Consuming Interests, Kumarian Press, 2006;
  • “Promoting Development through Corporate Social Responsibility: Does it work?” Global Future, Third Quarter, 2003;
  • “Corporate Responsibility and Labour Issues in China: Reflections on a Beijing Conference” The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Issue 10, Summer 2003;
  • “The Global Compact and Civil Society: Averting a Collision Course” Development in Practice, Volume 12, No. 5, November 2002;
  • Editor, The Greening of Business in Developing Countries: Rhetoric, Reality and Prospects, Zed Books, 2002;
  • "UN-Business Partnerships: Whose Agenda Counts?" Transnational Associations, No.3, 2001;
  • "Business Responsibility for Sustainable Development", UNRISD Occasional Paper No. 2, 2000;
  • Co-editor, Visible Hands: Taking Responsibility for Social Development, UNRISD, 2000;
  • Editor, Forest Policy and Politics in the Philippines, Ateneo University Press, 2000;
  • Co-editor, Discours et réalités des politiques participatives de gestion de l'environnement: Le cas du Sénégal, UNRISD, 1998;
  • Bosques, Sociedad y Poder, Universidad Centroamericana, 1996;
  • Co-editor, States of Disarray: The Social Effects of Globalization, UNRISD, 1995.
  • Editor, Between Hope and Insecurity: The Social Consequences of the Cambodian Peace Process, UNRISD, 1995;
  • "Social and Political Dimensions of Environmental Protection in Central America", Development and Change, Vol.25, No.1, 1994;
  • Trees, People and Power: Social Dimensions of Deforestation and Forest Protection in Central America, Earthscan, 1993;
  • Economic Reform and Third World Socialism, Macmillan, 1992;
  • Economic Adjustment under the Sandinistas, UNRISD, 1991