Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: The Role of Supermarkets as Key Agents in Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production

该奖项通过贝尔蒙特论坛，为参与由55个国家的全球变化研究倡议竞争性选择的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。 贝尔蒙特论坛是一个由研究供资组织组成的联合会，其重点是支持对全球环境变化挑战和机遇采取跨学科办法。 它的目的是通过调整和调动国际资源，加快提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国家都在一个财团内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。这一办法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对具有全球意义的专题进行出色的研究，最好通过多国办法加以处理，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决办法。该奖项为美国研究人员提供支持，使他们能够在由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的联盟中进行合作。 这些小组将制定和采用新的跨学科方法，将可持续消费和生产作为一个社会技术系统来处理，以帮助为可持续、有复原力和公正的消费和生产系统的决策提供信息。这些实体将标准强加给供应商，并塑造消费者的行为-无论是好是坏。连锁超市的可持续性行为在可持续性维度、商业模式和国家之间存在很大差异。 该项目将观察到的可持续发展模式与企业的商业理由联系起来，以了解为什么零售企业的企业可持续发展状况差异如此之大，以深入了解企业决策，并帮助解释战略差异。 该项目通过一个创新的分析框架，整合管理科学，价值链研究和社会技术系统研究以及包括企业管理研究，消费者行为经济学和环境影响分析在内的几种方法来研究决策。 该项目将增加决策者、民间社会组织、私营部门协会和消费者团体的知识，使他们了解连锁超市在提高其食品和服务的可持续性方面目前的行动、机遇和挑战。 这些知识将有助于设计更好的可持续性战略、产品和流程，通过跟踪和监测食品零售商在其社会中的采购和营销活动的环境足迹，直接使消费者和环境受益，并建立长期合作伙伴关系以维持变革。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的评估，被认为值得支持。影响审查标准。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries. The teams will develop and employ new transdisciplinary approaches to address sustainable consumption and production as a socio-technical system to help inform decision-making for sustainable, resilient, and just systems of consumption and production.The project focuses on the highly influential role that supermarkets play in the shift towards Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SSCP). These entities impose standards on their suppliers and shape consumer behavior - for good or bad. Sustainability behavior of supermarket chains differs considerably across sustainability dimensions, business models, and countries. This project links the observed sustainability patterns to the business rationale of firms to understand why corporate sustainability profiles differ so strongly across retail corporations, to gain insight on corporate decision-making and to help explain strategic differences. The project investigates decision-making through an innovative analytical framework integrating management science, value chain research, and socio-technical systems research and several methodological approaches including business management research, consumer behavioral economics, and environmental impact analysis. This project will increase the knowledge of policymakers, civil society organizations, private sector associations, and consumer groups about what are the current actions, opportunities, and challenges for supermarket chains to increase the sustainability of their food products and services. This knowledge will help design better sustainability strategies, and products and processes, directly benefitting consumers and the environment by tracking and monitoring the environmental footprint of food retailers’ sourcing and marketing actions in their societies and build long term partnerships to sustain change.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.