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AbstractEnvironmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) is corporate business sustainability for the future and a noble ethical that fosters social, economic and environmental well‐being (EWB) of the community. Based on environmental protection and management, the Indonesian mining company is obliged to mitigate and conserve the surrounding environmental ecosystem. The mining company invested IDR17.35 billion on ECSR since 2006. This study examines the effects of ECSR on EWB of the community by mediating community resilience. The subjects were family household leaders in 12 villages who were direct and indirect recipients of ECSR. Partial least squares‐based structural equation modelling analysis was used to determine the effects of ECSR on the community EWB. In addition, were analysed mediated effects by community resilience (CR). The findings of this study confirmed that ECSR practices had positive and significant effects on CR and EWB. As a mediator, CR significantly contributed to the sustainable EWB of the community.

Conflicts frequently arise over environmental issues such as land use, natural resource management, and laws and regulation, emerging from diverging interests and values among stakeholders. This book is a primer on causes of and solutions to such conflicts. It provides a foundational overview of the theory and practice of collaborative approaches to managing environmental disputes. Joshua D. Fisher explains the core concepts in collaborative conflict management and presents a clear, practical, and implementable framework for understanding and responding to environmental disputes. He details strategies to bring stakeholders together in pursuit of collective solutions, emphasizing ongoing processes of dialogue, analysis, action, and learning. This collaborative approach can create new opportunities for stakeholders to better understand each other and the natural world, which enables more effective and context-appropriate environmental governance. The primer examines why and how system dynamics can constrain or expand the possibility of constructive management of conflicts. It features a case study from the Amazon Basin, where local communities, extractive industry operators, conservationists, and land managers have often clashed over access to natural resources, drawing out lessons to illustrate how to adapt the conflict management framework to distinct contexts. Managing Environmental Conflict synthesizes knowledge, methods, and practices spanning consensus building, collaborative governance, complex adaptive systems science, environmental conflict resolution, and environmental peacebuilding. Its presentation of this important and timely topic will be invaluable for academics and practitioners alike, including decision makers, scientists, and conflict management professionals.

PurposeBased on the knowledge-attitude-behavior model, this study is aimed at investigating the influential mechanism underlying the purchase of green clothing by dividing this clothing category into green home-in wear and home-out wear within the context of green consumption. The mediating effects of perceived greenwashing (PG), perceived value (PV) and expected moral benefit (EMB) and the moderating effect of green clothing type (GCT) were examined.Design/methodology/approachThe data for this study were collected from 366 valid samples through a between-subject design survey administered in China. Moderation analysis and mediation analysis using SPSS/PROCESS macro were applied to test the proposed hypotheses.FindingsThe results indicate that consumers' level of environmental knowledge (EKL) not only has a direct effect on purchase intention (PI) but also has an indirect effect through perceived value and expected moral benefit. However, perceived greenwashing did not play a mediating role in this relationship.Originality/valueThe study's findings show a moderating effect of green clothing type (green home-in wear vs green home-out wear). That is, compared to green home-out wear, the relationship between expected moral benefit and perceived greenwashing for green home-in wear had a weaker negative effect on purchase intentions.

Environmental conflicts are on the increase in all democratic industrial societies. In some areas, especially those involving big technology development projects, there is growing resistance to government intervention using conventional policy instruments. Therefore, political administrations and business have begun to accept the idea of experimenting with so-called alternative forms of conflict resolution, in particular, those based upon negotiation. In the United States, Japan, and Canada one such procedure, mediation, has come into wider use and proven successful in practice. This article describes several mediation procedures, mostly in the United States, but also including two examples of its application for resolving conflicts in the Federal Republic of Germany-one concerning a landfill site at Münchehagen and one concerning a waste management concept for the county [Kreis] of Neuss in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. Finally, the question is raised in general as to whether and how mediation procedures could fUnction as policy instruments in a modern state, and whether they are appropriate for dealing with major, but at the same time locally restricted cases of conflict. Regarding the Federal Republic of Germany in particular, more practical experience with mediation must be gained before we are able to draw general conclusions about its possible areas of application in this country and the conditions underlying its success. ; In allen demokratischen Industriegesellschaften nehmen die Umweltkonflikte zu. Einige Bereiche (besonders groBtechnische Entwicklungsvorhaben betreffend) erweisen sich zunehmend resistenter gegen staatliche Steuerungsversuche mit konventionellen Politikinstrumenten. Das hat im politisch-administrativen System und in der Wirtschaft die Bereitschaft wachsen lassen, mit neuartigen, sog. alternativen Streitregelungsverfahren zu experimentieren. Sie beruhen in aller Regel auf Verhandlungslosungen. Eines davon, das Mediationsverfahren, hat sich in der Praxis - insbesondere in den USA, Japan und Kanada - als relativ erfolgreich erwiesen. Es wird in diesem Beitrag vor dem Hintergrund besonders der Erfahrungen in den USA beschrieben, weiterhin werden zwei Anwendungsfalle in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Mülldeponie Münchehagen, Abfallwirtschaftskonzept des Kreises Neuss) dargestellt. SchlieBlich wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob und in welcher Weise Mediationsverfahren als Politikinstrumente angesehen werden konnen. Die Studie kommt zu dem Ergebnis, daB Mediationsverfahren Politikinstrumente eines modernisierten Staates sind und besonders fur groBe, jedoch lokal/regional überschaubare Konflikte geeignet sind. In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland sind allerdings noch mehr praktische Erfahrungen notwendig, um über Erfolgsvoraussetzungen und Anwendungsgebiete begrundete allgemeinere Aussagen machen zu konnen.

Presents diverse perspectives on the role of flexible, as opposed to intransigent behavior in the resolution of international conflicts through negotiation by principals and through the mediation of third parties; 11 articles. Includes negotiations on environmental issues, border disputes, cease-fires in civil wars, and the status of newly independent nations in Central Europe, with special reference to Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Multi-party mediation is transversal to almost all areas of mediation because it focuses specifically on the resolution of complex conflicts aiming at the involvement of all potentially interested parties. Furthermore, it is a means of excellence to involve all positions and interests at stake, as it seeks not only the integration of different perspectives and knowledge but also the resolution of conflicts in a phased and flexible approach. At the same time, multi-party mediation allows to perceive the existence of latent conflicts that, with adequate methodologies, can be overcome, clearing the way for joint solutions. Given the diversity of situations that can be addressed using this process (whether from family, commercial, labor, school, or environmental mediation), it is important to clarify that although there are common structuring elements, methodologies should be flexible and adapted to each case. Particularities of each case should be considered during the process design and or embraced in its course. Focusing on consensus building, multiparty mediation is thus capable of dealing with situations of imbalance of powers, insecurity in sharing opinions and perspectives, and lack of articulation, promoting safe Plurilogue spaces. Hence, multi-party mediation emerges as a conflict resolution and prevention process within a broader context of many "traditional" fields of mediation. For this paper, we have chosen an illustrative case study from the field of environmental/ administrative mediation, one of our emblematic projects – MARGov - Collaborative Governance of Marine Protected Areas. This project focussed on the Marine Park Professor Luiz Saldanha in Sesimbra, created by a top-down administrative process. Weak governance and absence of local stakeholders' participation generated conflicts over time. The Project MARGov proposed to develop a model of collaborative governance via a complex multi-party mediation process.

PurposeThis study attempts to fill the research gap by extending sustainability literature and providing empirical evidence that considers sustainability marketing commitment (SMC) as a fundamental attribute of effective marketing strategy that consequently improves tourism service quality, as represented by service attractiveness.Design/methodology/approachIn the current study, data was collected from 313 tourism and hospitality firms. To test the model, this study applied structural equation modeling (SEM) to investigate the relationships among environmental strategy, SMC, supplier trust and service attractiveness in a mediation-moderation setting.FindingsThe results indicate that the multiple mediation effects of environmental strategy may indirectly influence tourist attractiveness through SMC and tourism services. The two-way moderating effects reveal that supplier trust and socialization strengthen the service attractiveness development process, while three-way interaction discovered that socialization and supplier trust positively moderate the relationships between tourism services and service attractiveness.Originality/valueSustainable strategy is a future trend for tourism business management; however, unknown to most is the role of marketing and environmental strategy in tourism business due to lack of integration with concepts in marketing strategy, with the multidimensionality of tourism services, and with the function of trust and socialization, critically undermining analyses of service attractiveness. This paper combines corporate sustainability and sustainability marketing methods to explore how an environmental strategy can improve tourism services and enhance a destination's attractiveness based on a mediation-moderation mechanism.