Current Research Interests
Use of information disclosure as a regulatory instrument for sustainability; socio-technical system innovation in sustainability transition; corporate accountability and governance; social learning and institutional theory; comparative international environmental policy; environmental public health policy; environmental toxicology; management of risks from toxic substances.
Selected Publications
Levy, D., H.S. Brown and M. de Jong. Forthcoming 2009. NGO strategies and the politics of corporate governance: The case of global reporting initiative. Business and Society.
Brown, H.S., M. De Jong and D. Levy. Forthcoming 2009. Building institutions based on information disclosure: Lessons from GRIÕs sustainability reporting. Journal of Cleaner Production.
Brown, H.S., M. de Jong and T. Lessidrenska. Forthcoming 2009. The rise of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) as a case of institutional entrepreneurship. Environmental Politics.
Brown, H.S. and P.J. Vergragt. 2008. Bounded socio-technical experiments as agents of systemic change: The case of a zero-energy residential building. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 75: 107-130.
Vergragt, P.J. and H.S. Brown. 2008. Genetic engineering in agriculture: New approaches to generating societal consensus. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 75: 783-798.
Vergragt, P., and H.S. Brown. 2007. Sustainable mobility: From technological innovations to societal learning. Journal of Cleaner Production 15: 1104-1115.
Brown, H.S. 2007. Institutional transplantation within borders: Transformation of environmental regulatory system in Poland during the 1990s. Knowledge, Technology, and Policy Winter: 26-43.
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