Using the global value chain framework to analyse and tackle global environmental crises
Abstract
Climate crises are being experienced all over the world and appear to be accelerating
as “extreme weather” events become the “new normal.” In today’s world economy, where
trade and production activities are internationally dispersed and prone to disruptions,
the global value chain (GVC) framework provides a systematic approach to understand
and combat environmental crises and to advance sustainable development options across
global, regional, and local scales. A vast “implementation deficit” characterizes
sustainability efforts to date. The GVC framework incorporates firm and policymaker
perspectives in a multistakeholder approach that offers multiple building blocks for
a progressive environmental agenda, including: a multi-actor perspective to define
sustainability; measuring it across diverse geographic scales; analysis of both environmental
upgrading and downgrading; distinguishing motivations, actions, and outcomes when
assessing environmental performance; viewing GVC resilience in terms of the interplay
of economic and environmental forces; and highlighting how context matters in analyzing
national, industry, and geopolitical factors.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/29008Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1007/s40812-022-00253-xPublication Info
De Marchi, V; & Gereffi, G (2023). Using the global value chain framework to analyse and tackle global environmental
crises. Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 50(1). pp. 149-159. 10.1007/s40812-022-00253-x. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/29008.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Gary Gereffi
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Gary Gereffi is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Director of the Global Value Chains
Center at Duke University (https://gvcc.duke.edu/). He has published over a dozen
books and numerous articles on globalization, industrial upgrading, and social and
economic development, and he is one of the originators of the global value chains
framework. His most recent books are: <a href="https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/

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