Leonie Dendler

Tyndall Research Theme: Governance
Duration of your PhD: 2008/2012
Thesis's Supervisor: Paul Dewick, Kevin Anderson
Funder: Sustainable Consumption Institute
My Thesis' Abstract: The main aim of this PhD project is to investigate the prospects and different visions for an effective implementation of a sustainability ‘meta label' to support ‘more' sustainable consumption and production. Combining theoretical arguments from interdisciplinary informed ideational institutionalism with concepts of legitimacy from the governance and organisational studies literature, the project first investigates how the construction of legitimacy has shaped the institutionalisation of four existing labelling schemes: EU eco-, EU energy-, Fair Trade and Marine Stewardship Council label. The identified causal relations are then used to examine the prospects for the institutionalisation of a legitimised sustainability meta label.

e-mail address: Leonie.Dendler@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
First Name: Leonie
Surname: Dendler
Institution: University of Manchester
Current Position: PhD Researcher
Role at Tyndall: PhD Researcher
Research Interests: Leonie is a PhD researcher looking at the potential implementation of a Sustainability Meta Label. Her research interests include the concept of sustainable consumption in general as well as the role of the retail sector and the instrument of labeling to support more sustainable consumption in particular. Due to the interdisciplinarity both of her current project and her former studies Leonie is taking into account different conceptions of sustainable consumption.

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