Everyday Ecology, Energy, Consumption
Schultz, Irmgard (2009): CSR for gender equality: a new approach for dealing with long-standing inequalities? Insights from two banks. In: Regine Barth/Franziska Wolff (Eds.): Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe: Rhetoric and Realities. Cheltenham (UK), Northampton (MA): Edward Elgar Publishing, 190-214
Schultz, Irmgard/Immanuel Stieß (2008): Linking sustainable consumption to everyday life. A social-ecological approach to consumption research.
Schultz, Irmgard (2007): Case Study on Gender Equality through CSR in the Banking Sector. Working paper of RARE project., Frankfurt/M., rare16casestudy.pdf, 240 kb
Schultz, Irmgard (2007): EU Goals Concerning Gender Equality: To What Extent Does CSR Contribute to Achieving Them? Frankfurt/M., rare_benchmarking.pdf, 137 kb
Schultz, Irmgard (2006): The Natural World and the Nature of Gender. In: Davis, Kathy/Evans, Mary/Lorber, Judith (Eds.), Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 376-396
Projects
Policies to Promote Sustainable Consumption Patterns EUPOPP ... more
Sustainable Acting in Business and Private Dailey Life ... more
Energy Saving by Intelligent Measuring and Feedback Systems - Intelliekon ... more
Rhetoric and Realities – Corporate Social Responsibility in Europa (RARE) ... more
Lectures
(1) The contribution of CSR towards meeting EU sustainability goals: Promoting gender equality in the banking sector. (2) Input und Arbeitsgruppe: "What factors external to companies promote the creation of CSR impacts?" Conference of RARE Project: Rhetoric and Realities – Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe, Brüssel, 27. Juni 2007
Workshop Corporate Social Responsibility and social dimensions of consumption: How can CSR contribute to integrate social aspects better into consumption pattern? 11th European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (erscp), Basel, 20.-22.06.2007
Dr. Irmgard Schultz
Tel. 0049 (69) 707 69 19 16
Fax 0049 (69) 707 69 19 11
schultz@isoe.de
Irmgard Schultz is a co-founder of ISOE and heads the Research Area “Everyday Ecology, Engergy, Consumption.” She studied political science, philosophy and literary criticism at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main and received her doctorate there in 1992 with a thesis on “The Thrilling Myth of Money: Money and Gender as a Topic in the Age of Ecology.”
Focus of research
- Consumption research
- Gender and environment
Research Projects (Selection)
- Policies to Promote Sustainable Consumption Patterns EUPOPP ... more
- Energy Saving by Intelligent Measuring and Feedback Systems - Intelliekon ... more
- Rhetoric and Realities – Corporate Social Responsibility in Europa (RARE) ... more
- Transdisciplinary Integration - Cooperation and Concept Devlopment in Knowledge Networks ... more
- Target group orientation and gender specific design for consumer policies... more
- Joint Emissions Trading as a Social-Ecological Transformation (JET-SET) ... more
- Scientific Consultants for the Introduction of Gender Mainstreaming in the daily practice of the Federal Environment Ministry (FEM) ... more
Recent Publications
- Schultz, Irmgard (2009): CSR for gender equality: a new approach for dealing with long-standing inequalities? Insights from two banks. In: Regine Barth/Franziska Wolff (Eds.): Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe: Rhetoric and Realities. Cheltenham (UK), Northampton (MA): Edward Elgar Publishing, 190-214
- Schultz, Irmgard/Immanuel Stieß (2008): Linking sustainable consumption to everyday life. A social-ecological approach to consumption research. In: Arnold Tukker/Martin Charter/Carlo Vezzoli (Eds.): Perspectives on radical Changes to Sustainable Consumption and Production. System Innovation for Sustainability 1. Sheffield (UK): Greenleaf Publishing Ltd, 288-300
Lectures (Selection)
- (1) The contribution of CSR towards meeting EU sustainability goals: Promoting gender equality in the banking sector. (2) Input und Arbeitsgruppe: "What factors external to companies promote the creation of CSR impacts?" Conference of RARE Project: Rhetoric and Realities – Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe, Brüssel, 27. Juni 2007
- Workshop Corporate Social Responsibility and social dimensions of consumption: How can CSR contribute to integrate social aspects better into consumption pattern? 11th European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (erscp), Basel, 20.-22.06.2007