Prof Jacob Park

Visiting Professor
Name: Jacob Park
SARChI TRCTI Visiting Scholars  Staff Members

Contact Details:

Email: jacob.parkVT@gmail.com

About Prof Jacob Park

Jacob Park is Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg DSI/NRF/Newton Fund Trilateral Chair, and Associate Professor in Castleton University’s College of Business. He serves as the Chair, Regenerative Finance Taskforce and on the Steering Committee of IUCN/World Conservation Union Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (https://www.iucn.org/commissions/commission-environmental-economic-and-social-policy) and has served as the Coordinating Lead Author of the UN Environment Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) Report, Lead Author for the United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Assessment initiative, and as an Expert Reviewer for a number of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publications including the Sixth Assessment Report.

He is also Co-Executive Editor of Subsistence Marketplaces, Associate Editor at the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and serves on the editorial boards of Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, and Emerald Emerging Market Case Studies. His co-edited book, Entrepreneurial, Innovative and Sustainable Ecosystems, was published by Springer in 2018, while Crisis of Global Environmental Governance: Towards a New Political Economy of Sustainability was published in 2008 by Routledge and Ecology of the New Economy: Sustainable Transformation of Global Information Technology, Communication, and Electronics Industries was published in 2002 by Greenleaf Publishing.

Education

PhD Erasmus University of Rotterdam

Masters in City Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bachelors Degree, University of Chicago

Research Interests

Dr. Park specializes in the social and environmental dimensions of innovation, entrepreneurship, and international business, with special focus/expertise in emerging and developing economies in Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Caribbean islands regions.

Select Publications

• “Evolving Energy Transition Process and Ecosystem Development in Kenya” (2021) in Energy Research & Social Sciences https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214629621003479
• “How Can We Pay For It All? Understanding the Global Challenge of Financing Climate Change and Sustainable Development Solutions” (2021) Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13412-021-00715-z

* “How Social Ventures Grow: Understanding the Role of Philanthropic Financing in Scaling Social Entrepreneurship” (2020) [co-authored with Saurabh Lall] Business & Society https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0007650320973434

• “Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Goods and Services: a Review for Decision Makers” (2019) Special Issue on Natural Capital/Economic Valuation in Practice, Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy (Summer) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21606544.2019.1623083
• “Chapter 2.6: Drivers of Global Environmental Change: Technology, Innovation, and Global Sustainability” (2019) Global Environment Outlook-6 UN Environment Program https://www.unep.org/resources/global-environment-outlook-6
• “Information and Communication Technology in Shaping Urban Low Carbon Development Pathways” (2018) Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 1.5 Celsius Climate Change Urban Areas Special Issue (February) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1877343517300763
• “Behavioral Ethics: Exploring the New Landscape in Ethics Education” (2017) Journal of Management Education (Fall) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1052562917712308
• “Clean Energy Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa” (2016) in Timothy Devinney, Gideon Markman, Torben Pedersen, Lazlo Tihanyi (eds.) Global Entrepreneurship: Past, Present & Future (Advances in International Management, Volume 29) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304394993_Clean_Energy_Entrepreneurship_in_Sub-Saharan_Africa
• “Local Flood Resiliency in an Era of Global Climate Change: Understanding the Multi-Sectoral Policy Dimensions” (2015) (co-authored with Chris Brooks) Vermont Journal of Environmental Law https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/vermenl17&div=12&id=&page=
• “Corporate Sustainability Reporting in South and Southeast Asia: Trends, Practices, and Implications for Investors”, (2015) co-authored with Dana Kreschowicz) Journal of Asian Business 25:2-3 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256049119_Corporate_Sustainability_Reporting_in_Emerging_Asia_Trends_Practices_and_Implications_for_Investors
• “Critical Research Needs for Successful Food System Adaptation to Climate Change ” (2013) (co-authored with Michelle Miller et al) Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 3:4 Summer: 161-175 https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/206
• “Socially Responsible Investing 3.0: Understanding Finance and Environmental, Social, and Governance Issues in Emerging Markets” (2013) (co-authored with Sonia Kowal) Georgetown Public Policy Review 18:2 (Spring) http://gppreview.com/spring-2013-volume-182/socially-responsible-investing-3-0/
• “Investing in Climate Governance and Equity in a Post-Durban World”,Ethics, Policy and Environment (2012) 15:3, 288–292 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21550085.2012.730237
• “Mobilizing Private Sector Resources Toward Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Action in Asia” (2012) Cities and Climate Change (World Bank: Washington D.C. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2312
• “Toward a New Asian Business and Management Model of Social and Environmental Value Creation” (2011) Asian Business & Management 10:3 327-329 https://link.springer.com/journal/41291/volumes-and-issues/10-3
• “Financial Activism and Global Climate Change: Rise of Investor Driven Governance Networks” (2011) (co-authored with Michael MacLeod) Global Environmental Politics 11:2 54–74

https://direct.mit.edu/glep/article/11/2/54/14509/Financial-Activism-and-Global-Climate-Change-The

• “When Not Every Response to Climate Change is a Good One: Defining Criteria for Sustainable Adaptation.” (2011) (co-authored with Siri Eriksen et al) Climate and Development 3: 7–20

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3763/cdev.2010.0060

• “Creating Integrated Business and Environmental Value within the Context of China’s Circular Economy and Ecological Modernization” (2010) (co-authored with Joseph Sarkis and Zhaohui Wu) Journal of Cleaner Production 18:15 1494-1501 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652610002131
• “Responsible Investing: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Strategic Management in the Global Context” (2010) International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management 2:3 274-283 https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJSSM.2010.038301
• “Investing in Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Business Ventures in the Developing World: Key Lessons and Experiences of EcoEnterprises Fund” (2010) (co-authored with Tammy Newmark) Global Sustainability as a Business Imperative Stoner J. and Wankel C, editors (https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230102811#aboutAuthors)