Leonie Dendler has studied environmental science at Leuphana University Lueneburg (Germany) and Queen´s University Belfast (UK) focusing on environmental management, communication and law. Leonie has gained practical experience in the retail, waste, and research sector. Since 2008 Leonie is a PhD researcher at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (Manchester Business School) and doctoral student at the Sustainable Consumption Institute (University of Manchester).
The main aim of Leonie’s PhD project is to investigate the prospects and different visions for an effective implementation of a sustainability ‘meta label’ to support ‘more’ sustainable consumption. During the first part of the project case studies of existing product information schemes (EU eco-, EU energy-, MSC and Fair Trade label) are used to explore how product information schemes try to shape the production and consumption system and identify processes, factors and actors that influence their effectiveness. In a second step the prospects and visions for an effective and legitimised sustainability ‘meta label’ are studied based on qualitative interviews with key actors and experts.
Leonie has published in different labelling and governance related areas, been involved in professional public service and presented parts of her research at various international conferences including the European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production, the Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change and the Annual International Sustainable Development Research Conference.
Publications:
- Upham, P, Tomei, J, Dendler, L “Governance and legitimacy aspects of the UK biofuel carbon and sustainability reporting system.” Energy Policy (in press).
- Upham, P, Dendler, L, Bleda, M “Carbon labelling of grocery products: public perceptions and potential emissions reductions.” Journal of Cleaner Production, 19 (2011), 348-355.
- Dendler, L “Sustainability meta labelling. A discussion of potential implementation issues”, Tyndall Working Paper 145 (2010).
- Dendler, L, “Sustainability meta labelling. Key Actors and Factors for a potential Institutionalisation”. Paper presented at the Knowledge Collaboration & Learning for Sustainable Innovation ERSCP-EMSU conference, TU Delft & The Hague University (Delft, October 2010).
- Upham, P; Tomei, J; Dendler, L “Regulatory co-production and legitimacy: carbon and sustainability reporting under UK biofuel certification regulations”. Paper presented at Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. 'Social dimensions of environmental change and governance', Environmental Policy Research Centre; Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin, October 2010).
- Dendler, L, “The role of product labelling schemes in shaping more sustainable production and consumption systems”. Paper presented at Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. 'Social dimensions of environmental change and governance', Environmental Policy Research Centre; Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin, October 2010).
