Research

My research focuses on sustainable supply chain governance and the impacts of digital technologies on environmental issues.

PUBLICATIONS

Book

  1. van der Ven, H. 2019. Beyond Greenwash? Explaining Credibility in Transnational Eco-Labeling. New York: Oxford University Press.

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Dauvergne, P. and and van der Ven, H. 2025. Surging Eco-Anxiety: Consequences for Global Environmental Politics. Global Environmental Politics. [Ahead of print].
  2. van der Ven, H. and Bear, K. 2025. Sustainable Supply Chains in the Forest Bioeconomy: A Systematic Review. Sustainability 17(21): 9738.
  3. Provost, V. and van der Ven, H. 2025. Mis-Framing Marine Plastic Pollution on TikTok. Environmental Communication. [Ahead of print].
  4. van der Ven, H. 2024. Can Digital Activism Change Sustainable Supply Chain Practices in the Agricultural Bioeconomy? Evidence from #Buttergate. Applied Sciences 14(24): 11893
  5. Elnur, R. and van der Ven, H. 2024. Bioenergy Discourse: A Comparison Across Media and Technologies. BioProducts Business 9(3): 39-52.
  6. van der Ven, H., Corry, D., Elnur, R., Provost, V.J., Syukron, M., and Tappauf, N. 2024. Does Artificial Intelligence Bias Perceptions of Environmental Challenges? Environmental Research Letters 20(1): 014009.
  7. van der Ven, H., Corry, D., Elnur, R., Provost, V.J., Syukron, M. 2024. Generative AI and Social Media May Exacerbate the Climate Crisis. Global Environmental Politics: 24(2): 9–18.
  8. van der Ven, H. 2023. A Comparison of Stakeholder Engagement Practices in Voluntary Sustainability Standards. Regulation & Governance 18(3): 820–36. 
  9. van der Ven, H and Barmes, D. 2023. The Uneasy Marriage of Private Standards and Public Policies for Sustainable Commodity Governance. Business Strategy and the Environment 32(8): 5161-5173.
  10. van der Ven, H. 2022. Effects of Stakeholder Input on Voluntary Sustainability Standards. Global Environmental Change 77: 1-10.
  11. Fraser, E. and van der Ven, H. 2022. Increasing Transparency in Global Supply Chains: The Case of the Fast Fashion Industry. Sustainability 14(18): 11520.
  12. van der Ven, H., Sun, Y., and Cashore, B. 2021. Sustainable Commodity Governance and the Global South. Ecological Economics 186: 1-7.
  13. Cashore, B., Knudsen, J.S., Moon, J. and van der Ven, H. 2021. Private Authority and Public Policy Interactions in Global Context: Governance Spheres for Problem Solving. Regulation & Governance 15(4): 1166-1182.
  14. van der Ven, H. and Sun, Y. 2021. Varieties of Crises: Comparing the Politics of COVID-19 and Climate Change. Global Environmental Politics 21(1): 13-22.
  15. Sun, Y. and van der Ven, H. 2021. Swimming in their own direction: Explaining domestic variation in homegrown sustainability governance for aquaculture in Asia. Ecological Economics 167: 1-11.
  16. Bullock, G. and van der Ven, H. 2020. The Shadow of the Consumer: Analyzing the Importance of Consumers to the Uptake and Sophistication of Ratings, Certifications, and Eco-Labels. Organization & Environment 33(1): 75-95.
  17. Singer, A and van der Ven, H. 2019. Beyond market, firm, and state: Mapping the ethics of global value chains. Business and Society Review 124(3):325-343.
  18. van der Ven, H. 2018. Gatekeeper Power: Understanding the Influence of Lead Firms over Transnational Sustainability Standards. Review of International Political Economy 25(5): 624-646.
  19. van der Ven, H., Rothacker, C. and Cashore, B. 2018. Do eco-labels prevent deforestation? Lessons from non-state market driven governance in the soy, palm oil, and cocoa sectors. Global Environmental Change 52: 141-151.
  20. van der Ven, H. and Cashore, B. 2018. Forest Certification: The Challenge of Measuring Impacts. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 32: 104-111.
  21. Bernstein, S. and H. van der Ven. 2017. Best Practices in Global Governance. Review of International Studies 43(3): 534-556.
  22. van der Ven, H., Bernstein, S., and Hoffmann, M. 2017. Valuing the Contributions of Non-State and Subnational Actors to Climate Governance. Global Environmental Politics 17(1): 1-20.
  23. van der Ven, H. 2015. Correlates of Rigorous and Credible Transnational Governance: A Cross-Sectoral Analysis of Best Practice Compliance in Eco-Labeling. Regulation & Governance 9(3): 276-293.
  24. van der Ven, H. 2014. Socializing the C-Suite: Why Some Big-Box Retailers are ‘Greener’ than Others. Business and Politics 16(1): 31-63.
  25. van der Ven, H. 2013. Bringing Values Back into CSR. Business Ethics Journal Review 1(16): 99-105.

Book Chapters

  1. van der Ven, H. 2025. Mapping the interlinkages between voluntary sustainability standards and due diligence. The Future of Sustainable Trade: Due Diligence Initiatives, Voluntary Sustainability Standards and Developing Countries, ed. Santiago Fernandez de Cordoba. Geneva: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
  2. Pineau, P.O., Jegen, M., Lachapelle, E., Leroux, J., and van der Ven, H. 2024. Environnement et changements climatiques. Le Monde Après COVID, eds. J.F. Mérand and J. Welch. Montreal: Université de Montreal Press.
  3. van der Ven, H. 2021. Comparing Voluntary Sustainability Standards: Blindspots, Biases, and Pathways Forward. In The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics, eds. J. Sowers, S. VanDeveer, and E. Weinthal eds. New York: Oxford University Press.
  4. van der Ven, H. 2019. “Private Accountability in Global Value Chains.” In Global Environmental Governance and the Accountability Trap, eds. S. Park and T. Kramarz. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 63-85.
  5. Bernstein, S. and van der Ven, H. 2017. “Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics.” In International Politics and Institutions In Time, ed. Orfeo Fioretos. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 293-317.

Special Issues

  1. Cashore, B., Moon, J., Knudsen, J.S., and van der Ven, H. 2021. Private Authority and Public Policy in Global Context: Governance Spheres for Problem Solving. Regulation & Governance 15(4).
  2. van der Ven, H., Sun, Y., and Cashore, B. 2021. Sustainable Commodity Governance and the Global South. Ecological Economics 186.