The COVID-19 Crisis, Retailing and Sustainable Development

Jones, Peter ORCID: 0000-0002-9566-9393 and Comfort, Daphne (2020) The COVID-19 Crisis, Retailing and Sustainable Development. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783030138950

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Abstract

This chapter explores some of the relationships between retailing and sustainable development through the lens of the COVID-19 crisis. The chapter provides an outline of the COVID-19 crisis, and explores some of the relationships between retailing and sustainable development as illuminated by the COVID-19 crisis. The chapter suggests that the Covid-19 crisis has not only posed a range of complex major challenges for retailers but that it has also signalled some environmental changes that may be central to the transition to a more sustainable future, highlighted some of the inherent contradictions within the concept of sustainable development, and suggested some radical solutions to the challenges of sustainability. The chapter offers an accessible review of some of the relationships between retailing and sustainable development at a very testing time for the majority of retailers.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	COVID-19; crisis; retailing: sustainable development; business model
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business > HF5387 Business Ethics H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business > HF5428 Retail Trade
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences
Research Priority Areas:	Applied Business & Technology
Depositing User:	Anne Pengelly
Date Deposited:	12 May 2020 11:23
Last Modified:	03 Aug 2023 09:23
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/8350

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