Unilever's strategic response to sustainable development and its implications for public affairs professionals

Journal of Public Affairs

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 224-229

  Lingard, Thomas ^a  

^a UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84864308417     PISSN: 14723891     EISSN: 14791854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pa.1436     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. See Hardin, G. (1968) 'The Tragedy of the Commons' in Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol. 162, no. 3859, pp. 1243-1248
2. December 1968. Hardin describes the 'tragedy of the commons' as a situation where individuals acting independently in their own self-interest deplete a shared resource, even if ultimately this is not in their own long-term interests. The title is a reference to an example he cites of land tenure in medieval Europe where herders share a common area of land for cattle, where it is in their individual interests to maximise the number of cattle they have on the land, even though the consequence is damage to the land through over-grazing, compromising its value to them in the long term.
3. For more information on the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, please visit:
4. Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil