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Dorothee Nuss­bruch

Postdoc

Subjects
Management Qualitative methods Disaster Partnership Crisis

Primary research areas

Gov­ernance of En­vir­on­ment­al and Ex­tract­ive Fron­ti­ers

Gov­ernance of min­ing and ex­tract­ive activ­it­ies un­der con­di­tions of so­cio-eco­lo­gic­al un­cer­tainty, with a fo­cus on know­ledge pro­duc­tion, due di­li­gence, and ac­count­ab­il­ity across loc­al, na­tion­al, and glob­al scales.

Busi­ness-So­ci­ety Re­la­tions in Crisis Con­texts

Cross-sec­tor col­lab­or­a­tion and con­test­a­tion among pub­lic, private, and civil so­ci­ety act­ors in con­texts of dis­aster re­sponse, re­si­li­ence, and so­cio-eco­lo­gic­al crisis.

So­cio-Spa­tial Ap­proaches to Or­gan­iz­a­tions and Gov­ernance

Ana­lys­is of how spa­tial re­la­tions, i.e., place, scale, and ter­rit­ori­al­ity, shape or­gan­iz­a­tion­al prac­tices, power dy­nam­ics, and in­clu­sion/ex­clu­sion in gov­ernance sys­tems.

Qual­it­at­ive and In­ter­pret­ive Ap­proaches to Gov­ernance and Crisis

Qual­it­at­ive re­search on gov­ernance and crisis dy­nam­ics, in­clud­ing in­ter­views, archiv­al and dis­course ana­lys­is, with case study designs.

Build­ing in­clus­ive gov­ernance for un­cer­tain fu­tures

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher studying business-society relations and governance in contexts of crisis and environmental uncertainty. Trained as a geographer and grounded in critical management research, my work examines how knowledge, power and legitimacy shape collaboration and responsibility when economic activity is deeply entangled with social and ecological systems.

My PhD at Copenhagen Business School focused on cross-sector collaboration in humanitarian contexts, highlighting the role of local businesses and the systemic barriers to their inclusion in crisis governance. Building on this, my current postdoctoral research examines emerging deep‑sea mining regimes, exploring how environmental knowledge, due diligence and precaution are produced and contested across governance scales.

Prior to starting my PhD, I worked with the World Food Programme, the UN Connecting Business Initiative, and the Harvard Kennedy School as a Mercator Fellow, shaping my commitment to bridging research and practice.

Recent research projects

CBS HU­MAC: Private-Sec­tor En­gage­ment in Hu­man­it­ari­an Ac­tion

HU­MAC — fun­ded by Velux Fonden — re­searches busi­ness–hu­man­it­ari­an col­lab­or­a­tion, ex­plor­ing how part­ner­ships can be or­gan­ized ef­fect­ively, eth­ic­ally, and sus­tain­ably.
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FRON­TI­ERS

“Fron­ti­ers of nat­ur­al re­source and sustain­ability gov­ernance for a just en­ergy trans­ition” is a five year Carls­berg fun­ded pro­ject led by Pro­fess­or Karin Buh­mann. We study min­ing on land and at sea, in­vestor lever­age, risk based due di­li­gence and Rights of Nature to en­able a just and fair en­ergy trans­ition.

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