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Deborah Gallagher

Deborah Gallagher

Professor of the Practice Emeritus of Environmental Social Systems
Environmental Social Systems
deb.gallagher@duke.edu
Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708-0328
9 Circuit Drive, 4104 Environment Hall, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Carbon accounting for the translation of net-zero targets into business operations

Journal Article British Accounting Review · March 1, 2025 This paper explores the translation of the global decarbonization goal into net-zero organizational targets. Building on the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework developed by Ostrom and focusing on the case of the Science Based Targets in ... Full text Cite

Use of Fracking Information Disclosure Policies to Reduce Uncertainty in Risk-Based Decisions

Journal Article Review of Policy Research · May 1, 2021 The hydraulic fracturing (fracking) boom has outpaced both our understanding of its potential impacts on human health and the environment, as well as the legal and regulatory frameworks in place to govern it. We conducted interviews in Pennsylvania with in ... Full text Cite

Acknowledging the challenges of pedagogical innovation: the case of integrating research, teaching, and the practice of environmental leadership

Journal Article Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences · September 15, 2019 Providing opportunities for community engagement and research is part of many environmental sciences and studies programs. Because of the constraints of the typical classroom environment, we need to develop innovative pedagogical tools to allow students to ... Full text Cite

Sustainable business

Chapter · June 1, 2018 Full text Cite

Heroes no more: Businesses practice collaborative leadership to confront climate change

Chapter · January 1, 2018 The time is ripe for enlightened business leaders to scale up corporate sustainability by engaging responsibly on climate policy. ... Full text Cite

ISO 14001: Greening management systems

Journal Article · September 20, 2017 Cite

Environmental management systems in the US and Thailand a case comparison

Chapter · January 1, 2017 The one possible national difference was that both Thai firms’ top environmental management system (EMS) priorities were regulatory compliance issues, whereas both US firms were more focused on eco-efficiency priorities. The EMS was developed over a 14-mon ... Full text Cite

Climate Change Leadership as Sustainability Leadership: From the C-Suite to the Conference of the Parties

Journal Article Journal of Leadership Studies · December 1, 2016 Corporate leaders are increasingly called to enact roles as climate change leaders because of escalating risks to production and operations from man-made climate change. An examination of corporate leaders' roles within a United Nations Global Compact init ... Full text Cite

Participant perceptions of consensus-based, marine mammal take reduction planning

Journal Article Marine Policy · November 1, 2015 This study employs Structural Equation Models (SEMs) to systematically analyze the components of a multi-stakeholder negotiation in an applied setting. It characterizes participant perceptions of a multi-stakeholder, consensus-based negotiation process use ... Full text Cite

A Story About People and Porpoises: Consensus-Based Decision Making in the Shadow of Political Action.

Journal Article Environmental management · October 2015 Professionally facilitated multi-stakeholder meetings of marine mammal Take Reduction Teams, such as the Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Team, are mandated by the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. These meetings employ consensus-based decision-maki ... Full text Cite

Why environmental leadership?

Chapter · January 1, 2012 Full text Cite

Advocates for environmental justice: The role of the champion in public participation implementation

Journal Article Local Environment · November 1, 2009 That segment of the community I would say is just in general pretty disenfranchised. We found that if you want participation you have to go to them. I mean there are days when you just need to go knock on the door. Brownfields developer in a poor urban nei ... Full text Cite

The Role of the Champion in Public Participation Implementation

Journal Article Local Environment · 2009 This article considers the role that champions play as advocates for socioeconomically disadvantaged community member involvement in environmental management decision-making. Six case studies of brownfields redevelopment projects located in poor urban neig ... Link to item Cite

Promoting community involvement at brownfields sites in socio-economically disadvantaged neighbourhoods

Journal Article Journal of Environmental Planning and Management · September 2, 2008 Brownfields programmes provide environmental justice to distressed communities by applying private sector remediation and real estate expertise to abandoned and contaminated properties. This study examines how brownfields developers and community support o ... Full text Cite

The professionalization of sustainability

Journal Article · December 1, 2007 Cite

Environmental management systems in the US and Thailand: A case comparison

Journal Article Greener Management International · January 1, 2004 The implementation of an environmental management system (EMS) is a highly discretionary decision process: even for businesses using the common template of the ISO 14001 international voluntary standard, EMSs may differ in their scope, priorities, substanc ... Full text Cite

Environmental management systems: Opportunities for improved environmental and business strategy?

Journal Article Environmental Quality Management · January 1, 2000 Less than four years after publication of ISO 14001, thousands of organizations worldwide have adopted the standard. In this article, researchers working with the National Database on Environmental Management Systems (NDEMS) review some preliminary data on ... Full text Cite