Dr Natalia Yakovleva 

Programme Leader MSc Sustainable Development  

Business Law and Sport  

Email:

Natalia.Yakovleva@winchester.ac.uk  

Phone:

01962 827302 

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Biography

Natalia joined the Winchester Business School in March 2011. She has a degree in Economics and PhD in Environmental Studies. She is an author of “Corporate social responsibility in the mining industries”, Ashgate Publishing, 2005. Prior to joining the Winchester Business School, Natalia worked at the ESRC Research Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS), Cardiff University.

Expertise

Natalia specialises in corporate social responsibility, sustainable production and consumption, and business and community relations. She has conducted research on social conflicts in the extractive sector in Argentina; interactions between large and small-scale miners in Ghana; community engagement and oil pipeline development in Russia; and sustainability of food supply chains in the UK.

Publications

Yakovleva, N. (Forthcoming 2012) Land, oil and indigenous people in the Russian North: A case of oil pipeline and Evenki in Aldan, In: Emma Gilberthorpe and Gavin Hilson (Eds.) Natural Resource Extraction and Indigenous Livelihoods: Development Challenges in an Era of Globalisation, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.

Yakovleva, N. (Forthcoming) Resource exploitation, corporations and communities, In: Bob Lee (Ed.), Sustainable Solutions: Issues of Resource Use and Technological Innovations.

Yakovleva, N., Vazquez-Brust, D. (2012) Stakeholder Perspectives on CSR of Mining MNCs in Argentina, Journal of Business Ethics, 106(2), pp. 191-211, DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0989-4, Available online http://www.springerlink.com/content/4l36658726883255/

Yakovleva, N., Sarkis, J. and Sloan, T. (2012) Sustainable benchmarking of supply chains: the case of the food industry, International Journal of Production Research, 50(5), pp. 1297-1317, DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2011.571926, Available online http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00207543.2011.571926

Mutti, D., Yakovleva, N., Vazquez-Brust, D., Di Marco, M.H. (2012) Corporate social responsibility in the mining industry: Perspectives from stakeholder groups in Argentina, Resources Policy, 37(2), pp. 212-222, DOI:10.1016/j.resourpol.2011.05.001, In Press, Available online http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301420711000262

Yakovleva, N. (2011) Oil pipeline construction in Eastern Siberia: Implications for indigenous people, Geoforum, 42, pp.708-719, DOI:10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.05.005, Available online http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301420711000262

Yakovleva, N. (2011) Oil sector developments in Russia and indigenous people, OGEL: Oil, Gas and Energy Law Intelligence, 9 (4), Special Issue: Indigenous People and Resource Development, pp. 1-28, http://www.ogel.org/article.asp?key=3139

Yakovleva, N. (2011) Book Review. Treasure of the Earth: need, greed and a sustainable future by Saleem H. Ali, Published 2009 by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, UK, ISBN: 978-0-3001-4161-0. International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 46 (1/2), p. 115.

Yakovleva, N., Sarkis, J., Sloan, T.W. 2010. Sustainability benchmarking in the food supply chain. In: Ulf Sonesson, Johanna Berlin and Friederike Ziegler (Eds.) Environmental Assessment and Management in the Food Industry, Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge. http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx?bookID=1564

Yakovleva, N. And Munday, M. 2010. Pipeline development and community participation, BRASS Research Report, BRASS Research Centre. http://www.brass.cf.ac.uk/uploads/Pipeline_Development_and_Community_Participation.pdf

Yakovleva, N., Sarkis, J. And Sloan, T.W. 2009. Sustainability benchmarking of the food supply chains, George Perkins Marsh Institute Working Paper Series, Clark University, No. 2009-02. http://www.clarku.edu/departments/marsh/news/WP2009-02.pdf

Yakovleva, N. and Flynn, A. 2009. Organic production: adoption of a niche strategy by the mainstream food system, International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, 4(1), pp. 43-60. http://kacol.library.ingentaconnect.com/content/ind/ijisd/2009/00000004/00000001

Nyame, F.K., Grant, J.A. and Yakovleva, N (2009) Perspectives on migration patterns in Ghana's mining industry, Resources Policy, 34(1-2), pp. 6-11. http://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/jrpoli/v34y2009i1-2p6-11.html

Yakovleva, N.  2008. Models for community development: a case of the mining industry. In: Marsden, T. (ed) Sustainable Communities: New Spaces for Planning, Participation and Engagement, Elsevier. http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?K=9780080453637

Crate, S. and Yakovleva, N. 2008. Indigenous people and mineral resource extraction in Russia: the case of diamonds. In: Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh and Saleem Ali (Eds) Earth Matters: Indigenous Peoples, the Extractive Industries and Corporate Social Responsibility, Greenleaf Publishing. http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/productdetail.kmod?productid=2764

Yakovleva, N. 2007. Perspectives on female participation in the artisanal and small-scale mining: a case of the Birim North District of Ghana, Resources Policy, 32(1-2), pp. 29-41. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0301420707000207

Yakovleva, N. 2007. Measuring the sustainability of the food supply chain: a case study of the UK, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 9(1), pp. 75-100. http://kacol.library.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cjoe/2007/00000009/00000001/art00005

Hilson, G., Yakovleva, N., Banchirigah, S.M. 2007. ‘To move or not to move’: reflections on the resettlement of artisanal miners in the Western Region of Ghana, African Affairs, 106 (424), pp. 413-436. http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/content/106/424/413.full

Hilson, G., Yakovleva, N. 2007. Strained relations: a critical analysis of the mining conflict in Prestea, Ghana, Political Geography, 26 (1) pp. 98-119. http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/content/106/424/413.full.pdf

Jenkins, H.M. and Yakovleva, N. 2006. Corporate social responsibility in the mining industry: exploring trends in social and environmental disclosure, Journal of Cleaner Production, 14 (3-4), pp. 271-284. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0959652605000375

Yakovleva, N. 2005. Corporate Social Responsibility in the Mining Industries, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot. http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754642688

Yakovleva, N. and Flynn, A. 2004. Innovation and sustainability in the food system: a case of chicken production and consumption in the UK, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 6(3-4), pp. 227-250. http://kacol.library.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cjoe/2004/00000006/F0020003/art00003

Yakovleva, N. and Alabaster, T. 2003. Tri-sector partnership for community development in mining: a case study of the SAPI Foundation and Target Fund in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Resources Policy, 29(3-4), pp. 83-98. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0301420704000315  

Yakovleva, N.P., Alabaster, T., Petrova, P.G. (2000) Natural resource use in the Russian North: a case study of diamond mining in the Republic of Sakha, Environmental Management and Health, 11(4), pp. 318-336. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=871325

Research Interests

Natalia is currently pursuing research on corporate social responsibility in developing and emerging economies.  She is interested in corporate sustainability performance, sustainability reporting, stakeholder engagement, innovation for sustainable development and sustainable supply chains. 

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

British Academy grant for international collaboration “Governance challenges in artisanal and small-scale mining in West Africa”, 2008.

Member of American Association of Geographers.

Corresponding member of the Argentinean Academy of Environmental Sciences.