From beekeeping to habitat stewardship: teaching social innovation for biodiversity thinking in business schools

Rafael Ziegler, Nadia Ponce Morales and Mathieu Bouchard

Chapter 18 in The Elgar Companion to Social Innovation and the Sustainable Development Goals, 2026, pp 375-395 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Even though halting biodiversity loss is enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), current drivers tend to enforce tendencies in the direction of biodiversity loss and unsustainability. A focus on tackling direct drivers of biodiversity destruction surfaces social innovations relevant to management education. However, the central contribution of management education for biodiversity protection is critical engagement with indirect drivers and current ways of “doing business”. To this end, the chapter proposes biodiversity thinking for management education as comprised of reflection on values, environmental literacy, and the joint exploration of both in service-oriented learning and a novel educational approach based on individual assignments, lectures, and foresight work in groups. A case evaluation shows the approach to enable critical reflection on biodiversity values at the levels of individuals but also that instrumental values prevail in group work. Fostering biodiversity thinking requires embedding course work in a long-term, whole-of-university sustainability approach.

Keywords: Biodiversity; Social innovation; Sustainable development goals; Business education; Foresight; Management education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035326037
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