Goal 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production

This project synthesises contemporary research on green hotels to advance conceptual clarity and sustainability governance in hospitality studies. Based on a systematic quantitative literature review of 318 peer-reviewed journal articles published between 2019 and 2023, the study examines how environmental sustainability has been conceptualised and operationalised in the global hotel… Read More

This project examined how travellers interpret environmental claims communicated by hotels and how these claims shape perceptions of credibility, trust, and sustainable accommodation choice. The research comprised a qualitative study of green hotel communication, focusing on messages conveyed through in-room signage, hotel websites, and promotional materials, alongside visible environmental cues… Read More

Electronic waste is one of the fastest-growing waste streams globally, with mobile phones contributing significantly to the problem. To support UNEP’s goal of advancing circularity in the electronics sector, Social Marketing @ Griffith led the design and pilot testing of a multilingual global consumer survey focused on refurbished mobile phones. Read More

Australia’s recreational fishing sector faces mounting sustainability challenges, with heavy reliance on a few vulnerable species such as snapper, dhufish, and pearl perch. This FRDC-funded project explored a more collaborative path: voluntary behaviour change to diversify target species and reduce pressure on overfished stocks. The project is set across… Read More

The Griffith University Repair Café is a student-led initiative aimed at giving new life to broken items that would otherwise be thrown away. The café seeks to educate people to view their possessions in a different light. The skilled technicians at the Repair Café can fix household items, clothing, small… Read More

With a focus on SDG12, this book generates insights and key takeaways into the role of family businesses in sustaining the livelihoods of current and future generations.

Although foreign direct investment (FDI) allows emerging market firms (EMFs) to experience various institutions and learn to innovate, we know little about the] effects of exposure to diverse institutions on EMFs’ environmental innovation—a sustainable approach to pursuing economic growth. Incorporating the institutional logics perspective with the learning-from-diversity… Read More

We have developed a Repair Cafe initiative within our Griffith University. Griffith Uni has 5 campuses and we are offering Repair Cafes (with over 153 staff and students and community members who have signed up to volunteer). The aim of the project is to promote and elevate the… Read More

The Australian Repair Summit is an annual national Summit that brings together a wide range of stakeholders interested in or working in the repair sector, who genuinely want to engage in open and respectful dialogue; with industry, other sectors and the community at large about the legislative and policy changes… Read More

Late in 2022, Griffith University launched a new Containers for Change collection program across its Nathan and Gold Coast campuses. Each bottle donated through the Containers for Change collection bins will raise funds for Griffith’s Brighter Futures Scholarship Program.