The Hidden Costs team engages with, extends and mobilizes the research of its global governance partners. Recent research from our partners includes:
Research Publications
| Journal | Title | Cluster Researcher(s) | Link | Publication Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Science Advances | Fish crimes in the global oceans | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2022 | |
| Earth System Governance | Democratising sustainability transformations: Assessing the transformative potential of democratic practices in environmental governance | Michael Bloomfield | Read the publication | 2022 | |
| Nature Social Behaviour | Ocean sustainability for all requires deeper behavioural research | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2022 | |
| Annals of the American Association of Geographers | Species on the move: Environmental change, displacement and conservation. | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2022 | |
| Human Relations | Hybrid (un)freedom in worker hostels in garment supply chains | Andrew Crane, Michael Bloomfield, Genevieve LeBaron | Read the publication | 2022 | |
| The Extractive Industries and Society | The Influence of Home Country Institutions on the Adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility Policies by Transnational Mining Corporations | Peter Dauvergne | Read the publication | 2022 | |
| The Extractive Industries and Society | Sand mining: Stopping the grind of unregulated supply chains | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2022 | |
| Global Environmental Change | China’s Rising Influence on Climate Governance: Forging a Path for the Global South | Peter Dauvergne | Read the publication | 2022 | |
| The Journal of Peasant Studies | Concentration and crises: exploring the deep roots of vulnerability in the global industrial food system | Jennifer Clapp | Read the publication | 2022 | |
| Review of International Political Economy | Cleaning mineral supply chains? Political economies of exploitation and hidden costs of technical fixes | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Review of International Political Economy | The hidden costs of global supply chain solutions | Genevieve LeBaron, Jane Lister | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Journal of Environmental Planning and Management | Health Concerns of Plastics: Energizing the Global Diffusion of Anti-Plastic Norms | Peter Dauvergne | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| The Extractive Industries and Society | Corporate accountability and diplomatic liability in overseas extractive projects | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Extractive Industries and Society | Conflict minerals and battery materials supply chains: A mapping review of responsible sourcing initiatives | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Journal of Peasant Studies | Struggles for land: Comparing resistance movements against agro-industrial and mining investment projects | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Nature Food | The problem with growing corporate concentration and power in the global food system | Jennifer Clapp | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Global Environmental Politics | Transparency in Environmental and Resource Governance: Theories of Change for the EITI | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Energy Research and Social Science | Oil, fisheries and coastal communities: A review of impacts on the environment, livelihoods, space and governance | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Conservation Letters | Understanding and responding to the environmental human rights defenders crisis: The case for conservation action | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Regulation & Governance | Private authority and public policy interactions in global context: Governance spheres for problem solving | Ben Cashore | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| The Journal of Environment & Development | The Politics of Transnational Advocacy Against Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian Extractive Projects in the Global South | Peter Dauvergne | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Global Governance | Corporate Governance and the Environmental Politics of Shipping | Peter Dauvergne, Jane Lister | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Journal of Political Ecology | Crisis conservation and green extraction: biodiversity offsets as spaces of double exception | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| One Earth | Exploring the future of fishery conflict through narrative scenarios | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Journal of Supply Chain Management | The Role of Supply Chains in the Global Business of Forced Labour | Genevieve LeBaron | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Journal of Political Ecology | Crisis conservation and green extraction: biodiversity offsets as spaces of double exception | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Tobacco Prevention and Cessation | The value of studying supply chains for tobacco control | Michael Bloomfield | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Geoforum | Reconciling violence: Policing the politics of recognition | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Polity Press | Gold | Michael Bloomfield | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Fish and Fisheries | Ethical considerations for research on small‐scale fisheries and blue crimes | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Book (Fernwood Publishing) | The Fair Trade Handbook: Building a Better World, Together | Gavin Fridell | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Climate Policy | Fossil fuels, climate change, and the COVID-19 crisis: pathways for a just and green post-pandemic recovery | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Science | WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies | Daniel Pauly, Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Business and Human Rights Journal | Wages: An Overlooked Dimension of Business and Human Rights in Global Supply Chains | Genevieve LeBaron | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| The Extractive Industries and Society | Conflict minerals and battery materials supply chains: A mapping review of responsible sourcing initiatives | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2021 | |
| Review of International Political Economy | The hidden costs of environmental upgrading in global value chains | Stefano Ponte | Read the publication | 2020 | |
| Investment Treaty News | Incorporating corporate social responsibility within investment treaty law and arbitral practice: Progress or fantasy remedy? | Claire Cutler, David Lark | Read the publication | 2020 | |
| Review of International Political Economy | The political economy of inclusion and exclusion: state, labour and the costs of supply chain integration in the Eastern Caribbean | Gavin Fridell | Read the publication | 2020 | |
| Review of International Political Economy | Is artificial intelligence greening global supply chains? Exposing the political economy of environmental costs | Peter Dauvergne | Read the publication | 2020 | |
| Review of International Political Economy | Regulating sustainable minerals in electronics supply chains: local power struggles and the ‘hidden costs’ of global tin supply chain governance | Kate Macdonald | Read the publication | 2020 | |
| Review of International Political Economy | The hidden costs of law in the governance of global supply chains: the turn to arbitration | Claire Cutler, David Lark | Read the publication | 2020 | |
| Conflicts, commodities and the environmental geopolitics of supply chains* (Forthcoming) | Philippe Le Billon | 2020 | |||
| Polity Press | Gold* (Forthcoming) | Michael Bloomfield | 2020 | ||
| Ecological Economics | South-South trade and sustainable development: The case of Ceylon tea | Michael Bloomfield | Read the publication | 2020 | |
| Polity | Combatting Modern Slavery: Why Labour Governance is Failing and How We Can Fix It* (Forthcoming) | Genevieve LeBaron | 2020 | ||
| Ecological Economics | Private sustainability standards as tools for empowering southern pro-regulatory coalitions? Collaboration, conflict and the pursuit of sustainable palm oil | Kate Macdonald | Read the publication | 2020 | |
| Annals of the American Association of Geographers | Deadly Environmental Governance: Authoritarianism, Eco-populism, and the Repression of Environmental and Land Defenders | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2019 | |
| Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space | Just cuts for fossil fuels? Supply-side carbon constraints and energy transition | Philippe Le Billon | Read the publication | 2019 |