Peter Dauvergne, Global Environmental Change, 2018
All around the world, towns, cities, and legislatures are banning some uses of plastic, such as for grocery bags and as microbeads in consumer products. Yet the amount of plastic flowing into the oceans is on track to double from 2010 to 2025. Why?
Philippe Le Billon, Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 2018
Post-war situations can present an opportune context for white-collar crime in resource sectors – including corruption, tax evasion, land dispossession, and illegal resource exploitation. This paper investigates various forms of white-collar crime and associated human rights abuses, and points at biased processes of ‘criminalization’.
Natasha Affolder, The Politics of Private Transnational Governance by Contract, 2017
The chapter provides a close look at a form of transnational contracting that sits uneasily between the ‘economic’ and the ‘environmental’. It deals with a brief introduction to the forest carbon market.
Michael John Bloomfield, MIT Press, 2017
The response from the jewelry industry to a campaign for ethically sourced gold as a case study in the power of business in global environmental politics.
Jennifer Clapp, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2017
This contribution argues that the food sustainability agenda in global food governance arrangements is becoming ‘trade-ified’. It shows that international trade has become normalized in these settings not only as being compatible with, but also as a key delivery mechanism for, food system sustainability.
Jennifer Clapp and Gyorgy Scrinis, Globalizations, 2017
Big Food corporations have capitalized on nutritionism—the reduction of food’s nutritional value to its individual nutrients—as a means by which to enhance their power and position in global processed and packaged food markets. Drawing on the literatures on nutrition and corporate power, we show that Big Food companies have used nutritional positioning to bolster their power and influence in the sector.
Andrew Crane, Genevieve LeBaron, Jean Allain, and Laya Behbahani, Regulation & Governance, 2017
Little is known about how forced labor arises within domestic supply chains concentrated within national borders, producing products for domestic consumption. We conduct one of the first studies of forced labor in domestic supply chains, through a cross‐industry comparison of the regulatory gaps surrounding forced labor in the United Kingdom.
A. Claire Cutler, Routledge, 2017
Important transformations in the global political economy associated with economic globalization, the advent of flexible and fragmented production, and the growing authority of transnational corporations (TNCs) have contributed to the prominence of global value chains (GVCs), also known as global commodity chains (GCCs), global supply chains and global production networks.
Gastón Gordillo, Journal of Political Ecology, 2017
This essay offers some general reflections on the destructive dimensions of corporatized forms of food production in contemporary South America.
Peter W. Klein, The Star, 2017
Canada has been a leader in knowledge mobilization, but it’s a public outreach mandate that is just a decade old and by most accounts the U.S. is far behind with these efforts.
