Peter Dauvergne
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 132202 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Peter Dauvergne |
| PRENOMES | Peter |
| SOBRENOME | Dauvergne |
| ASSINATURA | DAUVERGNE P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2887-8168 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 76 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 483 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
The power of biojustice environmentalism in the Global South
Guatemala is severely polluted with plastic waste, with open burning, illegal dumping, and leaking landfills causing widespread harms. What actions, this article asks, are local people taking to reduce this pollution? What, more broadly, does this suggest for the power of grassroots environmentalism to influence plastics governance in Guatemala? Drawing on fieldwork in 2023 and 2024, our study finds that local efforts to eliminate single-use plas…
Global environmental governance after liberal environmentalism
Global environmental governance has long been predicated on a normative compromise, commonly referred to as ‘liberal environmentalism’, which posits that addressing global environmental challenges requires the promotion and maintenance of a liberal economic order. Today, however, the global economy is fragmenting across its material, ideational, and institutional dimensions due to renewed geopolitical rivalry and the resurgence of state capitalis…
International biodiversity negotiations
Corporate earth system accountability
Microplastics released as consumers use products are a significant, yet largely unregulated, source of global pollution. Enhancing corporate earth system accountability for this contamination is essential for protecting planetary health. This Perspective develops this argument and identifies governance strategies through a case study of one consumer product: tires. By mass, the chemical-laden particles emitted as tires wear and tear on roads – wh…
Global Environmental Politics amid Geopolitical Turbulence
Over the past decade, three overlapping trends have fundamentally reshaped and now characterize the global geopolitical order: the rise of emerging powers, increasing military conflicts, and growing international trade tensions. These features of the global order are deeply connected to global environmental politics (GEP) and governance, as a warming world spurs some aspects of geopolitical change, while the geopolitical dynamics themselves have …
Competing axes of power in the global plastics treaty
Headlines in December 2024 proclaimed the “collapse” and “failure” of United Nations plastics treaty negotiations in Busan, South Korea. This is, however, an overly simplistic and pessimistic portrayal. Progress on less contentious issues was made, and the meeting was adjourned with a commitment to continue negotiating in 2025 on the basis of the “Chair’s text.” Significantly, at the closing plenary, a majority of states voiced support for a “hig…
Artificial intelligence and ESG in resources-intensive industries
The implementation of artificial intelligence systems to ensure supply chain sustainability is increasing in numerous industries. • AI is mobilized to address specific sustainability issues in the fisheries, mining, plastics, and forestry industries. • AI has the potential to address identified issues but generally risks increasing consumption patterns of these industries, thus leading to unsustainable growth. • On one hand, AI has the ability to…
The Global Politics of a Protected Earth
The vision of humans living sustainably on a “protected earth” has a long history. Support for this vision has been surging in recent years, coming into sharp relief in 2022 when negotiators at the Convention on Biological Diversity’s fifteenth Conference of the Parties set a target of protecting 30 percent of land and sea by 2030. This article explains why this global green vision is gaining power as an ordering principle in world politics. Thre…
Surging Eco-Anxiety
Eco-anxiety is surging as environmental crises escalate. As the ecopsychology literature reveals, the effects and intensity of eco-anxiety vary across cultures, circumstances, and personality types. Eco-anxiety can prompt some people to disengage from environmentalism and can even become a debilitating disorder. Yet, high eco-anxiety also correlates with pro-environmental lifestyle choices, increased participation in environmental collective acti…
Incremental progress or dangerous incrementalism? The case of tire wear pollution in global environmental governance
Tire wear and tear is among the largest sources of global microplastic pollution. Interviews conducted in 2024 appear to indicate ‘incremental progress’ toward improving governance of tire wear. Knowledge of the ecological and health consequences is increasing. Pressure is growing for greater producer responsibility. Global standards to limit tire abrasion are forming. Regulations are being implemented to address chemical contamination, such as i…
Reflections on the first Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement
This commentary reflects on the first Global Stocktake (GST) under the Paris Agreement on climate change to offer insights for advancing climate actions and informing future GST cycles. The first GST, which concluded at COP28 in 2023, demonstrates the vital importance of a comprehensive, balanced, and inclusive approach to multilateral climate action. The GST's call to transition away from fossil fuels is an important political achievement. Yet, …
An earth system governance research agenda for carbon removal
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – the creation, enhancement, and upscaling of carbon sinks – has become a pillar of national and corporate commitments towards Net Zero emissions, as well as pathways towards realizing the Paris Agreement's ambitious temperature targets. In this perspective, we explore CDR as an emerging issue of Earth System Governance (ESG). We draw on the results of a workshop at the 2022 Earth System Governance conference that map…
The necessity of justice for a fair, legitimate, and effective treaty on plastic pollution
Surging Biojustice Environmentalism from Below
Global environmental politics is at a critical juncture as the Earth System emergency deepens. The core environmental policies and actions of governments, intergovernmental organizations, corporations, and, to a lesser extent, mainstream nongovernmental organizations are visibly failing to deescalate this emergency. In response to these failures, we argue, dispossessed individuals, Indigenous peoples, grassroots activists, and civil society campa…
Governing plastics
Rising global opposition to face surveillance
This chapter analyzes the rising worldwide opposition to the use of face surveillance technology by police, intelligence agencies, schools, and businesses. This resistance, the chapter notes, is much stronger in North America and Europe than in developing countries. To add evidence of this uneven influence, the chapter documents the growing influence of civil society opposition to facial recognition technology (FRT) in Europe, including within co…
Health concerns of plastics
The idea that plastics can be harmful has been gaining strength since the 1990s. Resulting anti-plastic norms have been diffusing unevenly around the world, with different meanings, fragmented uptake, and variable policy influence. Explanations for why and where anti-plastic norms have gained traction have highlighted the power of industry, the responses of governments, the characteristics of waste management, and the role of advocacy. Researcher…
The influence of home country institutions on the adoption of corporate social responsibility policies by transnational mining corporations
China and the global politics of nature-based solutions
China’s rising influence on climate governance
Facial recognition technology for policing and surveillance in the Global South
The use of facial recognition technology (FRT) for policing and surveillance is spreading across Asia, Africa and Latin America. Advocates are saying this technology can solve crimes, locate missing people and prevent terrorist attacks. Yet, as this article argues, deploying FRT for policing and surveillance poses a grave threat to civil society, especially systems to identify or track people without any criminal history. In every political syste…
Identified, Tracked, and Profiled
The Politics of Transnational Advocacy Against Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian Extractive Projects in the Global South
Activists in the global South have been navigating two powerful trends since the mid-1990s: intensifying state repression and rising investment in extractive projects from the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS). In this context, this article explores the underlying forces determining the formation, endurance, and power of BRICS–South transnational advocacy networks (TANs) opposed to BRICS-based corporate …
Corporate Governance and the Environmental Politics of Shipping
A handful of companies dominate the world’s shipping industry. These firms have gained political leverage over the global governance of container shipping in particular. Intriguingly, in recent years the Danish conglomerate Maersk—the world’s biggest container and shipping vessel company since the mid-1990s—has been using its influence to push for higher environmental standards for the industry as a whole. To some extent these initiatives are hel…
The Political Ecology of Tropical Forests in Southeast Asia
Why equity is fundamental in climate change policy research
Forests, food, and fuel in the tropics
The global political economy of biofuels emerging since 2007 appears set to intensify inequalities among the countries and rural peoples of the global South. Looking through a global political economy lens, this paper analyses the consequences of proliferating biofuel alliances among multinational corporations, governments, and domestic producers. Since many major biofuel feedstocks - such as sugar, oil palm, and soy - are already entrenched in i…
Why is the global governance of plastic failing the oceans
Criteria for effective zero-deforestation commitments
Zero-deforestation commitments are a type of voluntary sustainability initiative that companies adopt to signal their intention to reduce or eliminate deforestation associated with commodities that they produce, trade, and/or sell. Because each company defines its own zero-deforestation commitment goals and implementation mechanisms, commitment content varies widely. This creates challenges for the assessment of commitment implementation or effec…
The Rise of Transnational Governance as a Field of Study
Journal Article The Rise of Transnational Governance as a Field of Study Get access Charles Roger, Charles Roger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Peter Dauvergne Peter Dauvergne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2016, Pages 415–437, https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viw001 Published: 31 March 2016
The Rise of Brazil as a Global Development Power
Brazil's influence is rising quickly in international affairs. Unlike those of China and India, its foreign policy relies heavily on non-military power—a characteristic of Brazil since at least the early 20th century. A mainstay of this policy has been the pursuit of ‘development’ for Brazil and the global South, with domestic discourse on the need to ‘develop’ buttressing this approach. Foreign policy under President Lula (2003–10) did this expl…
China’s rising influence on climate governance
Is artificial intelligence greening global supply chains? Exposing the political economy of environmental costs
Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to greatly enhance the productivity and efficiency of global supply chains over the next decade. Transnational corporations are hailing these gains as a ‘game changer’ for advancing environmental sustainability. Yet, looking through a political economy lens, it is clear that AI is not advancing sustainability nearly as much as industry leaders are claiming. As this article argues, the metrics and rhetoric of co…
Governing Global Supply Chain Sustainability through the Ethical Audit Regime
Over the past two decades multinational corporations have been expanding ‘ethical’ audit programs with the stated aim of reducing the risk of sourcing from suppliers with poor practices. A wave of government regulation—such as the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act (2012) and the UK Modern Slavery Act (2015)—has enhanced the legitimacy of auditing as a tool to govern labor and environmental standards in global supply chains, backed by a…
The Changing North–South and South–South Political Economy of Biofuels
Since the 2007 food crisis, controversy has engulfed biofuels. Leading up to the crisis, world-wide interest in these fuels—which include biomass, biogas, bioethanol, and biodiesel—had been surging as states increasingly saw these as a way to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets and promote sustainable economic development. Now some consumers, notably in Europe, are scaling back demand as they worry that biofuels are responsible for increased fo…
Researching Global Environmental Politics in the 21st Century
This forum article highlights three major research trends we have observed in the journal Global Environmental Politics since 2000. First, research has increasingly focused on specific and formal mechanisms of global environmental governance, contributing to more elaborate and refined methodologies that span more scales and levels of analysis. Second, research increasingly has concentrated on the rise of market-based governance mechanisms and the…
The political economy of Indonesia's 1997 forest fires
The Politics of Deforestation in Indonesia
T ROPICAL FORESTS ARE DISAPPEARING IN THE THIRD WORLD at a rate of almost 17 million hectares per year.' In the Ivory Coast, forest cover has decreased by 75 percent since 1960, in Ghana, 80 percent. Asia has lost an estimated 40 percent of its forests. In Southeast Asia, the Philippines has been the most devastated, declining from 15 million hectares of tropical hardwood trees in 1970 to only 1 million in 1987. Indonesia, with 10 percent of the …
The Global Politics of the Business of “Sustainable” Palm Oil
The palm oil industry is increasingly certifying its activities as “sustainable,” “responsible,” and “conflict-free.” This trend does not represent a breakthrough toward better governance, this article argues, but primarily reflects a business strategy to channel criticism toward “unsustainable” palm oil, while promoting the value for protecting rain forests of corporate social responsibility, international trade, industrial production, and indus…
The politics of repressing environmentalists as agents of foreign influence
Theoretically, this article reveals the long-term risk for local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) of participating in transnational advocacy networks (TANs), accepting money from foreign sources and throwing ‘boomerangs’ internationally—a strategy used by local NGOs to seek international allies to pressure repressive and unresponsive states at home. Focusing primarily on the suppression of environmental NGOs that oppose natural-resource extr…
The power of environmental norms
Emerging environmental norms gain strength and diffuse more quickly when scientific evidence of harm is consolidating, when activism is intensifying, and when political and corporate resistance is relatively weak. The anti-microbead norm – that plastic microbeads should be removed from personal care products – has been gaining global influence since 2012; witness the upsurge in anti-microbead activism, public concern, voluntary corporate phasedow…
The Problem of Consumption
One of the biggest challenges for global environmental governance is “the problem of consumption.” The task involves far more than simply influencing what consumers choose, use, and discard. It requires a concerted effort to address the systemic drivers—including advertising, economic growth, technology, income inequality, corporations, population growth, and globalization—that shape the quantities, costs, and distribution of consumer goods. Curr…
The Power of Big Box Retail in Global Environmental Governance
This article focuses on analysing the consequences for global governance of the growing power of the world’s biggest retailers, illustrating with the case of global forest governance. It argues that the rising power of big retail within global commodity chains is creating both significant challenges — and some opportunities — for global environmental governance. The analysis suggests a need for IR to focus more on the shifting political power of …
The globalization of artificial intelligence
The globalization of artificial intelligence is supercharging the technological base of the world order. What are the consequences of the rising power of AI for environmentalism? Machine learning and intelligent robotics can advance environmental knowledge and conservation. Yet other AI technologies – from facial recognition to automated online surveillance – can enhance the power of states and corporations to suppress activism. The consequences …
The slow violence of corporate social responsibility
Drawing on fieldwork in three Andean regions of Peru, this article analyses the capacity of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to reduce mining-related violence in rural communities in developing countries. Within Peru, to some extent CSR has stabilised short-term relationships between mining corporations and nearby communities, although tensions remain high in others. While effects are varied and locally-contingent, the findings support a the…
Big retail and sustainable coffee
Over the past five years, global retail chains such as Walmart, McDonald’s and Starbucks have accelerated their efforts to source and sell coffee ‘sustainably’. Whereas ethical and environmental concerns were the intended drivers of fair trade and organic coffee uptake among the big coffee roasters, now multinational retailers are strategically embracing ‘sustainable coffee’ to build brand reputation and consumer trust as well as enhance quality …
Mindbombs of right and wrong
Activists use emotional language and images – what Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter coined ‘mindbombs’ – to convince people that some actions are wrong, morally and environmentally. For instance, for over 50 years anti-sealing activists have employed mindbombs to transform seal pups into babies and seal hunters into barbarians. Although ‘image politics’ contributed to the decline of the Canadian sealing industry in the 1980s, its effectiveness ha…
The Global South in Environmental Negotiations
During international environmental negotiations developing countries have commonly employed a unified strategy through the G-77 and China (G-77/China). Compared with other negotiations, such as those on trade and security, this strategy has been relatively successful in securing financial and technical benefits. Unity among developing states is not, however, a characteristic of all environmental negotiations. This paper analyses the case of Reduc…
Dying of Consumption
Private consumption expenditures are now more than 4 times higher than in 1960. The globalization of ever-more growth and consumption has come, however, at a price: global chains of cause-and-effect that obscure social, environmental and ethical responsibility. The result in practice is a global order that accepts the deaths of millions of young people in dangerous and unhealthy environments as tragic, but largely unavoidable, accidents of econom…
Surging Biojustice Environmentalism from Below
Global environmental politics is at a critical juncture as the Earth System emergency deepens. The core environmental policies and actions of governments, intergovernmental organizations, corporations, and, to a lesser extent, mainstream nongovernmental organizations are visibly failing to deescalate this emergency. In response to these failures, we argue, dispossessed individuals, Indigenous peoples, grassroots activists, and civil society campa…
Nuclear Power Development in Japan
Research Article| June 01 1993 Nuclear Power Development in Japan: "Outside Forces" and the Politics of Reciprocal Consent Peter Dauvergne Peter Dauvergne Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1993) 33 (6): 576–591. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645007 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Per…
The Politics of Deforestation in Indonesia
T ROPICAL FORESTS ARE DISAPPEARING IN THE THIRD WORLD at a rate of almost 17 million hectares per year.' In the Ivory Coast, forest cover has decreased by 75 percent since 1960, in Ghana, 80 percent. Asia has lost an estimated 40 percent of its forests. In Southeast Asia, the Philippines has been the most devastated, declining from 15 million hectares of tropical hardwood trees in 1970 to only 1 million in 1987. Indonesia, with 10 percent of the …
The Japanese Prime Minister and Public Policy
Shadows in the Forest
This book is the first to analyze the environmental impact of Japanese trade, corporations, and aid on timber management in the context of Southeast Asian political economies. It is also one of the first comprehensive studies of why Southeast Asian states are unable to enforce forest policies and regulations. 1998 Winner of the International Studies Association's Harold and Margaret Sprout Award Peter Dauvergne developed the concept of a "shadow …
The political economy of Indonesia's 1997 forest fires
Shadows in the Forest
Globalisation and deforestation in the Asia-Pacific
Over the last 30 years, the number of global environmental agreements and non‐governmental organisations has proliferated, and international organisations, states, societies, corporations, and communities have, to differing degrees, been influenced by environmental values. Yet the global spread of environmental ideas has been uneven, contributing to important changes in some areas and minimal changes in others. This article examines the impact of…
Sustainable Forest Management in the Context of Multi-Level and Multi-Actor Policy Processes
Corporate Power in the Forests of the Solomon Islands
This paper assesses the environmental impact of multinational companies on commercial timber management in the Solomon Islands since 1990. As more and more companies, especially from Malaysia, have spread throughout the country, the capacity of the state and societal groups to develop and enforce effective rules have become increasingly strained. Corporate bribes and pressure on state and community leaders further contribute to inappropriate poli…
Shadows in the Forest
This dissertation creates two new theoretical tools to analyze connections between politics and environmental change. The first section develops the concept of Northern ‘shadow ecologies’ to understand the environmental impact of a Northern state on Southern resource management. A Northern shadow ecology is the aggregate environmental impact of government aid and loans; corporate investment and technology transfers; and trade, including purchasin…
The Environmental Implications of Asia's 1997 Financial Crisis
This article assesses the environmental implications of the Asian financial crisis in South?East Asia and Melanesia, covering the period from mid?1997 until early 1999. It examines the implications for agricultural development, natural resource management, industrial pollution, corporate activities, and state environment budgets and implementation. It shows that the crisis has contributed to extensive environmental changes. There are, however, co…
Globalization and Environmental Change
The environmental changes set in motion by the [1997 financial] crisis will continue for the near future. Without strong domestic and international measures to support environmental protection and conservation in the Asia-Pacific, a second crisis may well strike soon, this time ignited by an environmental collapse
Shadows in the Forest
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Weak and Strong States in Asia-Pacific Societies
MigdalIn weakness and strength: State, societies and order in Papua New GuineaSinclair DinnenState, society and governance: a Philippines-Papua New Guinea comparisonR.J. MayMigdal in MelanesiaPeter LarmourIndonesia's 'strong' stateHarold CrouchConfucius in Singapore: Culture, politics and the PAP stateStephanie LawsonWeak states and the environment in Indonesia and the Solomon IslandsPeter DauvergneLand regimes and state strengths and weaknesses …
Marian A.L. Miller 1950–2003
November 01 2004 Marian A.L. Miller 1950–2003 Jennifer Clapp, Jennifer Clapp Trent University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Peter Dauvergne Peter Dauvergne University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Jennifer Clapp Trent University Peter Dauvergne University of British Columbia Online Issn: 1536-0091 Print Issn: 1526-3800 © 20…
Paths to a Green World
This comprehensive and accessible text fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways key economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental management, particularly in the developing world. Moving beyond the usual academic emphasis on international agreements and institutions, it strives to integrate debates within the real worl…
Cancer and Global Environmental Politics
More than six million people die of cancer every year. Over the next two decades, the World Health Organization predicts global cancer rates will rise to 10 million deaths annually. What is the impact of the global political and economic processes of environmental change on cancer rates? Why, given the strong intuitive reasons to worry about the carcinogenic effects of global environmental change, is there so little research on this topic? What i…
Dying of Consumption
Private consumption expenditures are now more than 4 times higher than in 1960. The globalization of ever-more growth and consumption has come, however, at a price: global chains of cause-and-effect that obscure social, environmental and ethical responsibility. The result in practice is a global order that accepts the deaths of millions of young people in dangerous and unhealthy environments as tragic, but largely unavoidable, accidents of econom…
Paths to a Green World
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The Changing North–South and South–South Political Economy of Biofuels
Since the 2007 food crisis, controversy has engulfed biofuels. Leading up to the crisis, world-wide interest in these fuels—which include biomass, biogas, bioethanol, and biodiesel—had been surging as states increasingly saw these as a way to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets and promote sustainable economic development. Now some consumers, notably in Europe, are scaling back demand as they worry that biofuels are responsible for increased fo…
The Problem of Consumption
One of the biggest challenges for global environmental governance is “the problem of consumption.” The task involves far more than simply influencing what consumers choose, use, and discard. It requires a concerted effort to address the systemic drivers—including advertising, economic growth, technology, income inequality, corporations, population growth, and globalization—that shape the quantities, costs, and distribution of consumer goods. Curr…
The Power of Big Box Retail in Global Environmental Governance
This article focuses on analysing the consequences for global governance of the growing power of the world’s biggest retailers, illustrating with the case of global forest governance. It argues that the rising power of big retail within global commodity chains is creating both significant challenges — and some opportunities — for global environmental governance. The analysis suggests a need for IR to focus more on the shifting political power of …
Forests, food, and fuel in the tropics
The global political economy of biofuels emerging since 2007 appears set to intensify inequalities among the countries and rural peoples of the global South. Looking through a global political economy lens, this paper analyses the consequences of proliferating biofuel alliances among multinational corporations, governments, and domestic producers. Since many major biofuel feedstocks - such as sugar, oil palm, and soy - are already entrenched in i…
Mindbombs of right and wrong
Activists use emotional language and images – what Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter coined ‘mindbombs’ – to convince people that some actions are wrong, morally and environmentally. For instance, for over 50 years anti-sealing activists have employed mindbombs to transform seal pups into babies and seal hunters into barbarians. Although ‘image politics’ contributed to the decline of the Canadian sealing industry in the 1980s, its effectiveness ha…
Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, Second Edition
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