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Books

• Eco-business: A Big Brand Takeover of Sustainability? (co-authored with Jane Lister) (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, forthcoming in 2012).

• (editor) Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, second edition (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012).

• (editor) Environmental Politics (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming).

• Timber (co-authored with Jane Lister) (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2011).

• Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment, second edition (co-authored with Jennifer Clapp) (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press,  2011).

• The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment (MIT Press, 2008; released in paperback in 2010). (Recipient of the 2009 Gerald L. Young Book Award in Human Ecology, presented by the Society for Human Ecology for the best book authored in 2008 exemplifying the highest standard of scholarly work in the field of human ecology.)

• Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism (Scarecrow Press, 2009). Released in Paperback in September 2009 as The A to Z of Environmentalism.

• Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment (co-authored with Jennifer Clapp) (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005), (pp. xix + 305). (Second Printing in 2006.) (Japanese Translation in 2008.)

• (editor) Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005) (pp. xvii + pp. 538). (Paperback released in 2006.)

• Loggers and Degradation in the Asia-Pacific: Corporations and Environmental Management (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

• (editor), Weak and Strong States in Asia-Pacific Societies (Allen and Unwin, 1998).

• Shadows in the Forest: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1997). (Recipient of the International Studies Association's 1998 Sprout Award for the best book in international environmental affairs.) 

Monographs

• The Environment in Times of Crisis: Asia and Donors after the 1997 Financial Crisis (Canberra: Australian Agency for International Development of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (AusAID), March 1999).

• Major Asian Tropical Timber Traders and Overseas Investors: Current Trends (Ottawa: Government of Canada, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 1995).

Articles (Professor Dauvergne is the author of over 50 articles. Below is a sample.)

• (with Kate J. Neville), "Biofuels and the Politics of Mapmaking," Political Geography (2012), doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2012.03.006.

• (with Déborah Barros Leal Farias), "The Rise of Brazil as a Global Development Power," Third World Quarterly 33 (5) (2012): 903-917.

• (with Jane Lister), "Big Brand Sustainability: Governance Prospects and Environmental Limits," Global Environmental Change 22 (1) (February)(2012): 36-45, doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.10.007.

• "Research Trends in Global Environmental Politics," in Peter Dauvergne, ed., Handbook of Global Environmental Politics,second edition (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012): ch. 1.

• (with Kate J. Neville), "Mindbombs of Right and Wrong: Cycles of Contention in the Activist Campaign to Stop Canada's Seal Hunt," Environmental Politics 20 (2) (2011): 192-209.

• (with Jane Lister), "The Power of Big Box Retail in Global Environmental Governance: Bringing Commodity Chains Back into IR," Millennium: Journal of International Relations 39 (1) (2010): 145-160.

• (with Kate J. Neville), "Forest, Food, and Fuel in the Tropics: The Uneven Social and Ecological Consequences of the Emerging Political Economy of Biofuels," The Journal of Peasant Studies 37 (4) (2010): 631-660.

• (with Jane Lister), "The Prospects and Limits of Eco-Consumerism: Shopping Our Way to Less Deforestation?" Organization & Environment 23 (2) (June 2010): 132-154.

• "The Problem of Consumption," Global Environmental Politics 10 (2) (2010): 1-10.

• "Globalization and the Environment," in John Ravenhill, ed., Global Political Economy, 3rd edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011): 450-480 (revised and updated from the 2008 chapter, below).

• (with Kate J. Neville), "The Changing North-South and South-South Political Economy of Biofuels," Third World Quarterly 30 (6) (2009): 1087-1102.

• "History of Environmentalism," the Introduction for Peter Dauvergne, Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism (Scarecrow Press, 2009): xli-lviii.

• "Conservation's Uphill Battle," The Chronicle of Higher Education 55 (no. 14, 28 November 2008): B11-B13.

• "Globalization and the Environment," in John Ravenhill, ed., Global Political Economy, 2nd edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008): 448-477 (revised and updated from the 2005 chapter, below). (3rd edition of the chapter is now in Press.)

• "Cancer and Global Environmental Politics: Proposing a New Research Agenda," a Special Issue of Global Environmental Politics, The Global South and the Environment: Essays in Memory of Marian A.L. Miller, guest edited by Jennifer Clapp, 5 (3) (August 2005): 6-13.

• "Dying of Consumption: Accidents or Sacrifices of Global Morality,"a Special Issue of Global Environmental Politics, The Global South and the Environment: Essays in Memory of Marian A.L. Miller, guest edited by Jennifer Clapp, 5 (3) (August 2005): 35-47.

• "Global Environmental Politics: Handbook Topics and Themes," in Peter Dauvergne, ed., Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005): ch. 1.

• "Research in Global Environmental Politics: History and Trends," in Peter Dauvergne, ed., Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005): ch. 2.

• "The Environmental Challenge to Loggers in the Asia-Pacific: Corporate Practices in Informal Regimes of Governance," in David L. Levy and Peter J. Newell, eds., The Business of Global Environmental Governance (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005): ch. 7, 169-196. Reprinted in Mitchell, Ronald B., ed. International Environmental Politics Vol. 1 (London: Sage 2008), 335-355.

• "Globalization and the Environment," in John Ravenhill, ed., Global Political Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005): 366-389.

• “A Model of Sustainable International Trade in Tropical Timber,” International Environmental Affairs 9, no. 1 (winter 1997): 3-21. Reprinted in Peter M. Haas, ed., Environment in the New Global Economy (London: Edward Elgar: 2003). Reprinted in David L. Feldman, ed., Geopolitics of Natural Resources (London: Edward Elgar, 2011).

• “Communities in Turmoil: Comparing State Responses to Environmental Insecurity in Southeast Asian Forests,” in David B. Dewitt and Carolina G. Hernandez, eds., Development and Security in Southeast Asia, volume 1: The Environment (Ashgate, 2002).

• (and Jennifer Clapp), “Environment, Development, and Security in Southeast Asia: Exploring the Linkages,” in Dewitt and Hernandez, eds. Development and Security in Southeast Asia, volume 1: The Environment (Ashgate, 2002).

• “Lost in the Forests of Uncertainty.” FORUM For Applied Research and Public Policy (Summer 2002): 79-84.

• “The Rise of an Environmental Superpower? Evaluating Japanese Environmental Aid to Southeast Asia,” in Javed Maswood, ed., Japan and East Asian Regionalism (London and New York: Routledge, 2001): 51-67.

• "Globalisation and Environmental Change: Asia’s 1997 Financial Crisis,” Current History, November 2000, 389-395.

• "The Case for Chess as a Tool to Develop Our Children's Minds," July 2000. Translated into Portuguese, for the book A Importância do Xadrez (The Chess Importance), published by ABCX in 2007. Reprinted in Education Horizons 11 (6) (2011), 28-30.

• "Asia’s Environment after the 1997 Financial Meltdown: A Need of a Regional Response,” Asian Perspective, 23 (1999), 53-77.

• "The Environmental Implications of Asia’s 1997 Financial Crisis,” IDS Bulletin 30 (1999), 31-42.

• "Corporate Power in the Forests of the Solomon Islands,” Pacific Affairs, 71 (Winter 98-99), 524-546.

• "Burning Down Indonesia: The Politics of Forest Fires,” The Asia-Pacific Magazine, No. 11 (1998), 34-37.

• "Reforming Multinational Loggers in Solomon Islands,” Pacific Economic Bulletin, 13 (1998), 106-115.

• "Globalisation and Deforestation in the Asia-Pacific,” Environmental Politics, 7 (1998), 113-134.

• "Weak and Strong States in the Societies of the Asia Pacific,” Pacific Economic Bulletin, 13 (1998), 124-131.

• "The Political Economy of Indonesia’s 1997 Forest Fires," Australian Journal of International Affairs, 52 (1998), 13-17.

• "States and the Environment in the Solomon Islands and Indonesia,” in Peter Dauvergne, ed., Weak and Strong States in Asia-Pacific Societies (Allen and Unwin, 1998): 135-157.

• “Japanese Trade and Deforestation in Southeast Asia,” in De Koninck, Rodolphe and Christine Veilleux, eds., Southeast Asia and Globalization: New Domains of Analysis/ L’Asie du Sud-Est face à la mondialisation: les nouveaux champs d’anlayse (Québec: GÉRAC, Université Laval, 1997): 133-156.

• "The Politics of Deforestation in Indonesia," Pacific Affairs, 66 (Winter, 1993-1994), 497-518.

• "Nuclear Power Development in Japan: 'Outside Forces' and the Politics of Reciprocal Consent," Asian Survey, 33 (Jun., 1993), 576-591. 

Op-eds (in 2010)

(with Laura Lee and Miro Cernetig). "Developing Nations' Pandemic: The Car," Vancouver Sun, 9 January 2010, C04.

Book Reviews (in 2009-10)

1. Book Review Perspectives: The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment, by Peter Dauvergne.

a. Foye Hatton, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

b. Alina M. Szmant, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA

c. Rejoinder by the Author: Peter Dauvergne, University of British Columbia, Canada

In Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy 5 (no. 2, Fall 2009): available at http://ejournal.nbii.org/archives/vol5iss2/book.dauvergne.html

Grants (Below is a sample.)

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. "Global Environmental Politics of Eco-Consumerism," 2010-13.

• President's Office, UBC. "The Politics of Corporate Environmentalism. Ongoing. 

• Canada Research Chair. "Global Environmental Politics." Ongoing.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. "Global Environmental Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility." Completed in 2009.

• Weyerhaeuser US Environmental and Resource Policy Research Program. "Co-Regulating Corporate Social Responsiblity" (investigator, Jane Lister). Completed in 2008.

• Hampton Fund, UBC. "Socio-Economic and Environmental Determinants of Well-Being in Flood-Prone Mozambique." Completed.

• MIT Press. "Editorial Office of the Journal of Global Environmental Politics." Completed.

• Australian Research Council. "Corporations and the Global and Local Politics of Tropical Forests as Carbon Sinks." Completed.

• University of Sydney. "Editorial Office of the Journal of Global Environmental Politics." Completed.

• University of Sydney. "Corporate Loggers in the Asia-Pacific." Completed.

• Canadian International Development Agency. "Environment, Development, and Security." Completed.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Medical Research Council of Canada. "Eco-Research Doctoral Fellowship." Completed.

• Canada-ASEAN Centre. "Research in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia." Completed.

• University of British Columbia. "Alcan Fellowship in Japanese Studies." Completed.

Recent graduate students have completed theses in international relations on global environmental politics, regional politics of the Asia-Pacific, and sustainable development in the Third World. (Professor Dauvergne has supervised to completion over 30 postdoctoral, PhD and MA students.)

Current Postdoctoral Supervisions

• Jane Lister (Research Interest: Timber Consumption,  Certification, and Corporate Social Responsibility)
• Genevieve LeBaron (Research Interest: Critical Political Economy, Labor, and Social Movements)

Current PhD Supervisions

• Kathryn Neville (Research Interest: Water, Biofuels, and Environmental Security)
• Déborah Barros Leal Farias (Research Interest: Brazil and Global Politics of Biofuels)
• Jennifer Allan (Research Interest: Global Forest Governance)
• Sara Elder (Research Interest: Resource Management, Consumption, and Global Supply Chains)
• Charles Roger (Research Interest: Transnational Climate Governance)
• Justin Alger (Research Interest: Global Politics of Biodiversity)
• Jonathan Gamu (Research Interest: Environmental Politics of Insecurity in South America)

Current PhD Committees

• Suzi Malan (Forestry: Conservation Parks in Africa)
• Priya Bala-Miller (Political Science: Corporate Social Responsibility)
• Frédéric Le Manach (Fisheries: Inshore Fishing and Global Consumption)

Current MA Supervisions

• Rumana Monzur (Political Science: Climate Change in Bangladesh)

Recent PhD Supervisions

• David Seekings (PhD 2011). Caring About Aid: An Ethics of Care Approachto Global Health Aid.
• Jane Lister (PhD 2009). Co-Regulating Corporate Social Responsibility: Government Response to Forest Certification in Canada, the United States and Sweden.

Recent PhD Committees

• Alice Cohen (PhD 2011, Resource Management and Environmental Studies). From Water to Watershed: An Analysis of Rescaled Governance in Canada.
• Shane Barter (PhD 2011, Political Science). Unarmed Forces: Civilian Strategy and Separatist Conflict in Southeast Asia.
• Francois de Soete (PhD 2010, Political Science). It's Just An Animal? A Theoretical Framework for Understanding the Emergence of Animal Categories in the United States.
• Paula Barrios (PhD 2008, Law). Liberal Environmentalism and the International Law of Hazardous Chemicals.
• Meidad Kissinger (PhD 2008, Planning). Interregional Ecology -- Resource Flows and Sustainability in a Globalizing World.

Recent MA Supervisions

• Kiosh Rama Iselin (MA 2012). Democracy and Planning for the Long-Term: The Case for Better Representing the Current Generation
• Colin Trehearne (MA 2007). Japanese Voluntary Environmental Agreements: Political-Economic Stability as Contributor to Effectiveness
• Nicolas Sternsdorff (MA 2007). The Politics of Eating Sustainably: Explaining Altruism in the Ocean Wise Program
• Lindsay Johnson (MA 2006). Advocates, Experts or Collaborative Epistemic Communities? Defining the Scientific Role of NGOs in International Environmental Negotiations
• Tracey Janes (MA 2006). Teaching Private Governance: A Critical Analysis of the UN Global Compact
• Katherine Hall (MA 2006). Environmental Justice in the United States: Reconstructing "Race" and "Nature"
• Talusier Arbour LaSalle (MA 2006). The Canary in the Coal Mine: Arctic Indigenous Peoples and the POPs Regime
• Hamish van der Ven (MA 2005). Burning Money to Save the Environment: An Interest-Based Analysis of Canada's Implementation Plan for the Kyoto Protocol
• Ashley N. Hamilton (MA 2005). Governing Oil Inc.: Socially Responsible Investment and the New Governance Gap
• Samantha Kohn (MA 2004). The Mekong River's Paper Dragon: A Political Analysis of the Efficacy of the Mekong River Commission