Philippe Le Billon

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Philippe Le Billon

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#1072

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#1631

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Geography

#218

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#360

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Philippe Le Billon's Degrees

PhD Geography Paris Centre Universités
Masters Geography Paris Centre Universités
Bachelors Geography Paris Centre Universités

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According to Wikipedia, Philippe Le Billon is a researcher known for his work in political ecology and on the political economy of war. A Fulbright Research Chair at UC Berkeley and Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Le Billon is a professor at the University of British Columbia with the Department of Geography and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. He earned an MBA at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris and a doctorate at the University of Oxford. Prior to joining UBC he collaborated with the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Overseas Development Institute .

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Philippe Le Billon's Published Works

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The political ecology of war: natural resources and armed conflicts (2001) (1350)
Angola's political economy of war: The role of oil and diamonds, 1975–2000 (2001) (287)
Diamond Wars? Conflict Diamonds and Geographies of Resource Wars (2008) (234)
The Political Ecology of Transition in Cambodia 1989–1999: War, Peace and Forest Exploitation (2000) (229)
Buying peace or fuelling war: the role of corruption in armed conflicts (2003) (210)
Why do some communities resist mining projects while others do not (2017) (194)
The Geopolitical economy of ‘resource wars’ (2004) (186)
Fuelling War: Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts (2006) (185)
Towards a sustainable and equitable blue economy (2019) (176)
Extractive industries and poverty: A review of recent findings and linkage mechanisms (2015) (157)
Conflict in Africa : The Cost of Peaceful Behaviour (2002) (141)
Peace in the wake of disaster? Secessionist conflicts and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami (2007) (138)
Logging in Muddy Waters: The Politics of Forest Exploitation in Cambodia (2002) (101)
Fatal Transactions: Conflict Diamonds and the (Anti)Terrorist Consumer (2006) (94)
Violence and space: An introduction to the geographies of violence (2016) (85)
Wars of Plunder: Conflicts, Profits and the Politics of Resources (2011) (83)
Has the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative been a success? Identifying and evaluating EITI goals (2017) (81)
Corruption, Reconstruction and Oil Governance in Iraq (2005) (80)
Corrupting Peace? Peacebuilding and Post-conflict Corruption (2008) (79)
Effects of Fair Trade Certification on Social Capital: The Case of Rwandan Coffee Producers (2012) (79)
Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects (2020) (79)
Euros vs. Yuan: Comparing European and Chinese Fishing Access in West Africa (2015) (75)
Landing capital and assembling ‘investable land’ in the extractive and agricultural sectors (2017) (72)
Is Fairtrade certification greening agricultural practices? An analysis of Fairtrade environmental standards in Rwanda (2013) (68)
From Free Oil to 'Freedom Oil': Terrorism, War and US Geopolitics in the Persian Gulf (2004) (67)
Staking claims and shaking hands: Impact and benefit agreements as a technology of government in the mining sector (2015) (63)
A policy nexus approach to forests and the SDGs: tradeoffs and synergies (2018) (62)
Finance in conflict and reconstruction (2001) (61)
Landscapes of political memories: War legacies and land negotiations in Laos (2012) (61)
The fisheries of Africa: Exploitation, policy, and maritime security trends (2019) (58)
Phasing Out Mercury? Ecological Economics and Indonesia's Small-Scale Gold Mining Sector (2018) (58)
Just cuts for fossil fuels? Supply-side carbon constraints and energy transition (2020) (57)
Conflict ecologies: Connecting political ecology and peace and conflict studies (2018) (57)
Deadly Environmental Governance: Authoritarianism, Eco-populism, and the Repression of Environmental and Land Defenders (2019) (57)
The Geopolitics of Resource Wars (2005) (56)
Ending ‘Resource Wars’: Revenue Sharing, Economic Sanction or Military Intervention? (2007) (55)
Plastics at sea: Treaty design for a global solution to marine plastic pollution (2019) (54)
Geographies of War: Perspectives on ‘Resource Wars’ (2007) (53)
Extractive sectors and illicit financial flows: What role for revenue governance initiatives? (2011) (51)
Climate change and fossil fuel production cuts: assessing global supply-side constraints and policy implications (2020) (50)
Building Peace with Conflict Diamonds? Merging Security and Development in Sierra Leone (2009) (50)
Corruption, Natural Resources and Development: From Resource Curse to Political Ecology (2017) (48)
Oil Prices, Scarcity, and Geographies of War (2009) (47)
Global patterns of fisheries conflict: Forty years of data (2019) (44)
The ‘Global Food Crisis’ and the Geopolitics of Food Security (2014) (40)
BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE: VIOLENCE AND ACCOMMODATION IN THE CAMBODIAN LOGGING SECTOR (2007) (35)
Gold mining in Colombia, post-war crime and the peace agreement with the FARC (2018) (32)
Environmental and land defenders: Global patterns and determinants of repression (2020) (32)
WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies. (2021) (29)
Resources and armed conflicts (2005) (28)
Foreign Aid, Resource Rents, and State Fragility in Mozambique and Angola: (2014) (27)
Diamond Wars? Conflict Diamonds and Geographies of Resource Wars (2008) (27)
Securing Alberta’s Tar Sands: Resistance and Criminalization on a New Energy Frontier (2012) (25)
Geo-Logics of Power: Disaster Capitalism, Himalayan Materialities, and the Geopolitical Economy of Reconstruction in Post-Earthquake Nepal (2018) (24)
A Land Cursed by its Wealth? : Angola's War Economy 1975-99 (1999) (23)
Natural resources and corruption in post-war transitions: matters of trust (2014) (23)
Territorial peace and gold mining in Colombia: local peacebuilding, bottom-up development and the defence of territories (2020) (22)
Reconstructing and Reforming the Financial System in Conflict and ‘Post-Conflict’ Economies (2005) (21)
On the economic motivation for conflict in Africa (2000) (21)
Conservation and the right to fish: International conservation NGOs and the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (2017) (21)
Financial Reconstruction in Conflict and 'Post-Conflict' Economies (2001) (20)
Resources for Peace? Managing Revenues from Extractive Industries in Post-Conflict Environments (2008) (20)
Corruption, Natural Resources and Development (2017) (19)
Foreign aid, resource rents and institution-building in Mozambique and Angola (2013) (19)
Responding to the commodity bust: Downturns, policies and poverty in extractive sector dependent countries (2016) (19)
Impacts of anthropogenic and natural “extreme events” on global fisheries (2018) (19)
THE RISE IN CONFLICT ASSOCIATED WITH MINING OPERATIONS : WHAT LIES BENEATH ? EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (2017) (19)
Power is consuming the forest : the political ecology of conflict and reconstruction in Cambodia (1999) (18)
Fossil fuels, climate change, and the COVID-19 crisis: pathways for a just and green post-pandemic recovery (2021) (18)
Cleaning mineral supply chains? Political economies of exploitation and hidden costs of technical fixes (2021) (18)
Narco‐Fish: Global fisheries and drug trafficking (2020) (18)
China's weapons trade: from ships of shame to the ethics of global resistance (2009) (18)
The Geopolitical economy of ‘resource wars’ (2004) (17)
African migrants in China: space, race and embodied encounters in Guangzhou, China (2018) (17)
Struggles for land: comparing resistance movements against agro-industrial and mining investment projects (2020) (17)
Oil, fisheries and coastal communities: A review of impacts on the environment, livelihoods, space and governance (2021) (17)
Oil and Armed Conflicts in Africa (2010) (16)
Aid in the midst of plenty: oil wealth, misery and advocacy in Angola. (2005) (16)
Natural Resource Types and Conflict Termination Initiatives (2009) (15)
Conflict minerals and battery materials supply chains: A mapping review of responsible sourcing initiatives (2021) (15)
Climate change impact on Canada's Pacific marine ecosystem: The current state of knowledge (2019) (14)
Oil, Secession and the Future of Iraqi Federalism (2015) (13)
Disaster Financialization: Earthquakes, Cashflows and Shifting Household Economies in Nepal (2020) (13)
Fuelling War or Buying Peace: The Role of Corruption in Conflicts (2001) (13)
Natural gas extraction and community development in Tanzania: Documenting the gaps between rhetoric and reality (2019) (13)
Exploring the future of fishery conflict through narrative scenarios (2021) (13)
Aid in the midst of plenty: oil wealth, misery and advocacy in Angola. (2005) (12)
Editorial: Illegal Fishing as a Trans-National Crime (2020) (12)
Foreign Aid, Resource Rents, and State Fragility in Mozambique and Angola (2014) (12)
From free oil to ‘freedom oil’: terrorism, war and US Geopolitics in the Persian Gulf (2004) (12)
(Dis)Connecting Alberta’S Tar Sands And British Columbia’S North Coast (2013) (11)
Lucrative Disaster: Financialization, Accumulation and Postearthquake Reconstruction in Nepal (2020) (11)
The Geography of Resource Wars (2010) (11)
Land reforms and voluntary resettlement: household participation and attrition rates in Malawi (2019) (10)
The resource curse (2005) (10)
Securing Transparency (2006) (10)
Scales, Chains and Commodities: Mapping Out “Resource Wars” (2007) (10)
Corrupting peace? Corruption, peacebuilding and reconstruction (2012) (10)
Crisis conservation and green extraction: biodiversity offsets as spaces of double exception (2021) (9)
Economic and Resource Causes of Conflicts (2009) (9)
Binding pipelines? Oil, armed conflicts, and economic rationales for peace in the two Sudans (2016) (8)
Understanding and responding to the environmental human rights defenders crisis: The case for conservation action (2020) (8)
Feeding (On) Geopolitical Anxieties: Asian Appetites, News Media Framing and the 2007–2008 Food Crisis (2014) (8)
Natural resources and corruption in post-war transitions: matters of trust (2014) (8)
Growing Political: Violence, Community Forestry, and Environmental Defender Subjectivity (2019) (7)
Corrupting Peace? Peacebuilding and Post-conflict Corruption (2008) (7)
Has the EITI been successful? Reviewing evaluations of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (2017) (7)
Thriving on war: The Angolan conflict & private business (2001) (7)
Reconciling violence: Policing the politics of recognition (2021) (7)
Ethical considerations for research on small‐scale fisheries and blue crimes (2021) (6)
Tax havens are the tip of the iceberg (2018) (6)
Sand mining: Stopping the grind of unregulated supply chains (2022) (5)
Peacebuilding and white-collar crime in post-war natural resource sectors (2018) (5)
Peacebuilding and white-collar crime in post-war natural resource sectors (2018) (5)
Power is consuming the forest (1999) (5)
Transparency in Environmental and Resource Governance: Theories of Change for the EITI (2021) (5)
Unrooted responses: Addressing violence against environmental and land defenders (2020) (4)
Corruption, Reconstruction and Oil Governance in Iraq (2005) (4)
Local marine stewardship and ocean defenders (2022) (4)
Digging into “Resource War” Beliefs: (2012) (4)
Chapter Six: Valuable Natural Resources in Conflict-Affected States (2010) (4)
Contract renegotiation and asset recovery in post-conflict settings (2012) (4)
Introduction: Global Food Crisis (2014) (4)
The Green Transition in Context—Cobalt Responsible Sourcing for Battery Manufacturing (2022) (3)
Bankrupting Peace Spoilers:What Role for UN Peacekeepers? (2012) (3)
Geography: Securing places and spaces of securitization (2015) (3)
Land scarcity, resettlement and food security: Assessing the effect of voluntary resettlement on diet quality in Malawi (2019) (3)
Fish crimes in the global oceans (2022) (3)
Resources and armed conflicts (2005) (3)
The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research (2023) (3)
Corporate accountability and diplomatic liability in overseas extractive projects (2021) (3)
Conflicts, commodities and the environmental geopolitics of supply chains (2020) (2)
Resources, wars and violence (2015) (2)
ROLE OF HOST GOVERNMENTS IN ENABLING OR PREVENTING CONFLICT ASSOCIATED WITH MINING Abridged version (2018) (2)
Foreign aid and political settlements: contrasting the Mozambican and Angolan cases (2016) (2)
Adjacency and vessel domestication as enablers of fish crimes (2022) (2)
Oil and the Islamic State: Revisiting “Resource Wars” Arguments in Light of ISIS Operations and State-Making Attempts (2021) (2)
Managing Revenues from Natural Resources and Aid (2012) (2)
Oil and Armed Conflicts in Africa (2010) (2)
Globalization and Natural Resource Conflicts (2007) (2)
Ocean sustainability for all requires deeper behavioural research (2021) (2)
Cambodia: Genocide, Autocracy, and the Overpoliticized State (2000) (2)
A Theory of Change for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. Designing resource governance pathways to improve developmental outcomes (2020) (2)
Atmospheres of violence (2021) (2)
Empowerment or Imposition? (2021) (2)
The resource curse (2005) (2)
Species on the Move: Environmental Change, Displacement and Conservation (2022) (1)
Resources for Peace (2014) (1)
The politics of oil in the Anthropocene (2017) (1)
Expertise, Labour, and Mobility in Nepal's Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Law, Construction, and Finance as Domains of Social Transformation (2021) (1)
Determinants of Fossil Fuel Production Cuts and Implications for an International Supply-Side Agreement (2022) (1)
The Cost of Peaceful Behaviour (2001) (1)
0 Volatile Commodities : A Review of Conflicts and Security Issues Related to Extractive Sectors (2016) (1)
The Contested Politics of Iraq’s Oil Wealth (2018) (1)
Scales, Chains and Commodities: Mapping Out “Resource Wars” (2007) (1)
Coercive Western Energy Security Strategies: 'Resource Wars' as a New Threat to Global Security (2017) (1)
Covering crude bargains: The impacts of investigative media reporting on oil deals (2022) (1)
Climate Extractivism: Avoiding The Pitfalls Of Extraction-Based Decarbonization (2021) (1)
Trade, Aid and Security An Agenda for Peace and Development Chapter 6: Managing Revenues from Natural Resources and Aid (2008) (1)
Crisis conservation and green extraction: biodiversity offsets as spaces of double exception (2021) (0)
Violence (2020) (0)
Resource grabs: Real World Challenges (2013) (0)
Examples of computations of amount of Chinese payments to West African countries in exchange for fishing access. (2015) (0)
Defending territory from the extraction and conservation nexus (2021) (0)
Introduction (2005) (0)
Green transition mineral supply risks: Comparing artisanal and deep-sea cobalt mining in a time of climate crisis (2023) (0)
Artificial intelligence and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative as anti-corruption tools for Canadian extractive companies (2022) (0)
China's resource diplomacy in Africa. Powering development? by Marcus Power, Giles Mohan and May Tan‐Mullins Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 329 pp notes, refs and index ISBN 978‐0‐230‐22912‐9 (2013) (0)
Ocean defenders and human rights (2023) (0)
Digging into “Resource War” Beliefs (2012) (0)
Introduction (0)
Land defenders and struggles against agro-industrial and mining projects (2021) (0)
Book reviews (2001) (0)
Resource Wars Reframed (2014) (0)
Resource Wars: A Visible Side of Globalization (2007) (0)
Extractives as a Contributor to Conflict (2021) (0)
Anticipating the future of fisheries conflict through narrative scenarios (2020) (0)
The Geopolitics of Conflict and Diamonds in Sierra Leone (2017) (0)
Implications for conflict prevention and termination (2005) (0)
Securing Albertaâs Tar Sands (2012) (0)
[ How to choose one's herd planning ] . [French] (1974) (0)
Implications for conflict prevention and termination (2005) (0)
“Environmental defenders” (0)
Logging in Muddy Waters (2020) (0)
Tax havens are the tip of the iceberg (2018) (0)
Ocean sustainability for all requires deeper behavioural research (2021) (0)
Ocean predators: Squids, Chinese fleets and the geopolitics of high seas fishing (2023) (0)
Conclusion (2005) (0)
Raw Materials, Violence, and Armed Conflicts (2003) (0)
Great Game or Grubby Game? The Struggle for Control of the Caspian (2017) (0)
Land scarcity, resettlement and food security: Assessing the effect of voluntary resettlement on diet quality in Malawi (2019) (0)
Do Resource-Related Peacebuilding Initiatives Build Peace? (2009) (0)
Resource Curse? Governmentality, Oil and Power in the Niger Delta, Nigeria (2017) (0)
Environment, Scarcity, and Violence. Thomas Homer-Dixon. Princeton, London: Princeton University Press, 1999, 253pp. £14 (2002) (0)
Transparency in Environmental and Resource Governance: Theories of Change for the EITI (2021) (0)
Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Determinants of Production Cuts and Implications for an International Agreement (2022) (0)

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