Peter Dauvergne is a professor of international relations, specializing in global environmental politics. His research covers the politics of social movements, consumption, technology, and corporations, especially the consequences for social inequality and ecosystem degradation in the global South.

Professor Dauvergne has published 90 articles/chapters and 21 books, including Identified, Tracked, and Profiled: The Politics of Resisting Facial Recognition Technology (Edward Elgar, 2022, available open access), AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (MIT Press, 2020), Will Big Business Destroy Our Planet? (Polity, 2018), Environmentalism of the Rich (MIT, 2016, winner of APSA’s Michael Harrington Book Award), Protest Inc. (with G. LeBaron, Polity, 2014, shortlisted for BISA’s IPE Book Prize), Eco-Business (with J. Lister, MIT, 2013), Paths to a Green World, 2nd ed. (with J. Clapp, MIT, 2011), Timber (with J. Lister, Polity, 2011), and The Shadows of Consumption (MIT, 2008, winner of the Gerald L. Young Book Award). His books have been translated into Arabic, Persian/Farsi, Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin.

At UBC, he has served as associate dean (2006-08), senior adviser to the president (2008-09), and director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues (2009-14). He is also the founding and past editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics.

In 2016, the International Studies Association presented him with its Distinguished Scholar Award for Environmental Studies.

In 2018, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC).

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Professor Dauvergne has published 21 books and 90 journal articles and book chapters. Below is a sampling.

Books

• Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism, 3rd ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024) (2nd edition in 2016; 1st edition in 2009, in paperback as The A to Z of Environmentalism).
• Global Environmental Politics in a Turbulent Era, edited (with Leah Shipton) (Edward Elgar, 2023).
• Identified, Tracked, and Profiled: The Politics of Resisting Facial Recognition Technology (Edward Elgar, 2022)
• AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (MIT Press, 2020).
• Will Big Business Destroy Our Planet? (Polity, 2018).
• A Research Agenda for Global Environmental Politics, edited (with Justin Alger) (Edward Elgar, 2018).
• Environmentalism of the Rich (MIT Press, 2016). Recipient of the 2017 Michael Harrington Book Award from the New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA).
• Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism, 2nd ed. (Scarecrow, 2016) (1st edition in 2009; in paperback as The A to Z of Environmentalism).
• Protest Inc.: The Corporatization of Activism (with Genevieve LeBaron) (Polity, 2014). Korean translation 2015. Shortlisted for the 2015 International Political Economy Book Prize of the British International Studies Association.
• Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability (with Jane Lister) (MIT Press, 2013).
• Environmental Politics (editor) (Edward Elgar, 2013).
• Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, 2nd ed. (editor) (Edward Elgar, 2012) (1st edition in 2005).
• Timber (with Jane Lister) (Polity, 2011).
• Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment (with Jennifer Clapp), 2nd ed. (MIT Press, 2011) (1st edition in 2005; Japanese Translation 2008).
• The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment (MIT Press, 2008). (Awarded the Society of Human Ecology’s Gerald L. Young Award for the best book authored in 2008 in the field of human ecology.) (Arabic Translation in 2013; Chinese translation in 2018).
• Loggers and Degradation in the Asia-Pacific: Corporations and Environmental Management (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
• Weak and Strong States in Asia-Pacific Societies (editor) (Allen and Unwin, 1998).
• Shadows in the Forest: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia (MIT Press, 1997). (Awarded the ISA’s 1998 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for the best book on international environmental affairs.)

Journal Articles Since 2009

2024

• “Incremental Progress or Dangerous Incrementalism? The Case of Tire Wear Pollution in Global Environmental Governance,” Environmental Politics (2024), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2024.2425262
• (with Katherine Poole Lehnhoff), “The Power of Biojustice Environmentalism in the Global South: Insights from the Politics of Reducing Single-Use Plastics in Guatemala,” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (2024). 10.1080/09640568.2024.2386550
• (with Justin Alger), “The Politics of the Global Movement to Ban Face Surveillance,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 25 (1) (Summer) (2024): 113–122.
• Jianfeng Jeffrey Qi, Peter Dauvergne, Sirini Jeudy-Hugo, Jamal Srouji, Jen Iris Allan, Benjamin Georges-Picot, Tom Evans, Arthur Wyns, Anne Barre, Danica Marie Supnet, Enrique Maurtua Konstantinidis, Anne Hammill, Nathan Cogswell, and Pratishtha Singh. Reflections on the first Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement. Earth System Governance 21 (August) (2024): 100212.
• Sean Low, Miranda Boettcher, Shinichiro Asayama, Chad Baum, Amanda Borth, Calum Brown, Forrest Clingerman, Peter Dauvergne, Kari De Pryck, Aarti Gupta, Matthias Honegger, Dominic Lenzi, Renate Reitsma, Felix Schenuit, Celina Scott-Buechler, and Jose Maria Valenzuela. “An Earth System Governance Research Agenda for Carbon Removal,” Earth System Governance 19 (January) (2024): 100204.

2023

• “The Necessity of Justice for a Fair, Legitimate, and Effective Treaty on Plastic Pollution,” Marine Policy 155 (September) (2023): 105785.
• “Governing Plastics: The Power and Importance of Activism in the Global South,” Environmental Science and Policy 147 (September) (2023): 147–153.
• (with Jennifer Clapp), “Surging Biojustice Environmentalism from Below: Hope for Ending the Earth System Emergency?” Global Environmental Politics 23 (4) (2023): 3–16.
• (with Saima Islam), “The Politics of Anti-Plastics Activism in Indonesia and Malaysia,” Cambridge Prisms: Plastics 1, e1 (2023), 1–9, https://doi.org/10.1017/plc.2023.3

2022

• (with Jianfeng Jeffrey Qi), “China and the Global Politics of Nature-Based Solutions,” Environmental Science and Policy 137 (November) (2022): 1–11.
• “Facial Recognition Technology for Policing and Surveillance in the Global South: A Call for Bans,” Third World Quarterly 43 (9) (2022):  2325–2335.
• “Is Artificial Intelligence Greening Supply Chains? Exposing the Political Economy of Environmental Costs,” Review of International Political Economy 29 (3) (2022): 696–718.
• (with Jianfeng Jeffrey Qi), “China’s Rising Influence on Climate Governance: Forging a Path for the Global South,” Global Environmental Change 73 (March) (2022), 102484, pp. 1–13.
• (with Leah Shipton), “The Influence of Home Country Institutions on the Adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility Policies by Transnational Mining Corporations,” The Extractive Industries and Society 10 (June) (2022), 101077, pp. 1–12.
• (with Leah Shipton), “Health Concerns of Plastics: Energizing the Global Diffusion of Anti-Plastic Norms,” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 65 (11) (2022): 2124-2144.

2021

• (with Leah Shipton), “The Politics of Transnational Advocacy Against Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian Extractive Projects in the Global South,” The Journal of Environment & Development 30 (3) (2021): 240–264.
• (with Justin Alger and Jane Lister), “Corporate Governance and the Environmental Politics of Shipping,” Global Governance 27 (1) (2021): 144–166.
• “The Globalization of Artificial Intelligence: Consequences for the Politics of Environmentalism,” Globalizations 18 (2) (2021): 285–299.

2019-20

• (with Justin Alger), “The Translocal Politics of Environmental Norm Diffusion,” Environmental Communication 14 (2) (2020): 155–167.
• R.D. Garrett, S. Levy, K.M. Carlson, T.A. Gardner, J. Godar, J. Clapp, P. Dauvergne, R. Heilmayr, Y. le Polain de Waroux, B. Ayre, R. Barr, B. Døvre, H.K. Gibbs, S. Hall, S. Lake, J. Milder, L.L. Rausch, R. Rivero, X. Rueda, R. Sarsfield, B. Soares-Filho, and N. Villoria, “Criteria for Effective Zero-Deforestation Commitments,” Global Environmental Change 54 (2019): 135–147.

2018

• “Why is the Global Governance of Plastic Failing the Oceans?,” Global Environmental Change 51 (July) (2018): 22–31.
• “The Power of Environmental Norms: Marine Plastic Pollution and the Politics of Microbeads,” Environmental Politics 27 (4) (2018): 579–597.  Online First.
• “The Global Politics of the Business of ‘Sustainable’ Palm Oil,” Global Environmental Politics 18 (2) (2018): 34–52.
• (with Jonathan Kishen Gamu), “The Slow Violence of Corporate Social Responsibility: The Case of Mining in Peru,” Third World Quarterly 35 (5) (2018): 959–975. Online First.
• (with Miriam Matejova and Stefan Parker), “The Politics of Repressing Environmentalists as Agents of Foreign Influence,” Australian Journal of International Affairs 72 (2) (2018): 145–162. Online First.

2017

• (with Justin Alger), “The Global Norm of Large Marine Protected Areas: Explaining Variable Adoption and Implementation,” Environmental Policy & Governance 27 (4) (2017): 298–310.
• “Is the Power of Brand-focused Activism Rising? The Case of Tropical Deforestation,” The Journal of Environment & Development 22 (4) (2017): 391–410.
• (with Genevieve LeBaron and Jane Lister), “Governing Global Supply Chain Sustainability Through the Ethical Audit Regime,” Globalizations 14 (6) (2017): 958–975.
• (with Justin Alger), “The Politics of Pacific Ocean Conservation: Lessons from the Pitcairn Islands Marine Reserve,” Pacific Affairs 90 (1) (2017): 29–50. Shortlisted for the William L. Holland Prize for the most outstanding article published in 2017 in the journal Pacific Affairs.
• Sonja Klinsky, Timmons Roberts, Saleemul Huq, Chukwumerije Okereke, Peter Newell, Peter Dauvergne, Karen O’Brien, Heike Schroeder, Petra Tschakert, Jennifer Clapp, Margaret Keck, Frank Biermann, Diana Liverman, Joyeeta Gupta, Atiq Rahman, Dirk Messner, David Pellow, Steffen Bauer, “Why Equity is Fundamental in Climate Change Policy Research,” Global Environmental Change 44 (May) (2017): 170–173.

2014-16

• (with Charles Roger), “The Rise of Transnational Governance as a Field of Study,” International Studies Review (2016) 18 (3): 415–437.
• (with Jennifer Clapp), “Researching Global Environmental Politics in the 21st Century,” Global Environmental Politics 16 (1) (2016): 1–12.
• (with Sara Elder), “Farming for Walmart: The Politics of Corporate Control and Responsibility in the Global South,” The Journal of Peasant Studies 42 (5) (2015), pp. 1029–1046.
• (with Sara Elder and Jane Lister), “Big Retail and Sustainable Coffee: A New Development Studies Research Agenda,” Progress in Development Studies (PIDS) 14 (1) (2014), pp. 77–90.

2012-13

• (with Genevieve LeBaron), “The Social Cost of Environmental Solutions,” New Political Economy 18 (3) (2013), pp. 410–430.
• (with Jen Iris Allan), “The Global South in Environmental Negotiations: The Politics of REDD+ Coalitions,” Third World Quarterly 34(8) (2013): 1307–1322.
• (with Charles Roger), “Private Authority,” pp. 573-575, in Jean-Frédéric Morin and Amandine Orsini, eds., “Insights from Global Environmental Governance,”International Studies Review 15 (2013), pp. 562–589.
• (with Kate J. Neville), “Biofuels and the Politics of Mapmaking,” Political Geography 31 (5) (2012), pp. 279–289.
• (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.

2009-12

• (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 (3) (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.
• (with Kate J. Neville), “The Changing North-South and South-South Political Economy of Biofuels,” Third World Quarterly 30 (6) (2009): 1087–1102.

Book Chapters Since 2012

• “The Anthropocene and Governance: Explaining the Escalating Global Crisis,” in Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson, eds. Global Governance Futures (London and New York: Routledge, 2021): 26–39
• “The Political Economy of the Global Environment,” in John Ravenhill, ed., Global Political Economy, 6th edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
• (co-authored with Justin Alger), “Researching Global Environmental Politics: Trends, Gaps, and Emerging Issues, ” in Peter Dauvergne and Justin Alger, eds., A Research Agenda for Global Environmental Politics (Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar, 2018): 1–14.
• “The Coming Crisis of Planetary Instability,” in Colin Hay and Tom Hunt, eds., The Coming Crisis (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018): 53–60.
• (co-authored with Genevieve LeBaron and Jane Lister), “The New Gatekeepter: Ethical Audits as a Mechanism of Global Value Chain Governance,” in A. Claire Cutler and Thomas Dietz, eds., The Politics of Private Transnational Governance by Contract (London and New York: Routledge, 2017): 97–114.
• “The Political Economy of the Global Environment,” in John Ravenhill, ed., Global Political Economy, 5th edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017): 387–414.
• “The Sustainability Story: Exposing Truths, Half-Truths, and Illusions,” in Simon Nicholson and Sikina Jinnah, eds., New Earth Politics (MIT Press, 2016): 387–404.
• (co-authored with Kate J. Neville), “The Problematic of Biofuels for Development,” in Jean Grugel and Daniel Hammett, eds., The Palgrave Handbook of International Development (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016): 649–668.
• (co-authored with Jane Lister), “Voluntary Zero Net Deforestation: The Implications of Demand-Side Retail Sustainability for Global Forests,” in William Nikolakis and John Innes, eds., Forests and Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development (London: Earthscan, 2014), pp. 65–76.
• Introduction: The Field of Environmental Politics,” in Peter Dauvergne, Environmental Politics (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013), pp. xiii–xxiv.
• “Research Trends in Global Environmental Politics,” in Peter Dauvergne, Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, second edition (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012), pp. 3–28.

Career Awards

• Killam Research Prize for “outstanding research and scholarly contributions,” awarded by the University of British Columbia (2020).
• Inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) (2018).
• Recipient of the 2016 International Studies Association’s Distinguished Scholar Award in Environmental Studies.
• Recipient of the Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Politics (2002-2012).

Book Awards

• Recipient of the 2017 Michael Harrington Book Award for “an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world,” awarded by the New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) for Environmentalism of the Rich (MIT Press, 2106).
• Finalist for the 2015 International Political Economy Book Prize of the British International Studies Association for Protest Inc.: The Corporatization of Activism, coauthored with Genevieve LeBaron (Polity Press, 2014).
• Recipient of the 2009 Gerald L. Young Award for the best book authored in 2008 in the field of human ecology, awarded by the Society for Human Ecology for The Shadows of Consumption (MIT Press, 2008).
• Recipient of the 1998 Sprout Award from the International Studies Association for the best book in global environmental affairs, for Shadows in the Forest (MIT Press, 1997).

Article Awards

• Recipient of the 2019 Boyer Prize for “best article” published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs (AJIA) in 2018, for Miriam Matejova, Stefan Parker, and Peter Dauvergne, “The Politics of Repressing Environmentalists as Agents of Foreign Influence,” Australian Journal of International Affairs 72 (2) (2018): 145–162.
• Finalist for the William L. Holland Prize for the most outstanding article published in 2017 in the journal Pacific Affairs, for Justin Alger and Peter Dauvergne, “The Politics of Pacific Ocean Conservation: Lessons from the Pitcairn Islands Marine Reserve,” Pacific Affairs 90 (1) (March) (2017): 29–50.

PhD and Postdoctoral Supervisions Since 2009

Professor Dauvergne is currently recruiting new MA and PhD students who want to specialize in global environmental politics, global resource governance, or the international politics of sustainability in developing countries. His UBC graduate students include:

• Simon Beaudoin (PhD, in progress since 2024).
• Leah Shipton (PhD, in progress since 2019), Term Instructor, School of Public Policy, Simon Fraser University
• Dr. Miriam Matejova (PhD, 2019), Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Masaryk University in Brno
• Dr. Justin Alger (PhD, 2017), Lecturer/Assistant Professor, University of Melbourne
• Dr. Jonathan Gamu (PhD, 2017), Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Sheffield University
• Dr. Jennifer Allan (PhD, 2017), Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University
• Dr. Sara Elder (PhD, 2016), Policy Advisor, Economic Law and Policy Program, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
• Dr. Charles Roger (PhD, 2016), Associate Professor, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)
• Dr. Déborah Barros Leal Farias (PhD, 2014), Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Dr. Genevieve LeBaron (Postdoc, 2013), Professor and Director, School of Public Policy, Simon Fraser University
• Dr. Kate J. Neville (PhD, 2012), Associate Professor, Department of Political Science & School of Environment, University of Toronto
• Dr. David Seekings (PhD, 2010), Manager, Reach 2.0, Collaborations and Solutions in HIV, HCV and STI Research, Toronto
• Dr. Jane Lister (PhD, 2009; Postdoc, 2013), Associate Director of the Centre for Transportation, Sauder School of Business, UBC

MA Supervisions at UBC

• Michelle Marcus (MA, 2024); Deborah Ajayi (MA, 2021); Jennifer Fleming (MA, 2021); Jeffrey Qi (MA, 2021); Aatika Moollabhai (MA, 2021); Meghan Wise (MA, 2021); Madison Jones (MA, 2020); Elena Plotnikoff (MA, 2020); Stephanie Kometer (MA, 2019); Zoe Beynon-MacKinnon (MA, 2019);  Luke Fitzgerald (MA, 2019); Aliya Hai (MA, 2019); Anthony Matarazzo (MA, 2018); Gabrielle Matheson (MA, 2018); Shona Zhang (MA, 2018); Christina Chang Pan (MA, 2018); Stefan Parker (MA, 2017); Michaela Pedersen-Macnab (MA, 2017), Dushan Pjevovic (MA, 2017); Charles Bain (MA, 2017); Samuel Couture Brière (MA, 2013); Ted Thomas (MA, 2013); Rumana Monzur (MA, 2013); William Gochberg (MA, 2012); Rama (Kiosh) Iselin (MA, 2011); Colin Trehearne (MA, 2005); Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna (MA, 2005); Katherine Hall (MA, 2005); Talusier Arbour LaSalle (MA, 2005); Lindsay Haselton (MA, 2005); Tracey Janes (MA, 2005); Ashley Hamilton (MA, 2004); Hamish van der Ven (MA, 2004); Samantha Kohn (MA, 2003).