Business responsibility and government complicity in environmental conflicts_now out!

Very happy that, from an initial intuition some years ago and with the enthusiasm and competence of my co-autors, our paper “Business responsibility and government complicity in environmental conflicts: a quali-quantitative analysis of global patterns” is now out in Local Environment. The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability !

Download immediately your free copy at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13549839.2024.2330404 !

Chiara Certomà, Federico Martellozzo, Stefania Benetti & Roberta Gemmiti(2024) Business responsibility and government complicity in environmental conflicts: a quali-quantitative analysis of global patterns, Local Environment,DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2330404

Our paper aims at widening political ecology research on business’ responsibility and public governance conditions in cases of violation of Environmental-related Human Rights (ERs), by adopting a quantitative perspective. We focused on a subset of socio-environmental conflicts (SECs) that directly connect with the violations of ERs. We propose a quali-quantitative analysis to explore the country distribution of the incidence of violations of ERs leading to SECs (VERCs) worldwide; the extent to which these can be associated with the involvement of business companies; and the general governance conditions spatially associated with the emergence of VERCs, regardless of the involvement of businesses. Through statistical regression analysis, we showed that the evidence of business’ implication in VERCs and of the lack of adequate public governance conditions suggest the need to complexify our perspective with a more nuanced understanding of the patterns of liability and complicity between diverse actors involved in SECs.