Academic articles and publications

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Karin Buhmann

Selected publications:

Buhmann, K (2021). Institutional investors and climate justice: The role of investors in advancing prevention of human rights abuse in investment chains for fossil-free energy. In Volker Mauerhofer (ed) Governance, Law and Sustainability (Routledge): 222- 236

Buhmann, K. (2020). Meaningful stakeholder engagement as an aspect of risk-based due diligence between the economy, politics and law: the constitutive role of the Business & Human Rights regime. In Rachael L. Johnstone and Anne Merrild Hansen (eds) Regulation of Extractive Industries: Community Engagement in the Arctic (Routledge): 78-98

Buhmann, K. (2020). Is mandatory non-financial reporting an effective regulatory strategy for advancing responsible business conduct? Observations on human and labour rights reporting in Denmark 2008-2018. International and Comparative.

Buhmann, K., Jonas Jonsson & Mette Fisker (2019). Do no harm and do more good too: Connecting Business & and Human Rights theory with Political CSR to help companies identify opportunities for contributing to the SDGs. Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, 19(3) 389-403 https://doi.org/10.1108/CG-01-2018-0030

Buhmann, K. (2018). Chinese mineral sourcing interests and Greenland’s potential as a source of ‘conflict-free’ minerals, Arctic Yearbook, Vol 6/7 (special issue on China seeking Arctic resources – the Arctic seeking resources in China, ed. Jesper W. Zeuthen), available at https://arcticyearbook.com/arctic-yearbook/2018/china-the-arctic/2018-sp-scholarly-papers/264-chinese-mineral-sourcing-interests-greenland-s-potential-as-a-source-of-conflict-free-minerals or through https://arcticyearbook.com/arctic-yearbook/2018/china-the-arctic

Buhmann, K. (2018). International law and Corporate Social Responsibility: significance for social impacts of Arctic natural resource exploitation. Yearbook of Polar Law, Brill Publishing: 164-182

Buhmann, K. (2018). Power, Procedure, Participation and Legitimacy in Global Sustainability Regulation: a theory of Collaborative Regulation. Ashgate/Routledge/Taylor & Francis Publishers (in the Globalization: Law and Policy series). 200 pages

Buhmann, K. (2017). Changing sustainability norms through communicative processes: the emergence of the Business & Human Rights regime as transnational law. Edward Elgar Publishers (in the Globalization, Corporations and the Law series). 416 pages

Pamela Lesser

Selected publications:

Koivurova, T., Buanes, Arild., Riabova, Larissa., Didyk, V., Ejdemo, T., Poelzer, G., Taavo, Päivi and Lesser, P. (2015) ‘Social license to operate’: a relevant term in Northern European mining? Polar Geography, Vol 38, no 3 p. 194-227. DOI: 10.1080/1088937X.2015.1056859

Koivurova, T., Lesser, P., Bickford, S., Kankaanpää, P. and Nenasheva, M. (2016) Environmental Impact Assessment in the Arctic: A Guide to Best Practice. Edward Elgar Publishing, UK.

Lesser, P., Gugerell, K., Poelzer, G., Hitch, M., and Tost, M. (2021) European Mining and the Social Licence to Operate, The Extractives Industry and Society, Vol 8 Issue 2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.07.021

Lesser, P. (2021) The road to societal trust: implementation of Towards Sustainable Mining in Finland and Spain, Mineral Economics, Vol 34 pp. 175-186. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13563-021-00260-9

Links:

University of Lapland: https://www.ulapland.fi/FI

Paul Bowles

Professor of Global Studies and Economics, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

Selected publications:

Paul Bowles and Fiona MacPhail, “Social Licence Comes to Greenland’s Mining Sector: Will Communities be Empowered?”, Arctic, 2021 (in press).

Fiona MacPhail and Paul Bowles, “Fractured Alliance: State-Corporate Actions and Resistance to Fossil Fuel Development in Northwest British Columbia”, Journal of Political Ecology, 28, 1, 2021 (in press).

Fiona MacPhail and Paul Bowles, “Fossil Fuel Flashpoints: Towards a Typology with Illustrations from Northern British Columbia” in W. Carroll, (ed.), Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy, University of Lethbridge Press, 2021, pp. 429-52.

Paul Bowles, “The Developmental State and the Study of Globalizations”, Globalizations, 17, 8. 2020, 1421-38, DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2020.1724245

Paul Bowles and Henry Veltmeyer, “Extractivism”, in A, Tittor, B. Leubolt and D. Hawkins, (eds.), Rethinking the Americas: Key Topics in Political Economy and Governance, Volume III Inter American Key Topics Series, London: Routledge, 2020, pp. 103-112.

Paul Bowles, Fiona MacPhail and Darcy Tetreault, “Social Licence versus Procedural Justice: Competing Narratuves of (Il)legitamcy at the San Xavier Mine, Mexico”, Resources Policy, June, 2019, 157-65.

Paul Bowles and Fiona MacPhail, “Contesting Natural Resource Development in Canada:The Legacies and Limits of the Staples Approach”, British Journal of Canadian Studies, (‘Canada 150’ Special Issue), 2019, 32, 2, pp. 167-79.

Links:

http://blogs.unbc.ca/paulbowles/

Jacob Taarup-Esbensen

Associate Professor, PhD, University College Copenhagen Department of Risk and Emergency management

Selected publications:

Taarup-Esbensen, Jacob (2021) “Business continuity management in Greenland – Arcticmining preparedness for business continuity events”, Safety Science, 137(May) DOI:10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105188

Taarup-Esbensen, Jacob (2020) “A resilience-based approach to risk assessments – Building resilient organisations under arctic conditions”, Risk Analysis – An international journal, 40(11) DOI: 10.1111/risa.13535

Taarup-Esbensen, Jacob (2019) “Political Risk as the Management of Legitimacy – Mining MNEs Navigating the Greenlandic Political Landscape”, The Extractive Industries and Society, 6(4) DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2019.10.015

Taarup-Esbensen, Jacob & Movsisyan, Suren (2019) “Corporate management of community risks – Experiences from MNEs in Armenian mining” International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 23(1) DOI: 10.1504/IJBG.2019.10022554

Taarup-Esbensen, Jacob (2019) “Communities as a Risk in Mining – Managing Community Legitimacy”, Risk Research, 23(6) DOI:10.1080/13669877.2019.1628095

Taarup-Esbensen, Jacob (2019) “Mining MNEs strengthening local institutions: Legitimise business continuity in mining”, The Extractive Industries and Society, 6(2) DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2019.02.003

Links:

jata@kp.dk

https://www.ucviden.dk/da/persons/jacob-taarup-esbensen

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-taarup-esbensen-phd-1035357/

Sanne Vammen Larsen

Relevant publications:

– Larsen SV (In press 2021), Inclusion of Uncertainty in Environmental Impact Assessment in Greenland, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 89, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2021.106583

Larsen SV, Hansen AM, Dahl PPE and Morales AH (2019) Guidance Note on Indigenous and Local Community: Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment in the European Arctic, Luxembourg: European Investment Bank, https://www.eib.org/attachments/guidance_note_on_indegenous_and_local_community_en.pdf

Links:

https://vbn.aau.dk/da/persons/104245

Emma Wilson

Relevant publications:

Wilson, E. (2020) Voluntary standards and free, prior and informed consent: Insights for improving implementation, London: ISEAL. https://www.isealalliance.org/sites/default/files/resource/2020-11/Voluntary-standards-and-FPIC_ISEAL_11-2020.pdf

Wilson, E., Norton, P., Ahmed, S., Jones, D. and A. Mills (2020) Public Engagement and the Green Recovery: a Guidance Note for Local Authorities, UK: the Consultation Institute. https://www.consultationinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Green-Recovery-Guidance-Note-July-15.pdf

Wilson, E. (2020) ‘Indigenous rights and resource development in the Arctic: an overview of international standards and principles for consultation, participation and consent,’ in Johnstone, R.L. and Hansen, A.M. (eds.) Regulation of Extractive Industries: community engagement in the Arctic. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. 11-46. https://www.routledge.com/Regulation-of-Extractive-Industries-Community-Engagement-in-the-Arctic/Johnstone-Hansen/p/book/9780367181796

Wilson, E. (2019) ‘What is Benefit Sharing? Respecting Indigenous Rights and Addressing Inequities in Arctic Resource Projects.’ Resources 8(2), 74. https://doi.org/10.3390/resources8020074

Wilson, E. (2017) Evaluating international ethical standards and instruments for indigenous rights and the extractive industries. Ájluokta/Drag, Norway: Árran Lule Sami Centre. https://tinyurl.com/IndigenousStandards
Wilson, E., Hansen, A.M. and Wilson Rowe, E. (2017) ‘Imagining the future: local perceptions of Arctic extractive projects that didn’t happen,’ in Kelman, I. (ed.) Arcticness and change: Power and voice from the north. London: University College London Press. https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88283

Wilson, E. (2016) ‘Negotiating uncertainty: corporate responsibility and Greenland’s energy future.’ In Energy Research and Social Science journal, Vol.16, June 2016, pp.69-77. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221462961630038X

Wilson, E. (2015) Energy and minerals in Greenland: governance, corporate responsibility and social resilience. London: IIED. https://pubs.iied.org/16561IIE

Links:

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/emmacwilson

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wake-up-smell-flowers-emma-wilson/

Rachael Lorna Johnstone

Key publications:

· Rachael Lorna Johnstone and Anne Merrild Hansen, eds., Regulation of Extractive Industries: Community Engagement in the Arctic (Routledge, 2020).

· Rachael Lorna Johnstone and Scott Joblin, “Non-living Resources and the Poles” in Research Handbook on Polar Law, Karen Scott and David VanderZwaag, eds., (Edward Elgar, 2020), 249-270.

Rachael Lorna Johnstone, “What is required for Free, Prior and Informed Consent and where does it apply?” in Regulation of Extractive Industries: Community Engagement in the Arctic, eds. Rachael Lorna Johnstone and Anne Merrild Hansen (Routledge, 2020).

Rachael Lorna Johnstone and Anne Merrild Hansen, “Comparative expectations of resource development in selected Greenland communities” in Regulation of Extractive Industries: Community Engagement in the Arctic, eds. Rachael Lorna Johnstone and Anne Merrild Hansen (Routledge, 2020).

Anne Merrild Hansen and Rachael Lorna Johnstone, “Arctic Voices: Strategies for Community Engagement” in Regulation of Extractive Industries: Community Engagement in the Arctic, eds. Rachael Lorna Johnstone and Anne Merrild Hansen (Routledge, 2020).

Rachael Lorna Johnstone, “The Impact of International Law on Natural Resource Governance in Greenland,” Polar Record, Special Issue: “International Law for Sustainability in Arctic Resource Development,” 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247419000287.

Anne Merrild Hansen and Rachael Lorna Johnstone, “In the Shadow of the Mountain: Assessing early impacts on community development from two mining prospects in South Greenland” 6(2) The Extractive Industries and Society, 2019, 480-488. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2019.01.012 .

Links:

https://www.unak.is/english/moya/ugla/staff/rachael-lorna-johnstone (University of Akureyri)

https://uk.uni.gl/find-employee/department-of-law/rachael-lorna-johnstone.aspx (University of Greenland)

Cristián Flores

Links:

https://www.iri-thesys.org/people/Cristian%20Flores%20Fernandez
https://www.iri-thesys.org/institute
florescr@hu-berlin.de

Prof. Mark CJ Stoddart (he/him)

Graduate Officer, Department of Sociology, Memorial University
Associate Editor, Environmental Sociology
Board Member, International Sociological Association RC24: Environment & Society
Treasurer, Canadian Sociological Association

Relevant publications:

Stoddart, Mark C.J., Alice Mattoni, and John McLevey (2020). Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms: Can Oil Extraction and Nature Conservation Co-Exist? Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-55944-1

Kukkonen, Anna, Mark C.J. Stoddart, and Tuomas Ylä-Anttila (2021). “Actors and Justifications in Media Debates on Arctic Climate Change in Finland and Canada: A network approach.” Acta Sociologica 64(1): 103-117. doi:10.1177/0001699319890902

Stoddart, Mark C.J., and B. Quinn Burt (2020). “Energy Justice and Offshore Oil: Weighing Environmental Risk and Privilege in the North Atlantic.” Environmental Sociology 6(4): 390-402. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2020.1782026

Stoddart, Mark C.J., Patrick McCurdy, Natalie Slawinski, and Cory G. Collins (2020). “Envisioning Social Futures in the North Atlantic Oil Industry: Avoidance, Persistence, and Transformation as responses to Climate Change.” Energy Research & Social Science 69: 101662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101662

Stoddart, Mark C.J., John McLevey, Vanessa Schweizer, and Catherine Wong (2020). “Climate Change and Energy Futures – Theoretical Frameworks, Epistemological Issues, and Methodological Perspectives.” Society & Natural Resources 33(11): 1331-1338. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2020.1830456

Stoddart, Mark C.J., Max Chewinski, B. Quinn Burt, and Megan Stewart (2019). “Political Consumerism in the Oil and Mining Extractive Industries: Possibilities for Sustainability and Social Justice.” The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism (pp. 367-388). M. Bostrom, M. Micheletti, and P. Oosterveer, Eds. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190629038.013.18

Stoddart, Mark C.J., Jillian Rene Smith, and Paula Graham (2018). “Oil Opposition: Creating Friction in Energy Politics.” Energy and Society Handbook (pp. 447-460). D. J. Davidson and M. Gross, Eds. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190633851.013.26

Stoddart, Mark C.J., and Jillian Smith (2016). “The Endangered Arctic, the Arctic as Resource Frontier: News Media Narratives of Climate Change and the North.” Canadian Review of Sociology 53(3): 316-336. https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.12111

Links:

https://www.mun.ca/soc/people/faculty-profiles/mark-c-j-stoddart.php

Alberto Fonseca

Latest publications:

Fonseca, A., & Gibson, R. B. (2021). Why are projects rarely rejected in environmental impact assessments? Narratives of justifiability in Brazilian and Canadian review reports. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1-23. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2020.1852073

Pimenta, M. A., & Fonseca, A. (2021). To what extent are threatened plant species considered in impact assessment decision-making? Insights from southeastern Brazil. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 86, 106516. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2020.106516

Fonseca, A., de Brito, L. L. A., & Gibson, R. B. (2020). Methodological pluralism in environmental impact prediction and significance evaluation: A case for standardization? Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 80, 106320. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2019.106320

Fonseca, A. Gibson, R.B. (2020). Testing an ex-ante framework for the evaluation of impact assessment laws: Lessons from Canada and Brazil. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, v. 81, p. 106355. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2019.106355

da Cruz, J. C., Barella, C. F., & Fonseca, A. (2020). Compensating deforestation with forest surplus: Key regulatory issues within Brazil’s atlantic forest. Ecological Economics, 167, 106444. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106444

Fonseca, A., & Rivera Fernández, G. M. (2020). Reviewers’ perceptions of the volume of information provided in environmental impact statements: The case for refocusing attention on what is relevant. Journal of Cleaner Production, 251,119757. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119757

Links:

https://liga.ufop.br/
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQYk2eflw1slEnWKuA9kW3be1dwGRxc6v

Dorothée Cambou

Relevant publications:

Cambou, D. (2020). Uncovering injustices in the green transition: Sámi rights in the development of wind energy in Sweden. Arctic Review on Law and Politics, 11, 310-333. https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v11.2293

Cambou, D., & Poelzer, G. (Forthcoming 2021). Enhancing Energy justice in the Arctic: An appraisal of the participation of Arctic indigenous peoples in the transition to renewable energy. In D. Natcher, & T. Koivurova (Eds.), Renewable Economies in the Arctic: A State of Knowledge Sustainable Development Working Group: Arctic Council

Buhmann, K., Bowles, P., Cambou, D., Hurup Skjervedal, A-S., & Stoddart, M. (Forthcoming 2021). Towards socially sustainable renewable energy projects through involvement of local communities:Normative aspects and practices on the ground. In D. Natcher, & T. Koivurova (Eds.), Renewable Economies in the Arctic: A State of Knowledge Sustainable Development Working Group: Arctic Council.

Cambou, D., Gilbert, J., & Dégrèmont, M. (2019). Marine Protected Areas and Indigenous Peoples’ rights: A case study of the National Park of the Coral Sea in New Caledonia. In S. Allen, N. Bankes, & Ø. Ravna (Eds.), The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Marine Areas, Hart publishing (pp. 191–212).

Links:

https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/dorothee-cambou

Nathan Andrews, PhD

Relevant publications:

Andrews, Nathan, Nathan Bennett, Philippe Le Billon, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Sandra Amongin, Stephanie Green, Noella Gray and Rashid Sumaila. (2021). “Oil, Fisheries and Coastal Communities: A Review of Impacts on the Environment, Livelihoods, Spaces and Governance,” Energy Research and Social Science (accepted & forthcoming).

Andrews, Nathan. (2021). “Corporate Social Responsibility as Sensemaking and Sensegiving in a Hydrocarbon Industry.” Business & Society Review (accepted & forthcoming).

Andrews Nathan and Pius Siakwah (2021). Oil and Development in Ghana: Beyond the Resource Curse. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Oil-and-Development-in-Ghana-Beyond-the-Resource-Curse/Andrews-Siakwah/p/book/9780367427191

4Andrews, Nathan and Marcellinus Essah (2020). “The Sustainable Development Conundrum in Gold Mining: Exploring ‘Open, Prior and Independent Deliberate Discussion’ as a Community-Centered Framework.” Resources Policy (accepted & forthcoming). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2020.101798

Enns, Charis, Nathan Andrews and J. Andrew Grant (2020). “Security for Whom? Analyzing Hybrid Security Governance in Africa’s Extractive Sectors.” International Affairs Vol. 94(4): 995-1013 (open access). https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiaa090

Andrews, Nathan and J. Andrew Grant eds. (2020). Corporate Social Responsibility and Canada’s Role in Africa’s Extractive Sectors. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. https://utorontopress.com/ca/corporate-social-responsibility-and-canada-x2019-s-role-in-africa-x2019-s-extractive-sectors-1

Andrews, Nathan (2019). Gold Mining and the Discourses of Corporate Social Responsibility in Ghana. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319923208

Bennett, Nathan J., Andres M. Cisneros-Montemayor, Jessica Blythe, Jennifer J. Silver, Gerald Singh and Nathan Andrews et al. (2019). “Towards a sustainable and equitable blue economy.” Nature Sustainability Vol. 2: 991-993. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0404-1

Andrews, Nathan (2019). “Normative Spaces and the UN Global Compact for Transnational Corporations: The Norm Diffusion Paradox.” Journal of International Relations &Development Vol. 22(1): 77-106. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-017-0103-3

Links:

https://www2.unbc.ca/international-studies-graduate-program/dr-nathan-andrews

Giuseppe Amatulli

Durham Arctic PhD programme,
Department of Anthropology, Durham University, UK.
UArctic Board Member (PhD Student Representative)
Fellow of the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Sustainable Resources and Social Responsibility
giuseppe.amatulli@durham.ac.uk

Relevant publications:

Amatulli Giuseppe, Northern Political Economy (NPI) Symposium 2017: ‘Political Arctic/Arctic Political’, Conference Reports, in ‘The Polar Journal’, Vol. 8, Issue 1, pp. 207-208, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2018.1477306

Amatulli, Giuseppe & Klein, Joëlle, ‘Community security in the Barents Region’, in ‘Society, Environment and Human Security in the Arctic Barents Region’. Oxford: Routledge, 2018. ISBN: 9780815399841 www.routledge.com/Society-Environment-and-Human-Security-in-the-Arctic-Barents-Region/HossainCambou/p/book/9780815399841

Amatulli, Giuseppe, ‘The role of China in the Arctic: challenges and opportunities for a sustainable development of the region’, pp. 1-8, in Jindal Global Law Review, Springer India, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s41020-017-0042-2. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs41020-017-0042-2

Amatulli, Giuseppe, ‘The implementation of international law in the national framework: compliance of the national law of Finland, Norway and Sweden with the ILO Convention No. 169’, pp. 111-120, in Rivista della Cooperazione Giuridica Internazionale, Anno XVII, No. 50, Maggio-Agosto 2015. DOI:10.4399/97888548865827. http://www.aracneeditrice.it/aracneweb/index.php/pubblicazione.html?item=9788854886582

Amatulli, Giuseppe, ‘Microfinance and Human Rights: a possible coexistence? General study on the role of MFIs in contributing to fulfil Human Rights’, ADA – European Impact Investing Luxembourg (EIIL), July 2015. http://www.impact-investing.eu/blog-publications/article/2015/07/microfinance-and-human-rights-a-possible-coexistence

Amatulli, Giuseppe, ‘The legal position of the Sami in the exploitation of mineral resources in Finland, Norway and Sweden’, Åbo: Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, February 2015. https://www.abo.fi/en/institute-for-human-rights/publications-and-databases/institute-for-human-rights-research-reports/

Amatulli, Giuseppe & Klein, Joëlle, ‘Community security in the Barents Region’, in ‘Society, Environment and Human Security in the Arctic Barents Region’. Oxford: Routledge, 20

Links:

https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/arctic/doctoral/2018/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuseppe-amatulli-71764675/