The supply chain of violence

Nathalie Butt (), Frances Lambrick, Mary Menton and Anna Renwick
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Nathalie Butt: University of Queensland
Frances Lambrick: Not1More
Mary Menton: University of Sussex
Anna Renwick: University of Queensland

Nature Sustainability, 2019, vol. 2, issue 8, 742-747

Abstract: Abstract Every year, more people are killed defending the environment than are soldiers from the United Kingdom and Australia on overseas deployments in war zones combined. During the last 15 years, the number of both deaths of environmental defenders, and the countries where they occur, have increased. Recorded deaths have increased from two per week to four per week over this period. These deaths are primarily related to conflict over natural resources, across a range of sectors. Of 683 total deaths, >230 were related to mining and agribusiness between 2014 and 2017. We find that rule of law and corruption indices are closely linked to patterns of killings. Using spatial data, we investigate the drivers of these conflicts and violence and seek to identify who may be most at risk and why. We argue that businesses, investors and national governments at both ends of the chain of violence need to be more accountable.

Date: 2019
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