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.

Business responsibility and government complicity in environmental conflicts: a quali-quantitative analysis of global patterns / Certomà, Chiara; Martellozzo, Federico; Benetti, Stefania; Gemmiti, Roberta. - In: LOCAL ENVIRONMENT. - ISSN 1354-9839. - ELETTRONICO. - (2024), pp. 1-19. [10.1080/13549839.2024.2330404]

Business responsibility and government complicity in environmental conflicts: a quali-quantitative analysis of global patterns

Martellozzo, Federico;Gemmiti, Roberta
2024

Abstract

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.
2024
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19
Certomà, Chiara; Martellozzo, Federico; Benetti, Stefania; Gemmiti, Roberta
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