{"id":2,"date":"2015-01-27T17:27:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T17:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lebillon\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-04-21T10:54:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T17:54:04","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lebillon\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philippe Le Billon (MBA Paris, PhD Oxford) is a Professor at the University of British Columbia with the Department of Geography and the Liu Institute for Global Issues.<\/p>\n

Before joining UBC, I was a Research Associate with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), with fieldwork in Angola, Cambodia, Colombia, Iraq, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and the former-Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n

Please click on this link to download a PDF copy of my CV.<\/a><\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/span><\/h2>\n
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  • political ecology<\/li>\n
  • natural resource governance<\/li>\n
  • international development<\/li>\n
  • violence and space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    I am interested in\u00a0relations between environment, development and security, with an empirical focus on primary commodities<\/span>.<\/p>\n

    Using a political ecology approach, I investigate socio-environmental relations and commodity networks linking spaces of exploitation, consumption and regulation. Such work engages with the spatiality, materiality and socio-natural construction of ‘resources’, their political economy and socio-environmental impacts, as well as associated development challenges and conflicts.<\/p>\n

    This research also relates to policy reforms in resource governance as well as international development and trade frameworks, notably to reduce environmental impacts, improve the well-being of populations, and increase the accountability of governments and businesses.<\/p>\n

    I also work on the political economy of war and reconstruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Philippe Le Billon (MBA Paris, PhD Oxford) is a Professor at the University of British Columbia with the Department of Geography and the Liu Institute for Global Issues. Before joining UBC, I was a Research Associate with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), with fieldwork in Angola, Cambodia, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28914,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lebillon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lebillon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lebillon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lebillon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lebillon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lebillon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lebillon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lebillon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}