
Philippe Le Billon
@plebillon
Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia
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05-05-2015 04:37:30
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#BREAKING: New Oceana-supported study of illegal fishing's root causes finds that enforcement disproportionately criminalizes #smallscalefishers while letting industrial fishers off the hook. By @dyhiapadilla Philippe Le Billon Nathan J Bennett in Nature Human Behaviour



My take on why the Shell, BP and Exxon exits from Russian oil should prompt the industry to abandon its affairs with kleptocrats, in Foreign Policy today. foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/04/rus…


“What emboldened Putin was not only petroleum flows, but the herd behavior in financial markets,” Albert Pinto writes. Brilliant review of new book by Rupert Russell 🏳️🌈 + work by Yaneer Bar-Yam, @cullenhendrix. prospect.org/culture/books/…

New IUU research journal article - Belhabib, D., & Le Billon, P. (2022) Fish crimes in the global oceans. Science Advances, 8(12), eabj1927. (Open Access) A very comprehensive piece of research by my ex-UBC colleague @dyhiapadilla and Philippe Le Billon science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…




READ: Foreign ownership of fishing vessels, ex. Spanish & Chinese, to West African nations is linked to a higher likelihood of committing illegal fishing and other infractions, says @Oceana-supported study: bit.ly/3UyUL9Z @dyhiapadilla Philippe Le Billon Frontiers - Marine Science #IUU

Latest study on China's distant water fishing fleet and its impacts in South America with Isabella Montecalvo Philippe Le Billon & Milko Schvartzman sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"Rashid Sumaila was awarded the 2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement jointly with @UBCOceans professor Dr. Daniel Pauly, for their research & efforts to ban fishing on the high seas... (Dr. Sumaila) is concerned about the impacts of deep sea mining." ubyssey.ca/news/ubc-stude… Sea Around Us | Bluesky: @seaaroundus.org UBC SPPGA



New Report with @cpluscp and Third World Network: Exporting Extinction: How the International Financial System Constrains Biodiverse Futures! Read it here: bit.ly/extinction-rep…