Blood and earth: modern slavery, ecocide, and the secret to saving the world
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 19 - Politics and International Studies
- Output identifier
- 1324617
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Penguin: Random House
- ISBN
- 0812995767
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 97,000-word, single-authored book is the first examination of modern slavery and environmental destruction. It represents seven years of work, including hundreds of interviews during field-research and with environmental scientists and policy-makers. Bales’ extensive fieldwork to produce deep case studies involved months in Eastern Congo’s war-zone, Western Ghana’s gold-mining region, the Brazilian Amazon, and the Bangladesh Sundarbans. The book was published in English, Chinese and Japanese, featured by dozens of major media outlets (CBC, CNN, NPR, PBS), excerpted by Scientific American, chosen for National Reading Month by Oprah’s Book Club, and won the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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