Melissa Marschke

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A fishing vessel is followed by flocks of seabirds in the Southern Ocean off the coast of the South Orkney Islands, north of the Antarctic Peninsula, on March 10, 2023. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

Canada lags behind on efforts to address human rights abuses in seafood supply chains

Peter Vandergeest, York University, Canada; Carli Melo, York University, Canada, and Melissa Marschke, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Canada is an outlier in its failure to hold buyers and retailers accountable for labour abuse in seafood supply chains.
Mine de sable au Népal. L'urbanisation et la demande en béton associée provoquent une crise mondiale du sable. Michael Hoffmann

Banditisme et économie au noir : notre consommation de sable alimente une crise mondiale

Jean-François Rousseau, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Laura Schoenberger, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Melissa Marschke, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa, and Michael Hoffmann, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

L’exploitation non durable ou illégale du sable des écosystèmes marins, côtiers et fluviaux engendre des impacts environnementaux, des émissions de gaz à effet de serre et la disparition des terres.
A sand mine in Nepal. Growing urbanization and its need for concrete is fuelling a global sand crisis. (Michael Hoffmann)

Roving bandits and looted coastlines: How the global appetite for sand is fuelling a crisis

Melissa Marschke, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Jean-François Rousseau, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Laura Schoenberger, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa, and Michael Hoffmann, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

As sand markets boom, entrepreneurs, organized crime and others are cashing in — leaving widespread environmental damage in their wake.

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