Dr. Juliet Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forest Resources Management and the School for Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. She is a political ecologist focused on conflicts and governance issues around resource extraction and intensive land use. She studies transnational land investments (primarily Chinese rubber plantations in Laos), the promotion of monoculture plantations at the expense of more biodiverse systems, and the rise of private sector sustainable governance initiatives worldwide.
We are happy to announce the launch of the Tracing Forest Risk along Commodity Chains (TRACC) project ! Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the project will run from 2026 to 2031, and asks how sustainable supply chain initiatives ‘see’ deforestation, what they…
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