2026 Philippe Le Billon: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	52	2416	2201	135	128	148	12103

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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135

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148

12103

Social Sciences and Humanities

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Citations

12103

World Ranking

2416

National Ranking

135

Overview

Philippe Le Billon is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with significant focus on Sociology and Political Science, Building and Construction, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work covers diverse topics, including:

Mining and Resource Management
Coastal and Marine Management
Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
Climate Change Policy and Economics
Sex work and related issues

Le Billon has contributed to multiple publication venues, with frequent articles appearing in:

The Extractive Industries and Society
Marine Policy
Frontiers in Marine Science
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Energy Research & Social Science

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Le Billon includes:

"Environmental and land defenders: Global patterns and determinants of repression," 2020, Global Environmental Change
"Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
"Oil, fisheries and coastal communities: A review of impacts on the environment, livelihoods, space and governance," 2021, Energy Research & Social Science
"Climate change and fossil fuel production cuts: assessing global supply-side constraints and policy implications," 2020, Climate Policy
"The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research," 2023, Environmental Politics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Le Billon include Raphael Deberdt, Dyhia Belhabib, Nathan Bennett, U. Rashid Sumaila, and Päivi Lujala. The collaboration counts with these researchers range from four to eleven joint publications.

Best Publications

The political ecology of war: natural resources and armed conflicts

Philippe Le Billon

2359
Citations
Fuelling War: Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts

Philippe Le Billon

478
Citations
Angola's political economy of war: The role of oil and diamonds, 1975–2000

Philippe le Billon

466
Citations
Towards a sustainable and equitable blue economy

Nathan J. Bennett;Nathan J. Bennett;Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor;Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor;Jessica Blythe;Jennifer J. Silver

449
Citations
Wars of Plunder: Conflicts, Profits and the Politics of Resources

Philippe Le Billon

419
Citations
Diamond Wars? Conflict Diamonds and Geographies of Resource Wars

Philippe Le Billon

385
Citations
The Political Ecology of Transition in Cambodia 1989–1999: War, Peace and Forest Exploitation

Philippe Le Billon

369
Citations
Why do some communities resist mining projects while others do not

Marta Conde;Philippe Le Billon

354
Citations
Buying peace or fuelling war: the role of corruption in armed conflicts

Philippe Le Billon

309
Citations
Movements shaping climate futures: A systematic mapping of protests against fossil fuel and low-carbon energy projects

Leah Temper;Sofia Avila;Daniela Del Bene;Jennifer Gobby

261
Citations
The Geopolitical economy of ‘resource wars’

Philippe Le Billon

249
Citations
Extractive industries and poverty: A review of recent findings and linkage mechanisms

Jonathan Gamu;Philippe Le Billon;Samuel Spiegel

249
Citations
Peace in the wake of disaster? Secessionist conflicts and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

Philippe Le Billon;Arno Waizenegger

232
Citations
Oil, fisheries and coastal communities: A review of impacts on the environment, livelihoods, space and governance

Nathan Andrews;Nathan J. Bennett;Philippe Le Billon;Stephanie J. Green

190
Citations
Conflict in Africa : The Cost of Peaceful Behaviour

Tony Addison;Philippe Le Billon;S. Mansoob Murshed

186
Citations
Logging in Muddy Waters: The Politics of Forest Exploitation in Cambodia

Philippe Le Billon

172
Citations
Corruption, Reconstruction and Oil Governance in Iraq

Philippe Le Billon

165
Citations
Fatal Transactions: Conflict Diamonds and the (Anti)Terrorist Consumer

Philippe Le Billon

160
Citations
Violence and space: An introduction to the geographies of violence

Simon Springer;Philippe Le Billon

160
Citations
From Free Oil to 'Freedom Oil': Terrorism, War and US Geopolitics in the Persian Gulf

Philippe Le Billon;Fouad El Khatib

156
Citations
Corrupting Peace? Peacebuilding and Post-conflict Corruption

Philippe Le Billon

151
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

U. Rashid Sumaila University of British Columbia

Nathan J. Bennett University of British Columbia

Dirk Zeller University of Western Australia

Marcello M. Veiga University of British Columbia

Patrick Christie University of Washington

Phil Hubbard King's College London

Rosaleen Duffy University of Sheffield

External Links

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