All Outputs (8)

Taking Back Control: Human Rights and Human Trafficking in the United Kingdom (2024)
Journal Article
Landman, T., Brewster, B., & Thornton, S. (2024). Taking Back Control: Human Rights and Human Trafficking in the United Kingdom. Societies, 14(4), Article 47. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc14040047

Modern slavery and human trafficking are well recognized as significant problems in need of legislation, policies, and actions from a wide range of stakeholders in the United Kingdom. The passage of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 is a hallmark of the... Read More about Taking Back Control: Human Rights and Human Trafficking in the United Kingdom.

Business and human rights (2024)
Book Chapter
Bianchi, L., & Landman, T. (2024). Business and human rights. In L. Matthews, L. Bianchi, & C. Ingram (Eds.), Concise Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (1-7). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800880344.ch01

The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective (2023)
Journal Article
Landman, T., & Smallman-Raynor, M. (2023). The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective. Political Geography, 106, Article 102957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102957

Since its appearance in Wuhan (China) in late December 2019, the geographical spread of COVID-19 and its constituent waves varied in pace and intensity around the world. Responses to the pandemic also varied across the world with high variation in ca... Read More about The politics of COVID-19: Government response in comparative perspective.

Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space (2021)
Journal Article
Boyd, D. S., Perrat, B., Li, X., Jackson, B., Landman, T., Ling, F., …Foody, G. M. (2021). Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8, Article 111. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00792-z

This article provides an example of the ways in which remote sensing, Earth observation, and machine learning can be deployed to provide the most up to date quantitative portrait of the South Asian ‘Brick Belt’, with a view to understanding the exten... Read More about Informing action for United Nations SDG target 8.7 and interdependent SDGs: Examining modern slavery from space.

The Modern Slavery (Victim Support) Bill: a cost-benefit analysis (2020)
Other
Nicholson, A., Schwarz, K., Landman, T., & Griffith, A. (2020). The Modern Slavery (Victim Support) Bill: a cost-benefit analysis. Nottingham

This report provides an analysis of the costs and benefits of extending support to adult conclusive victims of human trafficking in England and Wales for 12 months after exiting the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), the UK’s identification and suppo... Read More about The Modern Slavery (Victim Support) Bill: a cost-benefit analysis.

Globalization and Modern Slavery (2019)
Journal Article
Landman, T., & Silverman, B. W. (2019). Globalization and Modern Slavery. Politics and Governance, 7(4), 275-290. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v7i4.2233

This article presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the relationship between different dimensions of globalization and modern slavery. It argues that both the economic and political dimensions of globalization are strongly associated with... Read More about Globalization and Modern Slavery.

Democracy and human rights: concepts, measures, and relationships (2018)
Journal Article
Landman, T. (2018). Democracy and human rights: concepts, measures, and relationships. Politics and Governance, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i1.1186

The empirical literature on democracy and human rights has made great strides over the last 30 years in explaining (1) the variation in the transition to, consolidation of, and quality of democracy; (2) the proliferation and effectiveness of human ri... Read More about Democracy and human rights: concepts, measures, and relationships.

Good neighbours matter: economic geography and the diffusion of human rights (2018)
Journal Article
Edwards, T. H., Kernohan, D., Landman, T., & Nessa, A. (2018). Good neighbours matter: economic geography and the diffusion of human rights. Spatial Economic Analysis, 13(3), 319-337. https://doi.org/10.1080/17421772.2018.1412087

© 2018, © 2018 Regional Studies Association. Using multi-country panel data, this paper investigates the geopolitical and economic aspects of human rights performance. Human rights performance depends on the relative levels of economic development an... Read More about Good neighbours matter: economic geography and the diffusion of human rights.