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Dr BETHANY JACKSON's Outputs (33)

China's solar dominance - Worker Rights in the Pursuit of a Just Transition (2025)
Journal Article
Jackson, B., & Burcu, O. (in press). China's solar dominance - Worker Rights in the Pursuit of a Just Transition. Business and Human Rights Journal,

This article examines the intersection between forced labour, supply chains risks, and environmental, social and governance concerns that pose a threat to the 'Just Transition'. It addresses how states, businesses, and other stakeholders drive or fai... Read More about China's solar dominance - Worker Rights in the Pursuit of a Just Transition.

The illusion of social improvements: A case study of the role of Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) in fairwashing the UK Nephrops fishery (2025)
Journal Article
Decker Sparks, J. L., Somers, N., Williams, C., O'Brien, M., & Jackson, B. (2025). The illusion of social improvements: A case study of the role of Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) in fairwashing the UK Nephrops fishery. Marine Policy, 175, Article 106629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106629

Fishery improvement projects (FIPs) are attempting to manage the labor dimensions of social responsibility through non-binding mechanisms that directly contradict the tenets of worker-centered approaches. Using the UK Nephrops FIP as a case study, we... Read More about The illusion of social improvements: A case study of the role of Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) in fairwashing the UK Nephrops fishery.

Triple Threats: Co-ordinated and collective actions to address health, work and climate concerns (2025)
Report
Ahmed, S., Ayangunna, R., Barrow, J., Jackson, B., Ojo, T., Ojo, K., Parker, P., West, P., & Wright, N. (2025). Triple Threats: Co-ordinated and collective actions to address health, work and climate concerns. https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/Triple_Threats_Co-ordinated_and_collective_actions_to_address_health_work_and_climate_concerns/28315241: Rights Lab Survivor Research Advisory Board, University of Nottingham

The paper explores three priority threats upon health and work, resulting from climate change identified through a series of collaborative workshops with lived experience survivors of modern slavery. Areas highlighted which require collaborative acti... Read More about Triple Threats: Co-ordinated and collective actions to address health, work and climate concerns.

Utility of Earth Observation data in mapping post-disaster impact: A case of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas (2025)
Journal Article
Ozigis, M., Ogundipe, O., Valman, S. J., Decker Sparks, J. L., McCabe, H., Yore, R., & Jackson, B. (2025). Utility of Earth Observation data in mapping post-disaster impact: A case of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 37, Article 101466. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2025.101466

Earth Observation (EO) has a history of being used to support responses to disasters. Here, we present an assessment of socio-economic and environmental risk from Hurricane Dorian (September 2019) to populations across The Bahamas. Analyses of severa... Read More about Utility of Earth Observation data in mapping post-disaster impact: A case of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas.

Ethics in modern slavery research: Review of the current landscape and evaluation of research ethics appropriateness (2024)
Report
Asquith, W., Jackson, B., Hutchison, K., Stalford, H., & Bracaj, E. (2024). Ethics in modern slavery research: Review of the current landscape and evaluation of research ethics appropriateness. Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (MSPEC)


There are increasing calls for researchers, research organisations and funders active in the field of modern slavery and human trafficking (MSHT) research to reflect on their own practices of engagement and co-production. Momentum has built on this... Read More about Ethics in modern slavery research: Review of the current landscape and evaluation of research ethics appropriateness.

The future of decent work: Forecasting heat stress and the intersection of sustainable development challenges in India's brick kilns (2024)
Journal Article
Boyd, D. S., Jackson, B., Sparks, J. D., Foody, G. M., Girindran, R., Gosling, S., Trodd, Z., Bhriain, L. H., & Rodriguez-Huerta, E. (2024). The future of decent work: Forecasting heat stress and the intersection of sustainable development challenges in India's brick kilns. Sustainable Development, https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.3272

The impacts of climate change-induced heat stress on workers are most prevalent in sectors with decent work deficits and this requires consideration for sustainable development. This paper focuses on the informal economy of brick kilns in India, a se... Read More about The future of decent work: Forecasting heat stress and the intersection of sustainable development challenges in India's brick kilns.

Diets cannot be sustainable without ensuring the well-being of communities, workers and animals in food value chains (2024)
Journal Article
Tichenor Blackstone, N., Battaglia, K., Rodríguez-Huerta, E., Bell, B. M., Decker Sparks, J. L., Cash, S. B., Conrad, Z., Nikkhah, A., Jackson, B., Matteson, J., Gao, S., Fuller, K., Zhang, F. F., & Webb, P. (2024). Diets cannot be sustainable without ensuring the well-being of communities, workers and animals in food value chains. Nature Food, 5(10), 818–824. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01048-0

The social dimension of sustainable diets, which addresses the impacts of food value chains on people, animals and communities, is under-represented in the food systems field. We present a definition of the social dimension of sustainable diets, clar... Read More about Diets cannot be sustainable without ensuring the well-being of communities, workers and animals in food value chains.

Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Response to the UK International Development White Paper: Call for Evidence (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) (2023)
Report
Jackson, B., Bosatta, L., & Schwarz, K. (2023). Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Response to the UK International Development White Paper: Call for Evidence (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office). Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (UK)

Submission to the UK Government call for evidence (led by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) International Development White Paper, September 2023. Response to questions submitted by the Rights Lab, University of Nottingham. Responses... Read More about Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Response to the UK International Development White Paper: Call for Evidence (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office).

Climate change, migration and human trafficking: Assessing the impact of climate change, migration and human trafficking risks for populations in the Bangladesh and India Sundarbans (2023)
Report
Jackson, B. (2023). Climate change, migration and human trafficking: Assessing the impact of climate change, migration and human trafficking risks for populations in the Bangladesh and India Sundarbans. Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)

The Sundarbans region of Bangladesh and India face several climatic risk factors, and for communities in the area they can be compounded by social, economic, and political struggles. Primary data on the ‘human trafficking-environmental degradation-cl... Read More about Climate change, migration and human trafficking: Assessing the impact of climate change, migration and human trafficking risks for populations in the Bangladesh and India Sundarbans.

Forced labour risk is pervasive in the US land-based food supply (2023)
Journal Article
Blackstone, N. T., Rodríguez-Huerta, E., Battaglia, K., Jackson, B., Jackson, E., Benoit Norris, C., & Decker Sparks, J. L. (2023). Forced labour risk is pervasive in the US land-based food supply. Nature Food, 4(7), 596–606. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00794-x

Social risk assessments and case studies of labour conditions in food production primarily focus on specific subpopulations, regions and commodities. To date, research has not systematically assessed labour conditions against international standards... Read More about Forced labour risk is pervasive in the US land-based food supply.

Rights Lab Ecosystems and the Environment Programme Submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Jackson, B. Rights Lab Ecosystems and the Environment Programme Submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children. https://owncloud.unog.ch/s/kFQa8RmZP4mSGn9?path=%2F2)%20Other%20Stakeholders#pdfviewer

Rights Lab Ecosystems and the Environment Programme Submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children. May 2022.