[1] His 1997 book, Shadows in the Forest, has been described as the first to explain "in intricate and devastating detail" the role of Japanese corporations and trade in the politics of deforestation in Southeast Asia.
[3] Dauvergne's 2001 book, Loggers and Degradation in the Asia-Pacific, includes case studies from the Philippines, Indonesia, Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, and according to a review, the "account is at once both scholarly and muckraking.
"[4] Dauvergne went on to research the consequences of consumption for global environmental change, as in his 2005 book with Jennifer Clapp, Paths to a Green World.
He followed this with The Shadows of Consumption, which won the 2009 Gerald L. Young Book Award in Human Ecology.
[9] In 2017, he received the American Political Science Association's Michael Harrington Award for his book, Environmentalism of the Rich.