A5013128967- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Forest Management and Policy
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- African studies and sociopolitical issues
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Mining and Resource Management
- Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Global and Cross-Cultural Management
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Environmental Conservation and Management
Okanagan University College
2023-2024
University of British Columbia
2023-2024
University for Peace
2023
American University
2023
University of Calgary
2020-2021
University of Sheffield
2018-2019
SOAS University of London
2016-2017
University of London
2016-2017
King's College London
2015-2017
University of Ibadan
2010-2015
Abstract Recent IPCC assessments highlight a key role for large‐scale carbon removal in meeting the objectives of Paris Agreement. This focus on removal, also referred to as negative emissions, is suggestive novel opportunities, risks, and challenges addressing climate change, but tends build narrow techno‐economic framings that characterize integrated assessment modeling. While discussion emissions bears important parallels wider older literature sequestration sinks, this earlier...
The natural world is built on the foundations of co-existence. Here, gnus, antelopes, flamingos, and other animals coexist in Ngorongoro Crater Tanzania.The recent antiracist movement the...
This paper explores the connections between financialisation in green economy and material commodification processes that underpin this economy. It argues these are important can be usefully conceived terms of spaces mutuality. These mutuality direct attention to value creation at level real environmental assets. That appear thin, sluggish, fractured, hybridised or stalled practice invites new modes analytical engagement. One mode analysing emergent projects is emphasise their status as...
At this time of rapid global environmental change and demands for sweeping societal transformation, we call greater scrutiny the persistence particular policies ideas. In Special Section focus on REDD+, which long has enjoyed remarkable support in spite poor outcomes widespread criticisms. The central policy proposition that is, forest-based emissions reduction through market-based instruments non-market means, are now carried forth under new banner Natural Climate Solutions. We examine...
Contemporary and market-based conservation policies, constructed as rational, neutral apolitical, are being pursued around the world in aim of staving off multiple, unfolding overlapping environmental crises. However, substantial body research that examines dominance neoliberal policies has paid relatively little attention to how colonial legacies interact with these contemporary enacted Global South. It is only recently critical scholars have begun demonstrate ways increase their risk...
How natural and cultural forces shaping tropical forested landscapes are conceptualised is of vital importance to Anthropocene debates. We examine two concepts: disturbance landscape domestication. From the perspective disturbance, humans – whether ancient or modern a priori negative for forests, outside alien nature. this view, planetary scale aggregation disturbance. A more just vision accepting anthropogenic influence on biodiversity, would combine ‘disturbance’ with other concepts that...
This article argues that the governance of wildfire risk in Canada is increasingly oriented toward through a security apparatus. As climate change complicates "problems" fast-expanding wildland–urban interface areas, fire managers and other actors seek shift fire-permitting, risk-based management style, even as balance between private public responsibility for protection gets renegotiated. approach, typified by FireSmart, characterized gradual, geographically uneven from state-centered...
This paper analyses the design and implementation of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation Degradation, conserving enhancing forest carbon stocks, sustainably managing forests (REDD+) in West African region, an important global biodiversity area. Drawing on in-depth interviews, analysis policy documents observation everyday activities, we sought to understand how REDD+ has been designed implemented Nigeria Ghana. We draw political ecology examine how, why takes form it does these countries....
SUMMARY This paper investigates the dimensions of justice in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation plus enhancement carbon stock (REDD+) West Africa. By paying explicit attention to transparency, equity legitimacy (TEL) Nigeria Ghana, examines considerations REDD+ implementation with a focus on tenure. We draw analysis policy documents interviews stakeholders both countries. Our results show that commitment pursuit cases is limited when examined through elements TEL....
GENERAL COMMENTARY article Front. Conserv. Sci., 13 May 2021Sec. Global Biodiversity Threats https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2021.666910
Models increasingly pervade conservation and development practice – model policies, countries, regions, states, projects, villages, communities so on. These are idealized, bounded, miniature entities that seek to demonstrate the efficacy of a more substantive policy, scheme or intervention. Although political ecologists critical scholars have analyzed models in specific interventions, there has been relatively little reflection on common logics central generally. Drawing literature in-depth...
Public engagement continues to be central wider efforts address climate change. This study contributes public debates by investigating with change among an often overlooked group, the corporate middle class in Africa’s second largest megacity, Lagos. Combining survey and interviews, I focus analysis on three aspects: awareness, knowledge concern; role of scientific social frames shaping general attitude; spatial attribution causes consequences. The reveals a universal awareness high concern...
The novelty claims in carbon forestry often obscure the complex histories and colonial entanglements of forest socioecologies. This paper argues that conditions possibility 'Nigeria's last rainforest' are tightly linked to uneven production forests across Southern Nigeria. Drawing on archival research, ethnographic fieldwork analysis program documents academic literature, unsettles Nigeria's by demonstrating material continuity between forestry. Focusing development Nigeria under British...
Struggles of communities for rights and control over forests continue despite the rhetoric about decentralisation. Nuesiri suggests that a failing decentralised forest management stems from its pure utopian vision attracts both loyalty opposition. I argue such framing is as novel it problematic. A frame unhelpfully purifies. It assumes often declared proponents decentralisation were thoroughly ambitious ‘creating space communities’. Explanations suggesting state selectively shares power risk...
This article argues that Yoruba proverbs are an essential source of popular wisdom on socio-environmental practices accessible through creative reconstruction and interpretation their historical contexts. Learning from the everyday knowledge accumulated ordinary people holds significant promise at a time unprecedented crisis widespread calls for transformative change across scales. Drawing collection by Oyekan Owomoyela, broader oral literature, culture cross-disciplinary selection academic...
This article examines the mobilization of local communities within spaces conservation-extraction convergence in an African context. We draw on ethnographic research from Cross River area Nigeria to trace trajectory assemblage as produced through recent intensification state-led capitalist development that builds a history colonial and postcolonial resource regulation. Our analysis suggests 'spaces' conservation extraction should be understood not only terms their spatiality internal logic...
This paper analyses the design and implementation of REDD+ in West African region, an important global biodiversity area. Drawing on in-depth interviews, analysis policy documents observation everyday activities, we sought to understand how has been designed implemented Nigeria Ghana. We draw tools from political ecology examine how, why takes form it does these countries. focus three key dimensions that emerged as strong areas common emphasis our case studies -- capacity building, carbon...