A5053038582- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Mining and Resource Management
- Political Economy and Marxism
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Forest Management and Policy
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- State Capitalism and Financial Governance
- Bioeconomy and Sustainability Development
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
University of British Columbia
2016-2025
University for Peace
2023
American University
2023
East Asian Observatory
2021-2022
University of Victoria
2013-2016
Concordia University
2016
University of Washington
2012
The concept of the Anthropocene is creating new openings around question how humans ought to intervene in environment. In this article, we address one arena which prompting a sea change: conservation. path emerging mainstream conservation is, argue, neoliberal and postnatural. We propose an alternative for multispecies abundance. By abundance mean more diverse autonomous forms life ways living together. considering enact worlds, take inspiration from Indigenous peasant movements across globe...
Across the world, governments, NGOs, scientists, policy-makers, and resource managers are learning to speak in language of ecosystem services. It is a concept that seems belong what many geographers call neoliberal-style environmental policies. However, policies practices around service deviate considerably from neoliberal doctrine. Our primary aim open up space for informed conversation about services geography by exploring internal heterogeneity tensions within world In describing these...
Mainstream environmentalism and critical scholarship are abuzz with the promise perils (respectively) of what we call for-profit biodiversity conservation: attempts to make conserving biodiverse ecosystems profitable large-scale investment. But extent has private capital been harnessed market forces enrolled in a thoroughly remade conservation? In this article examine size, scope, character international conservation. Despite exploding rhetoric around environmental markets over last two...
When so many facets of nonhuman life are commodified daily with little challenge, this paper looks to shed light on what is objectionable about commodifying life. As a contribution in direction, we undertake comparative examination the formation two different but equally lively, and international, commodities: Exotic pets ecosystem carbon. In first set out understand characteristics matter production commodity. We argue that particular mode value-generating predominates each commodity...
Abstract Nancy Fraser's recent book, Cannibal Capitalism , breathes new life into the eco‐Marxist concept of ecological contradiction, arguing capitalism destroys its own conditions possibility like a serpent eating tail. thesis appears to be playing out in British Columbia forests, where industry is closing mills and cutting jobs, decrying an increasingly limited “fibre basket”. But amid ecosystem degradation industrial forestry has wrought over decades, including impacts now‐endangered...
How do nonhuman individuals and communities come to bear capitalist value or not in contemporary social relations? The "or not" of the question is crucial. This because our analytical approach, drawing from feminist postcolonial theorizing, one that keeps us focused on value's necessary others, is, bodies/communities designated as waste even superfluous. Our aim attend role difference hierarchies play production value. Accordingly, we present a typology five orientations – relational,...
Abstract In 2010 world governments agreed to eliminate, phase out or reform incentives that harm biodiversity by 2020. Yet few have even identified such incentives, never mind taking action on them. While some subsidies are well studied, as in fisheries and fossil fuel production, there is an urgent need for the conservation community study potential effects a broader array of biodiversity. addition, we better understanding who benefits from these subsidies. We term this pursuit ‘subsidy...
Abstract Finance is a precondition for many of the activities that harm ecosystems, but how to address this underlying driver biodiversity loss remains topic debate. This paper reviews Task Force on Nature‐Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), corporate‐led effort aims identify changes may create financial risks companies and investors. approach also promoted as strategy managing impact business biodiversity, with assumption risk disclosure will more effectively price biodiversity‐harming...
Geographers and others have written many words about British Columbian environmental politics. Stories this place often revolve around conflicts between the government, forest industry, First Nations, environmentalists, battling it out to secure their vision of appropriate land use on ground. This paper examines a particularly heated conflict over in Great Bear Rainforest region, large tract temperate rainforest blanketing central north coasts Columbia. But essay takes different cut into...
Abstract Many caribou populations in Canada face extirpation despite dozens of provincial and federal legislative instruments designed to protect them. How are industrial developments that impact justified permitted governments' commitments protection? Toward an answer, this paper scrutinizes approval process for major projects Canada: environmental assessment (EA). We identify 65 EAs with potentially significant adverse impacts caribou—all but one were approved. The results show most...
In the midst of “sixth extinction” and declarations so-called Anthropocene, scientists conservationists are debating nature planetary limits. They also rethinking very goal conservation in a postnatural direction that is less oriented on saving pristine nature. To shed light this contemporary debate, paper looks back to examine three “circuits power knowledge” where biodiversity loss constituted as an ecological crisis with humanity its crosshairs later more flexible problem trade-offs. The...
The last decade has witnessed more changes in protected area systems Canada than any other. set aside doubled, and almost 7 percent of Canada's ecosystems are now compared with 3 1989. Several high‐profile reports have indicated a decline ecological integrity systems. Major legislation policy followed new National Parks Act, Marine Conservation Areas Agency Act revised national park's policy. paper describes these major their implications, provides understanding why they occurred suggests...
In economic geography and beyond, a call for attention to difference or multiplicity – of logics, subjects, geographies within capitalist relations is often interpreted as critique in the vein JK Gibson-Graham: explore capitalism’s alternatives, weaknesses ‘cracks fissures’. But there are feminist political economists whom outside capitalism source power; functions, accumulates reproduces itself through heterogeneity. this commentary, we focus on particular underused theorist who exemplifies...
This euphoria, he explains, is blind to its foundations: past and ongoing violence, tragedy, poverty, suffering-inequity that rife not only elsewhere, but also within the West's richest countries.In an announcement of Galeano's death in Buenos Aires Herald, quoted as having described himself "obsessed with remembering" a "land condemned amnesia." 2 Amnesia.If there singular trait describe An Ecomodernist Manifesto, this it.Amnesia.In two registers.First, amnesia about deeply uneven violent...
Abstract In the last half century runaway wildlife declines have been simultaneous with liberal environmental state’s ascent. Despite proliferating legislation to arrest these declines, states fuelled economic growth at species’ expense. Through what tactics of power does state manage this contradiction between promising species protection while authorising their obliteration? Manipulations tense, futurity, temporal pace and scope are central. Responding plight endangered caribou in Canada,...
What do witches have to with the Anthropocene? More than one might think. In this article we undertake an in-depth book review of Silvia Federici's Caliban and Witch demonstrate how rise a division between productive reproductive realm, engendered in part through witch hunts, is founding condition Anthropocene.
Abstract How to understand the marriage between accumulation and conservation? The paper draws from extensive research into one value chain, advisor in New York City a wildlife‐friendly cattle business Kenya. Making this enterprise return money requires intimate relentless efforts transform wasteful conduct across range of institutions people; we focus on attempted production NGO economicus , homo plus bos Taurus . Drawing feminist postcolonial theorists capitalism, emphasise how green...
Ecofeminist Maria Mies describes capitalist social relations as an iceberg. The visible tip represents the formal economy, where value emerges from exploited waged labourers and circulation of monetized goods assets. Underneath waterline lurks rest iceberg, its size dwarfs tip. Here, points to a much larger world exploitation on which commodity production profit-making depend: women, colonies and, at very base, nature. bodies, places materials submerged, invisible iceberg supply unwaged...