A5007137764- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Forest Management and Policy
- Mining and Resource Management
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- International Development and Aid
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Marxism and Critical Theory
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
University of Coimbra
2020-2025
University of Puerto Rico System
2017-2024
University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras
2016-2022
El Colegio de México
2021
Erasmus University Rotterdam
2020
Policy Analysis (United States)
2010-2018
Indiana University Bloomington
2010-2018
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2013-2014
Department of Natural and Environmental Resources
2013
This article elaborates on the notion of "decarbonisation by dispossession" in order to shed light contradictory character capital-driven energy transitions. First, we suggest conceptualising "decarbonisation" as a "socio-ecological fix" intersecting, climate-induced crises accumulation and hegemony, aimed at saving capital rather than planet. Second, reflecting mineral intensity "low carbon" technologies such industrial-scale solar wind farms, approach ongoing transitions form...
Hurricane Maria has had devastating impacts in Puerto Rico. Yet this catastrophe not been felt equally by all. The vulnerability to and ability recover from hurricanes other disasters are directly shaped existing socioeconomic racial inequalities. situation post-Maria Rico labeled a clear case of environmental injustice. This article documents the hurricane's nexus with justice (EJ). It discusses EJ related toxic pollution, water, energy, food, connects these intersect multiple layers...
Abstract What is the relationship between social movements and polycentric governance? The concept of polycentricity has been at center recent debates in environmental governance. While most this work analyzed arrangements relation to collaborative adaptive governance, some have recently focused on how political conflicts shape these arrangements. In paper we build through Luther Gerlach's forgotten framework undertake task politicizing polycentricity. This entails expanding analytical focus...
This paper compares lessons drawn from five case studies of large scale governance common-pool resources: management forests in Indonesia, the Great Barrier Reef Australia, Rhine River western Europe, Ozone layer (i.e. Montreal Protocol), and Atlantic Bluefin Tuna International Convention on Conservation Tuna). The goal is to assess applicability Ostrom’s design principles for sustainable resource systems, as well examine other important variables that may determine success systems. While we...
Political ecologists have developed scathing analyses of capitalism's tendency for enclosure and dispossession the commons. In this context commons are analyzed as a force to resist neo-liberalism, main site conflict over dispossession, source alternatives capitalism. paper we elaborate view material symbolic terrain where performative re-articulation common(s) senses can potentially enact counter-hegemonic socio-ecological configurations. Expressly drawing on concepts hegemony,...
In this paper we propose an ‘undisciplinary’ meeting between Elinor Ostrom and Judith Butler, with the intent to broaden theory of commons by discussing it as a relational politics. We use Butler’s power problematize existing visions commons, shifting from Ostrom’s ‘bounded rationality’ concepts selves’ mutual vulnerability. To be bounded – opposed autonomous being implies (ambiguous) effect socio-power relations norms that are often beyond control. Thus, collective selves mutually...
Fleischman, F. D., K. Boenning, G. A. Garcia-Lopez, S. Mincey, M. Schmitt-Harsh, Daedlow, Lopez, X. Basurto, B. Fischer, and E. Ostrom. 2010. Disturbance, response, persistence in self-organized forested communities: analysis of robustness resilience five communities southern Indiana. Ecology Society 15(4): 9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03512-150409
Over the past few years, studies in political ecology and environmental justice have been increasingly connecting commons social movements empirically, giving shape to a new, distinctive body of research on movements. In our review, we first organize synthesize empirical lessons from this literature. We then highlight recent theoretical efforts made by scholars both bridge transcend gap between theory movement theory. As illustrate, can help create strengthen institutions discourses, as well...
In this paper, we put forward the notion of “energy sovereignty from below” to reflect on visions and practices territorial movements mobilizing around corporate energy projects for reclaiming control over definition, modalities, scales a just socioecological transition. Based comparative engagement with cases Puerto Rico Catalonia, first, explore how organize challenge undesired impacts projects, paying specific attention their struggles are grounded in defense land/territory claims against...
Cockburn, J., M. Schoon, G. Cundill, C. Robinson, J. A. Aburto, S. Alexander, Baggio, Barnaud, Chapman, Garcia Llorente, García-López, R. Hill, Ifejika Speranza, Lee, L. Meek, E. Rosenberg, Schultz, and Thondhlana. 2020. Understanding the context of multifaceted collaborations for social-ecological sustainability: a methodology cross-case analysis. Ecology Society 25(3):7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11527-250307
While Common Pool Resource (CPR) theory has been widely applied to forestry, there are few examples of using the study large-scale governance. In this paper we test applicability CPR understanding forest governance and outcomes in Indonesia between 1965 2012. contains one world’s largest tropical forests, experienced rapid deforestation during time frame, with cover dropping from close 85% less than 50%. Using a mixture within case comparison process tracing methods, identify key variables...
The increasing scale and interconnection of many environmental challenges – from climate change to land use has resulted in the need collaborate across borders boundaries all types. Traditional centralized, top-down sectoral approaches governance single-issue areas or species within social-ecological systems often have limited potential alleviate issues that go beyond their jurisdiction. As a result, collaborative come forefront. A great deal past research examined conditions under which...
This paper analyzes the local-level impacts of cross-scale linkages in Mexican community forestry by evaluating operation four inter-community forest associations (FAs). Based on one year fieldwork Durango, Mexico, focuses two inter-related issues: (1) services that each association provides to their member communities and how they impact management development communities' enterprises, (2) differences between top-down bottom-up FAs. The findings show FAs, as a form linkage, can be crucial...
Multi-level collective actions and institutions play an important role in natural resource governance rural development; however, the origins transformations of these have only recently begun to receive systematic research attention. To address this gap, we trace analyse historical processes driving formation change Mexican inter-community forestry associations over time, drawing on survey data in-depth case studies from two states, contextualised within national international...
Over the last decade, there has been an expansion of scholarly and activist engagement with commons. This interest corresponds to a growing quest for alternatives capitalism in view ongoing socio- ecological crises. As neoliberal intensifies enclosure commons, local actions reclaim old commons invent new ones counter these processes are also on rise. However, diverse conceptions pitfalls their reproduction mobilizing this vocabulary dominant individualistic culture. Our understanding remains...