A5023899952- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Sustainability in Higher Education
- Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media
- Food Chemistry and Fat Analysis
- International Development and Aid
- Forest Management and Policy
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- American Environmental and Regional History
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Media Influence and Health
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Management and Organizational Studies
University of York
2023-2025
Sustainability Institute
2025
University of Sheffield
2021-2022
University of Manchester
2018-2021
Center for Global Development
2016-2018
Multiple proposals for transforming biodiversity conservation have been put forward, yet critical exploration of how transformative change is conceptualised in this context lacking. Drawing on transformations to sustainability scholarship, we review recent conservation, considering the suggested goals and means transformation. We outline crucial role social scientific inquiry by highlighting two core contributions. First, science an analytical device that politicises pluralises debates...
Given growing human influence on the earth system's functioning, caring for nature has never been this critical. However, whether economic interests or ‘wilderness’ preservation, attempts to save have grounded a Western scientific philosophy of separating it from people's ways living, especially through ‘protected areas'. Under banner ‘convivial conservation', which advocates socio-ecological justice and structural transformations in global system, an alternative idea called ‘promoted areas’...
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...
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing and travel restrictions have been introduced to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus (hereinafter Covid). In many countries Global South, NPIs are affecting rural livelihoods, but in-depth empirical data on these impacts limited. We traced differentiated Covid throughout start pandemic May July 2020. conducted qualitative weekly phone interviews (n = 441) with 92 panelists from nine contrasting communities across Mozambique...
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include a goal focusing on terrestrial biodiversity conservation: SDG 15, dubbed Life land. There has been little critical social-science analysis of how its targets and indicators understand conservation. This article contributes to closing this gap by analysing in detail 15 affiliated progress reports. Contravening the SDGs’ stated objective leaving no one behind, paper shows that ignores vital connections between human nonhuman...
Abstract Voluntary sustainability standards (VSSs) in global production networks (GPNs) have grown significantly prominence. Existing research largely assumed that VSSs create linear upgrading outcomes for all GPN actors and has studied from the point of adoption GPNs, rather than a broader range stages their lifecycle. To address these limitations, building on literature around power agency we develop constellation priorities (CoP) model to unpack diverse often diverging boardroom (Northern...
Convivial conservation has been put forward as a radical alternative to transform prevailing mainstream approaches that aim address global concerns of biodiversity loss and extinction. This special issue includes contributions from diverse disciplinary geographical perspectives which critically examine convivial conservation's potential in theory practice explore both possibilities challenges for the approach's transformative ambitions. introduction focuses on three issues highlight critical...
Abstract The environmental polycrisis, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and water scarcity, touches down in agricultural global production networks (GPNs) through different interactions. Drawing on economic geography critical systems thinking, we propose a novel conceptualization to trace interactions of influence, disruption, synergy, their implications for GPNs, GPN actors, the risks they face. Through empirical material from horticulture South Africa Kenya cocoa Nicaragua,...
In their article 'Towards convivial conservation' (2019), Büscher and Fletcher propose a vision for conservation which partly builds on Ivan Illich's 1973 book Tools conviviality. Given growing chorus of voices calling decolonizing to address the ramifications racialized mindsets biases,this asks: what role could conviviality play in envisioning alternative, ideas, particularly Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15? The first reflects case conservation. It then conducts an in-depth analysis...
Abstract The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) aspire to be integrated and indivisible, balance the three dimensions of sustainable development transform our world by going beyond previously agreed language. Focusing on decoloniality equity, we explore whether these aspirations are met in analysing five goals, their targets indicators interlinking especially economy–ecology spheres: SDGs 8 (economic growth), 9 (industry innovation), 12 (sustainable production...
How much do misleading representations matter? This article examines carefully constructed narratives of engagement in 'sustainable' cocoa production initiatives, which fail to mention one the actual key drivers: need shore up long term an embattled sector. Consequently, also downplay for systemic change, reproducing power asymmetries they claim change. The research seeks establish what degree public-facing communication differs from underlying priorities terms forefronting altruism over...
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce the transmission of Covid-19 had different repercussions for domestic, regional and global value chains, but empirical data are sparse on specific dynamics, particularly their implications value-chain stakeholders' local livelihoods. Through research including weekly phone interviews (n = 273 from May July 2020) with panellists in six Mozambican communities, our traced firstly how baobab charcoal chains were affected by Covid NPIs, terms...
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This article shares the author’s reflections on what decolonial cracks for recreating UK universities as sustainable pluriversities emerge from encounters and engagement in three arts–research co-productions relating to sustainability justice: a training process led by professional storyteller converting political-ecology research into short, spoken ten-minute stories, co-production of visual summaries role-playing game value chains, collaboration producing an immersive audiovisual...
Review of: Peter Coates, Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home. London: Reaktion Books, 2023. 336 pp. 36 illus., 10 in colour. £16.99 (hb).
Stories are vital in making sense of our lives – and research. Consequently, 12 researchers from the University Sheffield underwent a three-month training process September to November 2019 learn how shape their research experiences into accessible, ten-minute, spoken stories. This culminated storytelling evening as part Economic Social Research Council’s Festival Science, at which different disciplines discussed various nature–society dynamics diverse field sites Global South. By reflecting...