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Area Expansion Versus Effective and Equitable Management in International Marine Protected Areas Goals and Targets
(Marine Policy, 2019)This paper draws on the published literature on marine protected areas (MPAs) and marine protected areas targets to argue that the MPA target (14.5) will dominate in the pursuit, measurement, and evaluation of the much ... -
“As Far as Possible and as Appropriate”: Implementing the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
(Conservation Letters, 2016)Past shortfalls to meet global biodiversity targets have simultaneously prompted questions about the relevance of global environmental conventions, and sparked renewed ambition, for example, in the form of the Aichi ... -
Assembling Global Conservation Governance
(Geoforum, 2019)As the configuration of global environmental governance has become more complex over the past fifty years, numerous scholars have underscored the importance of understanding the transnational networks of public, private ... -
Blue Economy and Competing Discourses in International Oceans Governance
(Journal of Environment and Development, 2015)In this article, we track a relatively new term in global environmental governance: “blue economy.” Analyzing preparatory documentation and data collected at the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (i.e., Rioþ20), ... -
Boundary Objects and Global Consensus: Scalar Narratives of Marine Conservation in the Convention on Biological Diversity
(Global Environmental Politics, 2014)The global number of marine protected areas (MPAs) has increased dramatically in recent years, resulting in a ªvefold increase in area covered since 2003.1 Like terrestrial protected areas, MPAs are deªned by the International ... -
Business, Biodiversity and New 'Fields' of Conservation: The World Conservation Congress and the Renegotiation of Organisational Order
(Conservation and Society, 2010)Biodiversity conservation, in practise, is defined through the institutionalised association of individuals, organisations, institutions, bodies of knowledge and interests. Events like the World Conservation Congress (WCC) ... -
Capturing the Personal in Politics: Ethnographies of Global Environmental Governance
(Global Environmental Politics, 2014)In writing about Barack Obama’s efforts to entice Republicans into ending US Congressional gridlock, news columnist John Avalon wrote, “All politics is personal and at the end of the day, in a representative democracy, ... -
Chapter Two: Orchestrating Nature: Ethnographies of Nature Inc.
(Orchestrating Nature, 2014)In this chapter we combine the theoretical lens of virtualism with the empirical object of a new multilateral project (TEEB) and the physical site and instance of the COP10 to explore how processes of performance, ... -
Charted Waters? Tracking the Production of Conservation Territories on the High Seas
(International Social Science Journal, 2018)From bleached reefs to declining fish stocks and plastic garbage patches, recent research and news headlines suggest that the oceans are in a state of crisis. The crisis is often explained using the “overuse narrative” of ... -
Climate Change Impacts, Conservation and Protected Values: Understanding Promotion, Ambivalence and Resistance to Policy Change at the World Conservation Congress
(Conservation and Society, 2010)The impacts of climate change imply substantive changes to current conservation policy frameworks. Debating and formulating the details of these changes was central to the agenda of the Fourth World Conservation Congress ... -
Collaborative Event Ethnography: Conservation and Development Trade-offs at the Fourth World Conservation Congress
(Conservation and Society, 2010)Ideas about conservation have shifted dramatically over the last century. From an early focus on state-run parks and protected areas, to the role of local communities and markets in conservation, to engaging the private ... -
Collaborative Event Ethnography: Between Structural Power and Empirical Nuance?
(Global Environmental Politics, 2014)Collaborative event ethnography (CEE) is a powerful new methodological tool to study global environmental politics and governance in practice. The authors of the various articles in this special issue have done much to ... -
Corridors of Power: Assembling US Environmental Foreign Aid
(Antipode, 2018)Using the US Agency for International Development’s environmental program in Madagascar as a lens, I offer a historically grounded, relational, and multi-sited methodology for understanding the transnational processes that ... -
Doing Strong Collaborative Fieldwork In Human Geography
(Geographical Review, 2019)Although increasingly common in the academy, collaboration is not yet the norm in human geography. Drawing on insights from ten years of experience with collaborative event ethnography (CEE), we argue that strong approaches ... -
Enclosing the Global Commons: The Convention on Biological Diversity and Green Grabbing
(The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2012)‘Green grabs,’ or the expropriation of land or resources for environmental purposes, constitute an important component of the current global land grab explosion. We argue that international environmental institutions are ... -
Environmental Governance in Motion: Practices of Assemblage and the Political Performativity of Economistic Conservation
(World Development, 2019)This article critically explores the dynamic, constitutive processes that animate economistic conservation and sustainable development as an expression of governance-beyond-the-state. I focus attention on governance in ... -
Everyone's Solution? Defining and Redefining Protected Areas at the Convention on Biological Diversity
(Conservation and Society, 2014)For decades, conservationists have remained steadfastly committed to protected areas (PAs) as the best means to conserve biodiversity. Using Collaborative Event Ethnography of the 10th meeting of the Conference of the ... -
Fields of green: Corporate sustainability and the production of economistic environmental governance
(Environment and Planning A, 2017)This article critically examines the production of economistic fields of environmental governance in the context of global summits like Rioþ20. It focuses on the constitutive work performed by diverse actors in extending ... -
Fuel for the Fire: Biofuels and the Problem of Translation at the Tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
(Global Environmental Politics, 2014)Since their emergence as a major global concern in the early 2000s, biofuels have proven to be complex, multifaceted, and problematic objects to govern.1 The Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) decision on “Biofuels ... -
Gatekeepers and Keymasters: Dynamic Relationships of Access in Geographical Fieldwork
(The Geographical Review, 2006)This article contributes to ii recent and growing body of literature exploring the nature of fieldwork in human geography. Specifically, we critically examine the role of gatekeepers in providing access to “the field,” ...