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The article introduces the concept of racialized land tenure to illuminate how colonial land governance systems in Brazil continue to shape dispossession and ecological degradation in post-colonial contexts. Drawing from historical and ethnographic res…

Under the intertwined environmental crises of capitalist urbanization, we argue that policies on housing and disaster are merging in order to (further) conceal widespread socio-ecological degradation and disaster risk creation. Following two extensive …

Drawing on ethnographic research and oral histories, the article highlights how Ciulaku women play a pivotal role in preserving and transmitting collective memories of displacement. These memories, often rooted in personal and intergenerational trauma,…

Widespread recognition of the effectiveness of Indigenous land stewardship has largely been met by attempts to instrumentalize Indigenous environmental governance in the service of global conservation goals. Instead, and in response to calls to decolon…

Sensibilisation is a French term often translated to “awareness raising” but which encompasses a broader set of practices and philosophies intended to foster behavior change among target audiences. For those working on biodiversity conservation, sensib…

Green Infrastructure (GI) connects across a city’s urban fabric and exhibits multiple meanings. It inevitably ties to questions about environmental justice. In South Africa, the historical legacy of colonialism and apartheid has left deep scars and the…

Natural capital approaches to mitigating the impacts of construction projects, in which environmental harms and mitigations are calculated and then traded, have become dominant features of contemporary conservation. They are subject to considerable cri…

In this article, we examine how political ecology can benefit from greater engagement with green criminology’s focus on harms. We do so by developing a harms-based political ecology, which is a useful lens through which to analyze global environmental …

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A vast body of literature has established how armed conflicts and wars are harmful to the environment, and it is generally assumed that peace should be beneficial to it. This article investigates the understudied environmental and energy discourse and …

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Degrowth, a leading paradigm addressing our socio-ecological crisis, criticizes the highly destructive animal factory-farming industry. However, it does not challenge the commodification of sentient beings and the underlying system that perpetuates the…

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The Indian Sundarbans, the world’s largest littoral mangrove stretch, draws attention in scientific discourses, being an ecosystem vulnerable to global climate change and a biodiversity hotspot governed under institutionalized protected area management…

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Este artículo contribuye a las discusiones sobre la dimensión política del enfoque de los sistemas socioecológicos (SSE) y a la apertura transdisciplinar de la ecología política (EP), a partir de una articulación con otros conocimientos disciplinares y…

What is sustainable – and who gets to decide what sustainability is – remains a central question for political ecologists. Scholars have explained and critiqued specific iterations, as well as proposed versions of what they believe sustainability ought…

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Tū Łídlīni (Ross River) is a Kaska Dena village nestled at the confluence of the Ross and Pelly Rivers, in so-called Yukon, Canada. 70 km north of Tū Łídlīni, the lead-zinc Faro Mine was developed illegally on unceded Kaska traditional territory in 196…

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