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April 18, 2023
By Robert Fletcher.
Market-based conservation instruments’ continual “failing forward” exposes the naked emperor of an unsustainable capitalism. Post-capitalist degrowth is our only salvation.
January 10, 2023
By Bram Büscher and Rosaleen Duffy.
The big biodiversity conference in Montreal from 7-19 December was described as the event that will decide on the ‘fate of the entire living world’. Its outcome to protect 30% of the planet by 2030 is regarded by some as ‘historic’, but in reality promotes more business-as-usual. Have global environmental meetings reached the end of their usefulness? Or is hanging on to them worth it in the face of worsening environmental crises?
April 5, 2022
By Austin Miles.
The movement to conserve half of the Earth’s land and waters is gaining momentum. What kind of world would result if it succeeds?
January 18, 2022
By Stasja Koot and Robert Fletcher.
A critical look at two emerging forms of 'ethical' tourism aimed at big donors of conservation projects: philanthrotourism and environmentourism.
July 29, 2021
By Marek Kaczyński and Marta Ewa Romaneczko Documentary filmmaker Taylor Rees talks about her work on racism and environmental justice.
January 21, 2021
By Anne Degenhardt, Batsaikhan Abdul Mohseen Yahya, and Beulah Seema Soans. A students’ review of Andrea Nightingale’s book “Environment and sustainability in a globalizing world”.
October 24, 2019
By Alexandra Mitsiou.
Forest fires are directly connected to degradation of primary forest and land use changes for the expansion of grasslands (for cattle farming) and for commercially interesting monocultures such as oil palm, soya and rubber.
October 1, 2019
By Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher.
In the face of the sixth extinction, rising wildlife crime and biodiversity under dire threat around the globe, environmental conservation finds itself in desperate times. A new approach is needed, one that takes seriously our economic system’s structural pressures, violent socio-ecological realities, escalating extinctions and increasingly authoritarian politics. Convivial conservation is such an approach.
January 16, 2018
by Marco Armiero How many times have we repeated to each other that there is a need, an urgent need, for a political ecology of post-socialist countries? Thereby, we should warmly welcome Stefan Dorondel’s insightful ethnographic research on two villages in post-socialist Romania: Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania (Bergham Press, 2016). First of all, let’s start with a disclaimer which I believe it is appropriate for the Entitle blog. In writing about this volume I do have a conflict of […]
November 23, 2017
by Salvatore De Rosa and Jevgeniy Bluwstein The “Warning to Humanity” signed by more than 15.000 scientists calls for action to save the planet proposing elitist environmentalism and missing the real target. Instead, scientists should analyse the roots of the socio-ecological crisis and join the grassroots struggles pushing for structural changes from local to global A recent “Warning to Humanity” by Ripple et al, signed by more than 15.000 scientists, has received global media attention. According to this call for action, the threat of global […]
February 2, 2017
By Bram Büscher and Robert Fletcher* If environmental conservation doesn’t face the current political movement by becoming much more radical there will soon be precious little biodiversity to conserve.