environmental governance
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Review of “Circular ecologies: environmentalism and waste politics in Urban China by Amy Zhang”
CASAS’ member Daren Shi-Chi Leung has published this review of the book Circular ecologies: environmentalism and waste politics in Urban China by Amy Zhang in the Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: With intellectual rigor and ethnographic richness, Amy Zhang offers her much -anticipated monograph, Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China. In this…
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Who is who in CASAS? Enrique Castañón Ballivián
Enrique Castañón Ballivián is a Lecturer in International Development at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. He researches the dynamics, theory and politics of agrarian change and environmental governance in Latin America, with a focus on agribusiness expansion and resource politics. Enrique is an Editor of the Journal of Agrarian Change. To know…
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MST’s Arvoredo app: Family farmers and grassroots environmental data-driven governance in Brazil
CASAS’ member Estevan Coca and his colleague Ricardo Barbosa Jr. have published this article in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. Abstract: The pervasive use of digital technologies in agriculture has drawn substantial critical attention, predominantly focusing on how industrial agriculture leverages digital tools and services to exert control and maximize profits across food…
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Livelihood Transitions To and Away from the Coal Economy in India
Suravee Nayak, CASAS’ member, has published a chapter in the book “Rethinking environmental governance” with Patrik Oskarsson & Nikas Kindo. Abstract: As coal mines expand across Central and Eastern India, rural groups typically protest against displacement and demand better compensation. Meanwhile, and often in the immediate vicinity of the expanding mines, people previously displaced but…