Publicaties
We are ‘greening’ ourselves to extinction Universiteit Antwerpen
Analytical dualisms Universiteit Antwerpen
The green economy as plantation ecology Universiteit Antwerpen
The green economy is proposed as a solution to address growing and potentially irreversible ecological crises. But what happens when environmental solutions are premised on the same logics of brutal simplification and dehumanization that sustain and reinforce systems of oppression and ecological breakdown? In this article, we describe the transformation of the biophysical landscape of the planet into replicable blueprints of the plantation plot. ...
Emergence and emergent properties Universiteit Antwerpen
The "greening" of empire Universiteit Antwerpen
The recent past has seen the proposal of multiple ‘Green New Deals’ across geographies as a means to fight against the climate crisis and ecological breakdown. Of these, the European Green Deal- EGD represents the world's first public commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. Because the EGD plans to “transform the EU,” in this paper we examine how it fits within a historical continuum of ...
Fifteen years of research on payments for ecosystem services (PES) Universiteit Antwerpen
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) have gained widespread prominence as a flagship solution for ecological challenges and attracts multi-billion-dollar annual investments. This large-scale meta-analysis analyzes the epistemic, methodological, and ethical–political assumptions of over 1,000 peer-reviewed articles on PES from 2005 to 2019. Results highlight that effectiveness of PES outcomes, design of PES policy, and market-based valuation of ...
Internationale plannen voor natuurbescherming zijn slechts een verderzetting van kolonialisme Universiteit Antwerpen
Ze willen de internationale plannen voor natuurbescherming grondig herdenken, onderzoekers Vijay Kolinjivadi & Gert Van Hecken (Universiteit Antwerpen). Want de huidige plannen vallen binnen een erg westers wereldbeeld, en dat heeft nefaste gevolgen. ‘In feite worden natuurreservaten een kapitalistisch goed, terwijl inheemse gemeenschappen geen zelfbeschikkingsrecht krijgen over hun directe omgeving.’
A Green New Deal beyond the North Universiteit Antwerpen
In recognition of widening social inequality and ever-obvious ecological breakdown, growing calls in industrialized nations have been made for a “Green New Deal” to respond to these twinned crises. On the menu for transformative and “just” transitions include shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy, nature conservation, climate adaptation and resilience, and improved and dignified jobs and living conditions for working class people. Yet ...
Playing into the hands of the powerful Universiteit Antwerpen
Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are premised upon the provision of monetary incentives to induce land-use practices viewed to be beneficial for advancing tropical conservation. A recent article published by Pagiola et al. in this journal claims that PES successfully transitioned land-use from agricultural use in Matiguás-Río Blanco, Nicaragua to silvopastoralism through afforestation and hence associated improvements in carbon ...