A review of green infrastructure research in Europe: Challenges and opportunities

A Chatzimentor, E Apostolopoulou… - Landscape and Urban …, 2020 - Elsevier
Green Infrastructure (GI) is defined as a network of natural and semi-natural areas that is
strategically designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services and to …

Reviewing 15 years of research on neoliberal conservation: Towards a decolonial, interdisciplinary, intersectional and community-engaged research agenda

E Apostolopoulou, A Chatzimentor, S Maestre-Andrés… - Geoforum, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we undertake an extensive review of the neoliberal conservation literature with
the aim to explore and substantiate the principal ways in which conservation is …

Tracing the links between infrastructure‐led development, urban transformation, and inequality in China's belt and road initiative

E Apostolopoulou - Antipode, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, I explore the links between infrastructure‐led development, urban
transformation and inequality in China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). I theorise the BRI as a …

Elucidating the changing roles of civil society in urban sustainability transitions

N Frantzeskaki, A Dumitru, I Anguelovski… - Current Opinion in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Civil society plays different roles in urban sustainability transitions beyond civil
advocacy.•Civil society is increasingly recognized as a cog for sustainability transitions.•Civil …

Biodiversity offsetting and conservation: reframing nature to save it

E Apostolopoulou, WM Adams - Oryx, 2017 - cambridge.org
Biodiversity offsetting involves the balancing of biodiversity loss in one place (and at one
time) by an equivalent biodiversity gain elsewhere (an outcome referred to as No Net Loss) …

[HTML][HTML] Glocal woodlands–The rescaling of forest governance in Scotland

K Sharma, G Walters, MJ Metzger, J Ghazoul - Land Use Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
As a response to global crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, the UN has called for
restoring a billion hectares of land. In recognition, both governments and the private sector …

The 'green'and 'self'in green self-governance–a study of 264 green space initiatives by citizens

T Mattijssen, A Buijs, B Elands, B Arts - Journal of Environmental …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Scholars observe an increased involvement of citizens in green space governance. This
paper focuses on green self-governance, in which citizens play a major role in realizing …

The role of non-governmental organizations in achieving environmental justice for green and blue spaces

A Rigolon, S Gibson - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2021 - Elsevier
The governance of green and blue spaces (GBS) has gradually shifted from public agencies
to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide. Scholars have attributed this shift to …

Public participation and environmental justice in biodiversity governance in Finland, Greece, Poland and the UK

R Paloniemi, E Apostolopoulou, J Cent… - Environmental Policy …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The novel articulations between the state, markets and civil society arising from the shift to
networked environmental governance highlight the importance of creating equal …

Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland

JR Holz - Sustainability Science, 2023 - Springer
Bioeconomy is portrayed by the EU and several national governments as a central element
contributing to sustainability strategies and a post-fossil transformation. This paper critically …