Although global rates of tropical deforestation remain alarmingly high, they have decreased
over the period 2000–2010, and a handful of tropical developing countries have recently …

In recent years, perhaps the two most prominent debates in geography on issues of
biodiversity conservation have hinged upon, firstly, the positive and negative social impacts …

The expansion of capitalism produces contests over the definition and control of resources.
On a global scale, new patterns of resource exploration, extraction, and commodification …

In Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance
of Indonesia's contemporary oil palm plantations in Indonesia, which supply 50 percent of …

examination of the rapidly growing field of political ecology. Located at the intersection of
geography, anthropology, sociology, and environmental history, political ecology is one of …

Treating the “state” as a finished product gets in the way of understanding it. The state is
always in the making. This article, which acts as the Introduction to a special issue, argues …

The urgency of restoring ecosystems to improve human wellbeing and mitigate climate and
biodiversity crises is attracting global attention. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration …

Land questions have invigorated agrarian studies and economic history, with particular
emphases on its control, since Marx. Words such as 'exclusion','alienation','expropriation',' …

The concept of a 'just transition'to a low‐carbon economy is firmly embedded in mainstream
global discourses about mitigating climate change. Drawing on Karl Polanyi's political …

Making Political Ecology presents a comprehensive view of an important new field in human
geography and interdisciplinary studies of nature-society relations. Tracing the development …