New paper now online in @natureandspace.bsky.social
'Towards a transformative approach to just rural transitions: Landscape restoration in the Scottish highlands'
W/ Adrian Martin, Janet Fisher & @mathildegingembre.bsky.social
@developmentuea.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/2514...
🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms.
But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?
📢new paper alert, check it out in the Journal of Rural Studies! Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America. Led by Lou Lecuyer (@inrae-france.bsky.social): authors.elsevier.com/c/1ktvo2eyKF...
#NewPublication #OpenAccess 🔓🌍
Decolonizing European agriculture? Research co-authored by DEV Iokiñe Rodríguez & team show how Indigenous Latin American wisdom can transform farming justice
Read this paper for free here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In this new paper, David Brown @browndee17.bsky.social and Jennifer Gabrys explore the role of communities in landscape regeneration initiatives worldwide through a systematic review: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
David Brown
🏴 Who owns Scotland's offshore wind assets?
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit
Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind
Platform
Brendan Coolsaet
In her new paper, “This Machine Kills CO2,” Jennifer Gabrys considers the narrative of trees as machines, which reflects the role of technological thinking in addressing planetary crises: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Development UEA
Planetary Praxis
Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland closed last week with over 400 job losses, ending a century of refining. @riyokoshibe.bsky.social and I have published research in Antipode using interviews we recorded with Grangemouth workers to understand why they view the closure and redundancies as unjust.
Thea Riofrancos
Future Economy Scotland
Planetary Praxis
Ewan Gibbs
Video
The modernization of European agriculture and new societal concerns around global environmental change and food quality have led to forms of marginali…
Fossil fuel workers are central protagonists in achieving a “just transition” to a greener and fairer economy. This article examines workforce attitudes towards transition, redundancy, and restructur....
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "“This Machine Kills CO2”: Planting a Trillion Trees and Mobilizing Forests as Technologies" by Jennifer Gabrys @planetarypraxis.bsky.social #forests #treeplanting #restoration #climatetechnology #technicity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Science, Technology, & Human Values
Trees and forests often feature as solutions to environmental crises, thereby encouraging tree planting projects. This article considers how “trillion trees” pr...
