Alexander Vorbrugg
@alexvorbrugg.bsky.social
geographer uni bern | political ecology | rural studies | land
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What role did environmental issues play during this year’s Ukraine Recovery Conference?
Ievgeniia Kopytsia and I provide answers in this @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social article:
uwecworkgroup.info/building-bac...
We summarise debates, identify contradictions, and make some suggestions on strategies
Ievgeniia Kopytsia and I provide answers in this @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social article:
uwecworkgroup.info/building-bac...
We summarise debates, identify contradictions, and make some suggestions on strategies
August 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
What role did environmental issues play during this year’s Ukraine Recovery Conference?
Ievgeniia Kopytsia and I provide answers in this @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social article:
uwecworkgroup.info/building-bac...
We summarise debates, identify contradictions, and make some suggestions on strategies
Ievgeniia Kopytsia and I provide answers in this @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social article:
uwecworkgroup.info/building-bac...
We summarise debates, identify contradictions, and make some suggestions on strategies
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✍️ #Ukraine plans to sign high seas treaty that #Russia refuses to join
Russia's unwillingness to sign the #HighSeasTreaty may well be related to its interest in resource extraction in the #Arctic.
🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...
Russia's unwillingness to sign the #HighSeasTreaty may well be related to its interest in resource extraction in the #Arctic.
🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...
August 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
✍️ #Ukraine plans to sign high seas treaty that #Russia refuses to join
Russia's unwillingness to sign the #HighSeasTreaty may well be related to its interest in resource extraction in the #Arctic.
🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...
Russia's unwillingness to sign the #HighSeasTreaty may well be related to its interest in resource extraction in the #Arctic.
🔗 Read more: uwecworkgroup.info/environmenta...
My review of @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social's book "Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia's War" is out, open access, here: gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...
A truly outstanding book on environmental impacts, how people and non-humans cope, sad, beautifully written, very accessible!
A truly outstanding book on environmental impacts, how people and non-humans cope, sad, beautifully written, very accessible!
August 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My review of @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social's book "Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia's War" is out, open access, here: gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...
A truly outstanding book on environmental impacts, how people and non-humans cope, sad, beautifully written, very accessible!
A truly outstanding book on environmental impacts, how people and non-humans cope, sad, beautifully written, very accessible!
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Il y a 57 ans, les tanks soviétiques roulaient sur les pavés de #Prague. C'était le début de l'occupation de la Tchécoslovaquie sous prétexte d'"aide fraternelle". Un vocable qui n'a pas disparu chez certains. Mais l'histoire est là pour nous avertir. N'oublions pas. ✌️🇨🇿
August 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Il y a 57 ans, les tanks soviétiques roulaient sur les pavés de #Prague. C'était le début de l'occupation de la Tchécoslovaquie sous prétexte d'"aide fraternelle". Un vocable qui n'a pas disparu chez certains. Mais l'histoire est là pour nous avertir. N'oublions pas. ✌️🇨🇿
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Behind every headline are hours of research and interviews. Support our subscription model and keep rigorous climate reporting alive. buff.ly/Ax0XSJ5
August 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Behind every headline are hours of research and interviews. Support our subscription model and keep rigorous climate reporting alive. buff.ly/Ax0XSJ5
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I’m honoured to announce the release of the volume "Russia against Ukraine: Russian Political Mythology and the War on Ukrainian Identity", a multi-author study that examines the politically driven hostility towards Ukraine deeply rooted in Russian geopolitical chauvinism: buff.ly/obr8I30
August 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I’m honoured to announce the release of the volume "Russia against Ukraine: Russian Political Mythology and the War on Ukrainian Identity", a multi-author study that examines the politically driven hostility towards Ukraine deeply rooted in Russian geopolitical chauvinism: buff.ly/obr8I30
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If you haven't gotten yours yet, now get a a copy of @alexvorbrugg.bsky.social 's brilliant book on dispersed dispossession in rural Russia.
www.ugapress.org/978082036388...
#geosky
www.ugapress.org/978082036388...
#geosky
Dispersed Dispossession
This book provides a nuanced analysis of rural change in Russia during the 2010s, a crucial and formative phase marked by the consolidation of giant agricult...
www.ugapress.org
July 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
If you haven't gotten yours yet, now get a a copy of @alexvorbrugg.bsky.social 's brilliant book on dispersed dispossession in rural Russia.
www.ugapress.org/978082036388...
#geosky
www.ugapress.org/978082036388...
#geosky
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A thoughtful review of @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social's 'Ecocide in Ukraine' by @alexvorbrugg.bsky.social published on the website of the Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group
uwecworkgroup.info/ecocide-in-u...
uwecworkgroup.info/ecocide-in-u...
Ecocide in Ukraine. The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War. Book review – Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group
Alexander Vorbrugg Ecocide in Ukraine is an outstanding testimony to the environmental costs of Russia’s war, a moving tribute to humans, ecosystems, animals, and plants in Ukraine, and a thoughtful r...
uwecworkgroup.info
July 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A thoughtful review of @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social's 'Ecocide in Ukraine' by @alexvorbrugg.bsky.social published on the website of the Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group
uwecworkgroup.info/ecocide-in-u...
uwecworkgroup.info/ecocide-in-u...
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Dieses Konzert sollte ganz #Europa alarmieren: Marko Perković aka Thompson, tritt heute in #Zagreb vor bis zu 500.000 Menschen auf.
Er steht für eine gefährliche Mischung aus Rechtsextremismus, Nationalismus und der Verherrlichung des Ustaša-Regimes.
1/6
orf.at/stories/3398...
Er steht für eine gefährliche Mischung aus Rechtsextremismus, Nationalismus und der Verherrlichung des Ustaša-Regimes.
1/6
orf.at/stories/3398...
Zagreb vor Großkonzert von Rechtsextremem Thompson
orf.at
July 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Dieses Konzert sollte ganz #Europa alarmieren: Marko Perković aka Thompson, tritt heute in #Zagreb vor bis zu 500.000 Menschen auf.
Er steht für eine gefährliche Mischung aus Rechtsextremismus, Nationalismus und der Verherrlichung des Ustaša-Regimes.
1/6
orf.at/stories/3398...
Er steht für eine gefährliche Mischung aus Rechtsextremismus, Nationalismus und der Verherrlichung des Ustaša-Regimes.
1/6
orf.at/stories/3398...
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Es ist wie Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor @blaetter.bsky.social beschreiben: „Aufstieg des Endzeitfaschismus”. Ideologische Grundierung beginnt jedoch nicht im Trumpismus oder im Umfeld der AfD, sondern in bürgerlicher Mitte, die Privilegien erhalten & die Wirtschaft über das Leben der Vielen stellt.
Aufstieg des Endzeitfaschismus
Die Bewegung für unternehmensgeführte Stadtstaaten kann ihr Glück kaum fassen. Seit Jahren propagiert sie die extreme Vorstellung, dass wohlhabende, steuerscheue Menschen ihre eigenen Hightech-Lehen g...
www.blaetter.de
July 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Es ist wie Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor @blaetter.bsky.social beschreiben: „Aufstieg des Endzeitfaschismus”. Ideologische Grundierung beginnt jedoch nicht im Trumpismus oder im Umfeld der AfD, sondern in bürgerlicher Mitte, die Privilegien erhalten & die Wirtschaft über das Leben der Vielen stellt.
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Is rearmament costing the Earth?
Our OpEd in this summer's European Energy Innovation magazine explores how spiralling military spending places EU and global climate goals at risk. www.europeanenergyinnovation.eu/OnlinePublic... #COP30
Our OpEd in this summer's European Energy Innovation magazine explores how spiralling military spending places EU and global climate goals at risk. www.europeanenergyinnovation.eu/OnlinePublic... #COP30
EEI magazine - summer 2025 edition
www.europeanenergyinnovation.eu
July 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Is rearmament costing the Earth?
Our OpEd in this summer's European Energy Innovation magazine explores how spiralling military spending places EU and global climate goals at risk. www.europeanenergyinnovation.eu/OnlinePublic... #COP30
Our OpEd in this summer's European Energy Innovation magazine explores how spiralling military spending places EU and global climate goals at risk. www.europeanenergyinnovation.eu/OnlinePublic... #COP30
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Die CH verfügt über tech. Mittel und Investitionskraft, um die #Energiewende schnell umzusetzen. Was fehlt, sind Rahmenbedingungen, die ökol. und sozioökonomische Faktoren gleichermassen berücksichtigen.
Gastbeitrag S. 8: issuu.com/smart_media/...
@retoknutti.bsky.social @PetraSieber #SPEED2ZERO
Gastbeitrag S. 8: issuu.com/smart_media/...
@retoknutti.bsky.social @PetraSieber #SPEED2ZERO
Fokus Energiestandort Schweiz
issuu.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Die CH verfügt über tech. Mittel und Investitionskraft, um die #Energiewende schnell umzusetzen. Was fehlt, sind Rahmenbedingungen, die ökol. und sozioökonomische Faktoren gleichermassen berücksichtigen.
Gastbeitrag S. 8: issuu.com/smart_media/...
@retoknutti.bsky.social @PetraSieber #SPEED2ZERO
Gastbeitrag S. 8: issuu.com/smart_media/...
@retoknutti.bsky.social @PetraSieber #SPEED2ZERO
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1/ 🙏 PLEASE support our work!
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Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group has been highlighting the far-reaching environmental consequences of Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine since 2022.
uwecworkgroup.info/donate/
Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group has been highlighting the far-reaching environmental consequences of Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine since 2022.
June 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
1/ 🙏 PLEASE support our work!
uwecworkgroup.info/donate/
Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group has been highlighting the far-reaching environmental consequences of Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine since 2022.
uwecworkgroup.info/donate/
Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group has been highlighting the far-reaching environmental consequences of Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine since 2022.
In a time of ecocide in Ukraine, please read @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social 's outstanding book, and support @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social 's important work!
1_Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Working Group
has been an important space for me, a platform where environmentalists on the ground (and not only) share their expert analysis of the environmental impacts of Russia's war on Ukraine
uwecworkgroup.info/ecocide-in-u...
has been an important space for me, a platform where environmentalists on the ground (and not only) share their expert analysis of the environmental impacts of Russia's war on Ukraine
uwecworkgroup.info/ecocide-in-u...
Ecocide in Ukraine. The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War. Book review – Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group
Alexander Vorbrugg Ecocide in Ukraine is an outstanding testimony to the environmental costs of Russia’s war, a moving tribute to humans, ecosystems, animals, and plants in Ukraine, and a thoughtful r...
uwecworkgroup.info
June 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
In a time of ecocide in Ukraine, please read @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social 's outstanding book, and support @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social 's important work!
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In: Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social and Taras Kuzio, eds., Russia and Modern Fascism: New Perspectives on the Kremlin's War Against Ukraine. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2025.
@ffrafaction.bsky.social @komrex-unijena.bsky.social @russlandverstehen.eu @russlandwatcher.de @deskrussia.bsky.social
@ffrafaction.bsky.social @komrex-unijena.bsky.social @russlandverstehen.eu @russlandwatcher.de @deskrussia.bsky.social
(PDF) Preface by the Series Editor
PDF | In: Ian Garner and Taras Kuzio, eds., Russia and Modern Fascism: New Perspectives on the Kremlin's War Against Ukraine. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag,... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
www.researchgate.net
June 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
In: Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social and Taras Kuzio, eds., Russia and Modern Fascism: New Perspectives on the Kremlin's War Against Ukraine. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2025.
@ffrafaction.bsky.social @komrex-unijena.bsky.social @russlandverstehen.eu @russlandwatcher.de @deskrussia.bsky.social
@ffrafaction.bsky.social @komrex-unijena.bsky.social @russlandverstehen.eu @russlandwatcher.de @deskrussia.bsky.social
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1/ 🛰️ How can we record the environmental and economic consequences of #war from #space?
🔗 Read about how #satellite data aid assessment of the extent of damage and chances for recovery of #Ukraine in an article on the UWEC website: uwecworkgroup.info/satellite-da...
🔗 Read about how #satellite data aid assessment of the extent of damage and chances for recovery of #Ukraine in an article on the UWEC website: uwecworkgroup.info/satellite-da...
June 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
1/ 🛰️ How can we record the environmental and economic consequences of #war from #space?
🔗 Read about how #satellite data aid assessment of the extent of damage and chances for recovery of #Ukraine in an article on the UWEC website: uwecworkgroup.info/satellite-da...
🔗 Read about how #satellite data aid assessment of the extent of damage and chances for recovery of #Ukraine in an article on the UWEC website: uwecworkgroup.info/satellite-da...
Curious what happened to forest certification in Russia, country with largest forest area, when FSC left after full-scale invasion of Ukraine? Our research on this, and what it says about institutional/governance adaptation to global decoupling, is published
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The transformation of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certification Scheme in Russia after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
This article investigates the transformation of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification scheme in Russia into the complementary Forest Etal…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Curious what happened to forest certification in Russia, country with largest forest area, when FSC left after full-scale invasion of Ukraine? Our research on this, and what it says about institutional/governance adaptation to global decoupling, is published
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Kate Marvel, Climate Scientist at NASA and formerly, Project Drawdown, has written an extraordinary and beautiful book on emotions surrounding climate change called, "Human Nature."
Check out her recent interview with the @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...
Check out her recent interview with the @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...
How to cope with grief and find wonder as Earth's climate changes - The Washington Post
This week, large parts of the country are experiencing extreme heat and humidity. Alaska issued its first-ever heat advisory. Climate scientist Kate Marvel tells us how to fight climate fatalism and f...
www.washingtonpost.com
June 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Kate Marvel, Climate Scientist at NASA and formerly, Project Drawdown, has written an extraordinary and beautiful book on emotions surrounding climate change called, "Human Nature."
Check out her recent interview with the @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...
Check out her recent interview with the @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...
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"UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change, Elisa Morgera, called for misinformation and greenwashing by the fossil fuel industry to be criminalise"
Damn right
And fossil fuel CEOs should be first in the dock
Climate lies cost lives
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Damn right
And fossil fuel CEOs should be first in the dock
Climate lies cost lives
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report
False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change, Elisa Morgera, called for misinformation and greenwashing by the fossil fuel industry to be criminalise"
Damn right
And fossil fuel CEOs should be first in the dock
Climate lies cost lives
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Damn right
And fossil fuel CEOs should be first in the dock
Climate lies cost lives
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Adam Calo, Sylvia Kay, Sarah R Sippel, Coline Perrin, and Kirsteen Shields explore how geographically variegated property regimes in the Global North shape the scope of the commodification and assetization of farmland, and discuss radical alternatives to private property.
tinyurl.com/2atadp9n
tinyurl.com/2atadp9n
June 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Adam Calo, Sylvia Kay, Sarah R Sippel, Coline Perrin, and Kirsteen Shields explore how geographically variegated property regimes in the Global North shape the scope of the commodification and assetization of farmland, and discuss radical alternatives to private property.
tinyurl.com/2atadp9n
tinyurl.com/2atadp9n
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If you are interested in land politics, check out @econgeo.bsky.social 's Institutional Landscapes webpage. They are graciously hosting this guest post:
#25 Towards a Land-first Food Movement in the Global North: A New Collection on Sustainable Food and Land Governance | Institutional Landscapes
institutionallandscapes.org
June 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
If you are interested in land politics, check out @econgeo.bsky.social 's Institutional Landscapes webpage. They are graciously hosting this guest post:
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Brazil is set to auction 172 oil and gas blocks today... 68 of them are in the Amazon. It’s happening just as the country prepares to host #COP30, raising concerns over the expansion of fossil fuels in one of the world’s most vital ecosystems.
The Amazon rainforest emerges as the new global oil frontier
Half a century of oil drilling has left the Amazon rainforest scarred -and a new wave of fossil fuel extraction is coming
www.climatechangenews.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Brazil is set to auction 172 oil and gas blocks today... 68 of them are in the Amazon. It’s happening just as the country prepares to host #COP30, raising concerns over the expansion of fossil fuels in one of the world’s most vital ecosystems.
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Angesichts der Verbindungen des mutmaßlichen Attentäters in die Welt der sog. independent charismatic Christianity und New Apostolic Reformation, hier (frei für alle) meine Podcast-Doppelfolge mit @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social aus dem letzten Jahr, über ihren Einfluss und Radikalisierungspotential:
USA Update 182: Die New Apostolic Reformation, Gewalt und spirituelle Kriegsführung - Interview mit Dr. Matthew Taylor, Teil 1 | Annika Brockschmidt
Get more from Annika Brockschmidt on Patreon
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June 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Angesichts der Verbindungen des mutmaßlichen Attentäters in die Welt der sog. independent charismatic Christianity und New Apostolic Reformation, hier (frei für alle) meine Podcast-Doppelfolge mit @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social aus dem letzten Jahr, über ihren Einfluss und Radikalisierungspotential: