David Brown
@browndee17.bsky.social
Researching rural communities, landscape regeneration and just transitions at the Centre for Landscape Regeneration.
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David Brown
@browndee17.bsky.social
· Aug 22
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...
'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...
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🏴 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
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
October 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🏴 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
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
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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...
October 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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...
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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/...
July 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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/...
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...
'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...
August 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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...
'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...
Reposted by David Brown
📢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...
April 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
📢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...
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🧵 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?
But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?
May 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
🧵 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?
But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?
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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.
Workers’ Perspectives on an Unjust Transition: Place, History, and Workplace Closure at Grangemouth Oil Refinery, Scotland
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....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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.
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#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...
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...
Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America
The modernization of European agriculture and new societal concerns around global environmental change and food quality have led to forms of marginali…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#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...
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...
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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
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
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Hi, BlueSky! Delighted to📣 Decolonizing Environmentalism (bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) is hitting the virtual book-shelf later this month & the bookstores in the new year. We wrote it esp. for the youth environmental & climate activists. Plz help spread the word. www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...
Decolonizing Environmentalism
We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering t…
www.bloomsbury.com
December 10, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Hi, BlueSky! Delighted to📣 Decolonizing Environmentalism (bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) is hitting the virtual book-shelf later this month & the bookstores in the new year. We wrote it esp. for the youth environmental & climate activists. Plz help spread the word. www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...
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We're already at the point of automating the installation economy - there won't even be green jobs assembling things built somewhere else. The Transition Economy is the worse convergence of servicization and automation.
December 6, 2024 at 11:10 AM
We're already at the point of automating the installation economy - there won't even be green jobs assembling things built somewhere else. The Transition Economy is the worse convergence of servicization and automation.