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A political ecology network that unites multiple voices in environmental justice and resource struggles.
NEW ARTICLE 📖 Restoring former saltpans in France’s Camargue reveals tensions between climate risk, economic precarity, and differing views of nature. These conflicts have limited support for the project and challenged its framing as a nature-based solution. www.revue-mem.com/571
Situating vulnerability in relation to nature(s): the case of a saltpan restoration project in the Camargue – Mutations en Méditerranée
This article discusses the implementation of an ecosystem restoration project on formerly exploited saltpans in the Camargue, France, to interrogate human and non-human types of vulnerability. Using a...
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December 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
REFOREST is recruiting a funded PhD positions in the Forest Sciences for applicants from Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. Deadline January 25. Please see further information at: www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz/reforest/
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December 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Since 2010 RWM/Rheinmetall produces weapons in Sulcis, Sardegna, expanding to fuel wars in Palestine, Yemen, Ukraine, Kurdistan.They are now pushing for retroactive approval to expand the arms industry at the expense of people & the environment. MORE INFO: www.italiachecambia.org/2025/10/rwm-...
RWM e ampliamento: la fabbrica di bombe del Sulcis e la decisione che attende la Giunta Todde | Sardegna che cambia
Il caso RWM Sardegna: la fabbrica di bombe nel Sulcis e la richiesta alla Giunta Todde di fermarne l’ampliamento.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Important paper exploring how power, pedagogy, and praxis shape inequitable climate knowledge, governance, and policy🌎 📖: Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality. By Farhana Sultana rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Repairing epistemic injustice and loss in the era of climate coloniality
The material dimensions of loss and damage from climate change are compounded by systemic knowledge-based loss and epistemic injustice from the marginalisation and exclusion of critical voices and kn...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Special Issue: 🎇 Introducing Anarchy and Degrowth: Towards rebellious, prefigurative, and insurrectionary degrowth ecologies. www.degrowthjournal.org/publications... @drxdunlap.bsky.social
Editorial: Introducing Anarchy and Degrowth: Towards rebellious, prefigurative, and insurrectionary degrowth ecologies | Degrowth Journal
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December 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
New paper is out 📖: Nature, rent and the persistence of inequality: A Georgist political ecology. In Human Geography. By @Joe Williams journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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December 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
New article is out 📖: Under the palm trees: Social and environmental considerations around the expansion of Medjool dates in the Southern Jordan Valley. In Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies. By Livia Perosino link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Under the palm trees: Social and environmental considerations around the expansion of Medjool dates in the Southern Jordan Valley - Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies
The article analyses the agricultural transformation of the Jordan Valley (JV). The specific socio-technical imaginary that has driven this transformation has led to the systematic overexploitation of...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
17/12/2025 in Barcelona, Espai KU. "Historia del Agua de Mendoza" A documentary on people’s struggle to defend water. A story of how protection was lost, resistance began, and water was reclaimed in ten day. espaiku.blogspot.com/2025/12/pase...
Pase del documental: HAM - Historia del Agua de Mendoza
--Documental-- Miércoles 17.12, 19.30 h.-- 2019 : El gobierno local deroga la 7.722 que impide el uso de tóxicos en la minería. El pueblo lo...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
📢 Community-led conservation from the ground up: learning, agency, tenacity, and solidarity as key forces shaping environmental governance beyond top-down models. pollenpoliticalecology.network/community-le...
Community-Led Conservation: Learning Agency, Tenacity, and Solidarity from the Ground Up - POLLEN
Johan-Arango Quiroga explains his inspiring journey from engineering towards environmental justice.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
E finalmente "Conservation Revolution" in Italiano!! :) Importante testo per capire il legame tra Conservazione della biodiversità, il colonialismo, e l'economia Capitalista. Una chiamata verso la convivialità!
The Conservation Revolution is out in Italian!

Conservation revolution. Idee radicali per salvare la natura oltre l'Antropocene (MiMesis)

Many thanks to Marco Immovilli, Margherita Cisani, Andrea Zinzani & Giacomo Zanolin for their amazing work!

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December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Castillo, C., (2025) “Environmentalities, subjectivities, and adaptation capacities in Costa Rican smallholder farms”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 7082. doi: doi.org/10.2458/jpe.... @pollenetwork.bsky.social
Environmentalities, subjectivities, and adaptation capacities in Costa Rican smallholder farms
This article explores how different forms of adaptation governance in Costa Rica shape subjectivities and adaptation capacities in smallholder farms. The country presently has a neoliberal-welfare sta...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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📢New article Undisciplined Environments
debunking the film "Europe's Lithium Paradox."

undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/12/15/p...

It is disappointing this film was hosted @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

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December 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
New paper 📖: Staddon, S. 2025. The Politics of Care in Coping Well with Change: Conceptualising and Questioning Care to Move beyond ‘Resilience’ in Rural Nepal. Journal of Forest and Livelihood, 25(1): 1-21 nepjol.info/index.php/JF...
The Politics of Care in Coping Well with Change: Conceptualising and Questioning Care to Move beyond ‘Resilience’ in Rural Nepal. | Journal of Forest and Livelihood
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December 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
New post blog 🚩Vanessa Perreira Perin maps how agricultural land in Brazil is turned into financial assets, tracing two phases of financialization and the political and legal battles shaping these opaque pathways. institutionallandscapes.org/contribution...
#29 Following the Paths of Assetization: Notes from the Brazilian Agriculture Case | Institutional Landscapes
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December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
📖 New paper: Tunn, Johanna. 2025. “Epistemic Violence in Global Climate Governance: The Case of Climate Finance in Vanuatu.” Geo: Geography and Environment 12, no. 2: e70036. doi.org/10.1002/geo2....
Epistemic Violence in Global Climate Governance: The Case of Climate Finance in Vanuatu
This paper examines how epistemic violence operates within Vanuatu's climate finance (access) industry. Integrating conceptual work on epistemic violence with empirical fieldwork, it identifies four ...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
📖 New paper: Klepp, S. (2025): The politics of coastal erosion in Sicily: Concrete infrastructures and the economy of disaster. Global Environmental Change (95) December 2025, 103076 (open access). Based on the paper: www.erosione.org
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December 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
📢 Ágora | Minerales críticos en debate. El 16 de diciembre se debatira los retos de la creciente demanda de materiales críticos para la transición energética y digital. 📍 Aula Magna – Facultat de Ciències de la Terra (UB) 📺 Streaming: youtube.com/live/yLIX3Hl...
Minerals crítics a debat: Perspectives geològiques, econòmiques....
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December 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
An essential report that highlight how Care workers, are essential to sustaining people, communities & the planet. This report shows why their rights, needs & knowledge must be at the center of the JUST TRANSITION. #JustTransition #CareWork @stefaniabarca.bsky.social www.unrisd.org/en/library/p...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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#Agenda

POLLEN Conference 2026
Barcelona June 29 - July 3, 2026

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona: 30 June
Universitat de Barcelona: 29 June, 1-3 July

*The call for presentations & posters POLLEN2026, Barcelona Call ends 05 December 2025

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November 23, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Amazing days with the POLLEN Secretary team!
One of the great things about Barcelona - working with the @pollenetwork.bsky.social secretariat: Laila, Ele, Rebecca and Blanket (the cat). Here planning POLLEN comms up the coast in Masnou. We will be recruiting one more person to this team.
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Interested or know someone interested in doing a PhD on environmental histories/materialities of zoonotic or infectious animal disease as part of Transformative Humanities @durham.ac.uk Then please get in touch by Dec 8th! @pollenetwork.bsky.social @emilywebz.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🌐 #COP30 alarm: “Colonialist logic” creeping in as rich countries pay poorer ones for emission credits—letting the North keep polluting while the South bears the burden.
#ClimateJustice #CarbonMarkets www.publico.es/sociedad/m-a...
La lógica colonialista irrumpe en la COP30: el norte paga al sur a cambio de poder contaminar más
Los mercados de carbono permiten comprar a terceros países derechos de emisión de gases para alcanzar los compromisos de reducción, desplazando así la deuda de carbono.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🌍 At #COP30, deep divides remain on fossil fuel phase-out and carbon cuts. While 80+ countries back a roadmap, major fossil-fuel-dependent states resist — sparking fears the summit may end without a meaningful deal.
#ClimateCrisis #JustTransition www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30 delegates ‘far apart’ on phasing out fossil fuels and cutting carbon
President of talks urges ministers and high-ranking officials to find common ground as conference nears its end
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November 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
📖 New Publication. Rauchecker et al. (2025) introduce an emancipatory approach to analyzing social-ecological conflicts—bringing other-than-humans into environmental conflict analysis. #PoliticalEcology #SocioEcological #environmentaljustice journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM