Our latest article, led by phd student Pilii Delpino Marimón & facilitated by collaboration through @sesync, highlights how tradescapes rework finance, infrastructure and rights along forest frontiers. Access 👇
https://t.co/C0NFgYGGee
Global Witness: Record number of environmental activists murdered. “Almost a third of the murders were reportedly linked to resource exploitation-logging, mining, large-scale agribusiness, hydroelectric dams and other infrastructure” “This must stop” https://t.co/UXNflRE52g
How can we protect natural resources in the midst of economic reactivation policies and a politics of urgency?
Join #KAPTalks with @TonyBebbington on #COVID’s impact on the intersection of natural resources and social justice issues.
☑️ Register here: https://t.co/GRvkGJXtAb
@Coimbra_ Island Songs is such a wonderful collection. Music as geography, place embodied in music. Beauty, longing, history, landscape. So looking forward to @OlafurArnalds at Berklee
Today marks 5 years since Island Songs was released.
To this day, it's one of my favourite projects I've worked on. The idea was to explore a different side of Icelandic musicality and honour the incredible talent and artistry of the locals that give so much to their communities.
Do not miss our latest Annual Report! It is full of inspiring stories from communities who are courageously and creatively defending and strengthening their communal land rights, and have done so amidst challenging circumstances. Read more here:
https://t.co/S7JTfqs2wG
Join us next Friday (26 March) for our next exciting seminar! Dr Andrew Curley will discuss coal, power, and contestation in the Navajo Nation. Details below & see https://t.co/hmdUj2kmI0 for how to join and details about upcoming events
New insights on how Covid-19 has facilitated the expansion of extractivist projects around the world, with deeply concerning effects on Indigenous Peoples and forests
JUST RELEASED TODAY: The 2020 #NYDFAssessment report on Goals 3 & 4 finds that massive planned infrastructure, mining, & other extractive projects threaten tropical forests while failing to serve local communities: https://t.co/SsYJAqanyw (1/2)
Fascinating new piece on investment and development in Guapinol, Honduras. Details the structure of US investment in extractive projects of Honduran elite, policy fights leading to protected area downgrading, and legal effects of resistance. ENG: https://t.co/s51ulAoYDC
Despite prices and fin risks, pending oil projects such as the E. African Crude Oil Pipeline are still moving forward around the world. @OxfamAmerica researchers present a new human rights impact assessment for the EACOP. Highlights: https://t.co/5GRYWiXnAT
Opinion: We need a new agenda of infrastructure governance in the #Amazon and beyond, one that emphasizes the flourishing of humans and environments, involves affected populations, and addresses equity.
Co-authors @TonyBebbington, @avecitach, et al.
https://t.co/S94hFpS03M
Sungai Utik, Borneo, shows the benefit of local and Indigenous community forest management but also the arduous process of securing rights and the desperate need to scale
https://t.co/qJyfEMLvBf
Mining companies in Indonesia walking away from abandoned mine sites without infilling pits, creating drowning hazard. 2009 Mining Law necessitates pre-payment for these activities, yet there is rarely follow through or accountability
https://t.co/363aaD4ATb