Opinie: basisinkomen zou een uitkomst zijn voor boeren! Margriet Goris en ik hebben vandaag een opinie stuk in de Trouw waarin we een natuur basisinkomen voor boeren bepleiten om meerdere urgente vliegen in één klap te slaan Zie: www.trouw.nl/opinie/opini...

Opinie: Basisinkomen zou een uitkomst zijn voor boeren

Boeren leveren met natuurbeheer een belangrijke publieke dienst. Daar moet een stabiel leefbaar inkomen tegenover staan, stellen Margriet Goris en Bram Büscher van de Wageningen Universiteit.

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Very honoured and excited to join @ieadeparis.bsky.social next academic year!

IEA de Paris@ieadeparis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 Welcome to the first Fellows of the Paris IAS for 2026! They are selected for a 10-month research residency starting this September (FIAS) : Will Bateman Bram Büscher Carola Hein Maurizio Isabella Guilherme Lassance Los Santos Abreu Ya-Wen Lei Guillaume Sauvé Fredrik Stiernstedt #IEAParis

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m.... Great listening to @brambuscher.bsky.social deconstruct the challenges faced by environmental activists in a post truth world. Definitely worth a listen. #climatecrisis #politics #capitalism #environment #change #convivialconservation

The conservation sector must speak truth to power, says political ecologist

Podcast Episode · Mongabay Newscast · 31 March · 1hr 1min

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This week on Mongabay’s Newscast, host @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social is joined by political ecologist @brambuscher.bsky.social to discuss why conservation efforts must understand and "challenge the power structures" to succeed. Listen to this new episode! 🎧️ mongabay.cc/q3Sh2g 🎧️

Meaningful conservation demands truth, not just facts, says political ecologist

The people and policies that control how humans treat the natural world are increasingly dominated by a small class of elite political entities and corporations, argues our guest, political ecologist…

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I appreciate much of @ipbesfr.bsky.social but this business and biodiversity nonsense goes beyond 'missing the point'. It is simplistic, ineffective & dangerous As long as we continue to talk about 'business' when the issue is 'capitalism', nothing will change. It only creates empty virtue signals

IPBES@ipbes.net · 6mo ago

When you hear business and biodiversity, which of these images resonates most with you, and why? The #BizBiodiversity Assessment explores the many ways economic activities interact with nature and nature’s contributions to people. 📖 More about the report: ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG #IPBES12

Update on the 2026 PE Spring school: I am extremely pleased that Prof Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambridge) and Prof. Iva Peša (University of Groningen) have agreed to join the spring school as instructors Together with Annah Zhu, Sumit Vij and Erik Swyngedouw, this makes for a stellar line-up!

Bram Büscher@brambuscher.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Please consider joining our 2026 Political Ecology spring school! Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism ▶️ 13-17 April 2026 ▶️ Wageningen With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others! wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...

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!

Bram Büscher@brambuscher.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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! @pollenetwork.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social

What do market thinking and centralized governance mean for academic freedom, public values, and the position of the social sciences? In this Letter to the editor, more than a hundred employees of @w-u-r.bsky.social argue for a pause and fundamental reflection. www.resource-online.nl/index.php/20...

Reorganizing education: What’s at stake? - Resource online

Letter to the editor: 'Increasingly, we are governed as if the university were a firm: steered by measurable outputs.'

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Please consider joining our 2026 Political Ecology spring school! Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism ▶️ 13-17 April 2026 ▶️ Wageningen With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others! wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...

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! @pollenetwork.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social

Please consider joining our 2026 Political Ecology spring school! Planetary Political Ecologies: Environmental disasters, conflicts and possibilities in & beyond capitalism ▶️ 13-17 April 2026 ▶️ Wageningen With Annah Zhu, Erik Swyngedouw, Sumit Vij & others! wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta...

CfP @pollenetwork.bsky.social 2026: Conservation without Liberal Reason: Unsustainable Virtues, Illiberal Technopolitics, and Residual Histories. Organizers: Jim Igoe & Bram Büscher More info: pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/... We look forward to proposals & meeting in Barcelona!

Some more days before submission deadline on 5 December - please join us if you can!

Bram Büscher@brambuscher.bsky.social · 10mo ago

CfP @pollenetwork.bsky.social 2026: Conservation without Liberal Reason: Unsustainable Virtues, Illiberal Technopolitics, and Residual Histories. Organizers: Jim Igoe & Bram Büscher More info: pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/... We look forward to proposals & meeting in Barcelona!

"The wealthiest 0.1% emit an average of 2.2 tonnes of CO2 every day, equivalent to the weight of a rhinoceros or an SUV. A citizen of Somalia burns off just 82 grams of CO2 each day, barely the mass of a single tomato or half a cup of rice." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam

Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%

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For those in Roskilde, Denmark next week - please join!

CfP @pollenetwork.bsky.social 2026: Conservation without Liberal Reason: Unsustainable Virtues, Illiberal Technopolitics, and Residual Histories. Organizers: Jim Igoe & Bram Büscher More info: pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/... We look forward to proposals & meeting in Barcelona!

#POLLEN"2026 panels are now live. What happens now is a vital part of the preparation Hundreds of potential participants will be sending in their ideas to the hundreds of different convenors. It is a rich moment of exchange and interaction. Please spread the word. shorturl.at/fCGhB

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

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Was great indeed to do this piece on The Value of Political Ecology in Biodiversity Conservation for Nature Reviews biodiversity with a great group of colleagues. Next time in person @jaredmargulies.bsky.social ?

Jared Margulies@jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I wish this could have been an interactive conversation because its a wonderful group of folks, but nevertheless I enjoyed taking some time to reflect on questions related to the value of political ecology for biodiversity conservation with @brambuscher.bsky.social and others rdcu.be/eEKqA

2012 #ivory - Al Shabab vibes here when naive conservationists jumped on the idea environmental protection = global security. It doesn’t - just take one look at the Military Emissions Gap project. #Militarisation harms the environment www.politico.eu/article/russ...

From Kyiv to the Suwałki Gap, bogs return as Europe’s defensive shield

Restoring the EU’s drained bogs would stop both Russian tanks and planet-warming pollution.

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We are in the middle of it.

Another year, another "crucial global summit". Except that no summit before has actually gone to the roots of the climate crisis and have altogether had near-zero impact. We need to drastically rethink global environmental governance. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Climate is our biggest war’, warns CEO of Cop30 ahead of UN summit in Brazil

Negotiators doubt countries’ financial and environmental commitment as military and trade wars divert attention

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Een paar kritische kanttekeningen bij het recente pleidooi van de rectoren van de Nederlandse universiteiten over academische vrijheid: www.trouw.nl/opinie/opini... @brambuscher.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social @remcobreuker.bsky.social @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social @rensbod.bsky.social

Opinie: Universiteiten, jullie beperken ook zelf de academische vrijheid

De rectoren negeren hun eigen rol in de aantasting van de academische vrijheid. Zo zijn marktprincipes de universiteit in toenemende mate gaan regeren, schrijven Joost Jongerden, Bram Büscher en Han W...

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📣 New Paper on #ConvivialConservation in Biological Conservation, brilliantly led by @judithekrauss.bsky.social We argue for greater transdisciplinary research to develop convivial forms of human-predator #coexistence. It’s #OA and you can read it here ⬇️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Coexistence beyond disciplinary silos: Five dimensions of analysis for more convivial human-predator interactions

Understanding human-predator interactions has been a central goal of conservation for decades, yet many previous efforts have approached this challeng…

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This was horrible, but I'm afraid we havent seen close to rock bottom yet. If post-truth becomes the norm, nothing is out of limits. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump’s ambush of South Africa’s president shows how low the US has fallen | Justice Malala

Instead of embarrassing Cyril Ramaphosa, the US president’s ‘gotcha’ moment illuminates the fact-free reality show that is Trump’s America

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Koot, S 2025 Book review of Van Beemen, O. Ondernemers in het wild: Het ontluisterende verhaal van een club witte weldoeners in Afrika. J of Political Ecology 32(1). journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/ @pollenetwork.bsky.social @brambuscher.bsky.social Book is in Dutch German & French

New article: Authoritarianism isn’t just chaos—it’s a power reshuffle. Under Bolsonaro, a “new elite” tore down protections, fueling socioecological crises while hiding their own downfall. 🔥🌍 #Brazil #Authoritarianism onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Upsetting the Double Movement? Elite Schisms and Bolsonaro's Brazil in the Context of Global Authoritarian Capitalism

The brazen political antics and mystifying logics accompanying the contemporary rise of authoritarianism have garnered much interest in academic and popular media. A key question is how to make sense...

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The UN’s new biodiversity deal aims to protect 30% of Earth by 2030—but does it tackle the root causes of nature’s destruction? Without addressing economic expansion, pollution & systemic issues, conservation alone won’t be enough. #Biodiversity #NatureCrisis theconversation.com/biodiversity...

Biodiversity treaty: UN deal fails to address the root causes of nature’s destruction

Global summits to arrest Earth’s deteriorating health look increasingly farcical.

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Right, one of the biggest 'free' market capitalists believes that 'free-market thinking' is under threat and must become the official opinion of his newspaper Seems Bezos is hellbent on ensuring his newspaper's creed 'democracy dies in darkness' becomes reality. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

Washington Post opinion editor departs as Bezos pushes to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’

Opinion editor leaves as Amazon executive and newspaper owner says ‘viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others’

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