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Very happy to be a part of this new paper with such an inspiring group of colleagues. H.B. Stokland, @alicevadrot.bsky.social, E.S. Barron, S. Beck, M.R. Emery, R. Lidskog, T. Maas, @jaspermontana.bsky.social , C. Sandström, M. Stenseke, A. Stirling, P. Stoett, @estherturnhout.bsky.social

Making global environmental assessments fit for future challenges

Global environmental assessments (GEAs) provide authoritative expert knowledge on environmental issues for an international audience. Demand for GEAs …

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Happy to have successfully defended my thesis!

Natuurbeschermers en duurzaamheidscampaigners kritiseren gevestigde orde onvoldoende stelt prof. @estherturnhout.bsky.social. Maatschappij is in greep van door gevestigde orde geponeerde valse tegenstellingen als "wil je eten of natuur". Natuurbeweging zou strategie moeten ontwikkelen tegen ecocide.

Voor iederen die nu op @ipbes.net zit of #ipbes12 volgt en informatie te delen heeft over business and biodiversity - vertel het aan Tamar Stelling @decorrespondent.nl decorrespondent.nl/16711/oproep...

Oproep: hoe redt een bedrijf de natuur?

Is elke bedrijfsactiviteit verenigbaar met natuurbehoud? Tegen welke dilemma’s loop jij aan op het biodiversiteit-versus-bedrijfsvoeringvlak? Zie je steeds dezelfde hobbels waar aspirant-groene ondern...

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Hele mooie rapportage van @gemmavenhuizen.bsky.social @nrc.nl over de #nederlandsejeugdbondvoornatuurstudie #njn - al 105 jaar jong. Ik gun elke jongere zo'n vereniging. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Het ‘schoonste genot’ wordt al een eeuw beleefd in de natuur, tussen de vogels en de planten

Natuurstudie: Tijdens de excursies en kampen van vereniging NJN kunnen jongeren al sinds 1920 de natuur verkennen. Die liefde blijft altijd in stand. „Bij de NJN voelde ik me veel gelukkiger.”

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Carrie Fisher was the blueprint. Protect your people. Call out the predators. #RESIST

Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively? Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7 cup.org/4hZNlcX

🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers! Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025 Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills! Please share widely!

First article from my PhD is out! ‘Provincialising Foot-and-Mouth Disease: The Construction of the African Buffalo as Disease Reservoir in Botswana, 1961–1976’, with Andreas Weber and @estherturnhout.bsky.social

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We’ve posted 2 new #openaccess articles in @globalenvironment.bsky.social: W. van Engelen et al., ‘African Buffalo as Disease Reservoir in Botswana’; & a review of R.K. Barman’s ‘River, Society and Culture’ (@livunipress.bsky.social). Both here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpge/0/0. #envhist

We will be teaching our Transformative Research PhD course again on 20 April to 1 May. After four really succesful episodes, I think I can safely say that this course is a unique experience.

We think that this might not be possible without collaborating with civil society to “follow the money” from the ground up. @forestsandfinance.bsky.social @globalwitness.org @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social @greenpeace.eu @foeeurope.bsky.social @milieudefensie.bsky.social @ran.org

🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested? Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North. 🧵

"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"

I’m Captain Ahab and I Say We Must Never Transition Away from a Whale-Based Energy Industry

When I heard that the globalist oligarchs and fat cats in the Washington marshland were conspiring to invest in alternative, non-whale-based energy...

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Let’s rethink how we relate knowledge, care, and policy relevance. Can we build science-policy interfaces that are more plural, reflective, and just?

Prof. Dr. Esther Turnhout (@estherturnhout.bsky.social) , Professor of Knowledge, Transformation & Society TU Twente, explains why urban agriculture such as Food Park Amsterdam is of great importance in today's times.   See also @voedselpark.bsky.social 

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Listening to @estherturnhout.bsky.social talk about science and the global polycrisis at @uni-hamburg.de #inspiring

This is a really important & useful paper: the persistence of the idea that poverty causes biodiversity decline inhibits just and effective conservation. @upascual.bsky.social @estherturnhout.bsky.social @pettorelli.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Unveiling pervasive assumptions: moving beyond the poverty-biodiversity loss association in conservation

This paper reflects on the continued persistence of the idea in conservation research and practice that poverty drives biodiversity loss (the poverty-…

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What is a forest? Rather than singular objects, forests are made up of many ecosystems and relations. “The Forest Multiple,” our new special issue in Environment and Planning F, explores the varied & conflicting ways that forests take shape amid planetary change: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

She also highlights how producing knowledge about complex, evolving, and multi-scale systems such as forests requires navigating various scales of forest ecosystems. This involves “adjusting the macroscope.”

Do “Forests high on CO2” store more carbon?” In her article, Véra Ehrenstein @ehess.fr explores the collective efforts of scientists who address this question through forest ecosystem experiments and model simulations: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This text is part of our special issue “The Forest Multiple” with Environment and Planning F. Stay tuned for future posts about this collection. Also, check out co-author Esther’s talk at the Forest Multiple symposium and other episodes on Smart Forests Atlas: atlas.smartforests.net/en/radio/the...

Esther and Casey trace the long and colonial histories of science that are driven by optimisation and efficiency, which can foreclose other ways of “knowing, valuing, and living with the forests.”

This paper is part of our special issue “The Forest Multiple” with Environment and Planning F. You can also listen to co-author Naomi Millner’s related talk at our Forest Multiple symposium and other episodes in this playlist: atlas.smartforests.net/en/playlists...

While acknowledging that pluriversal potential can be provisional and precarious, the authors emphasise that drones could become part of projects and designs that resonate with Indigenous territorial rights and multispecies care.

In “Between the god-trick and pluriversal potential,” @naomimillner.bsky.social and Mónica Amador-Jimenez explore 4 different ways that drones contribute to “making forests” and discuss their potential as pluriversal technologies for social & ecological justice: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We are delighted to announce the launch of our project film Smart Forests 📽! The film documents ongoing research into the increasing digitalization of forest environments. You can watch it now on our website: smartforests.net/smart-forests-film.

In “Raising the Carbonized Forest,” @estherturnhout.bsky.social and Casey R Lynch discuss how science works as a “technology of singularization” by foregrounding forests as carbon storage mechanisms: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🌴 Grateful to share that I’ve been selected as one of the winners of the Geoforum 2024 Best Student Paper Award for my article: “Care narratives: Babassu breakers and mother palm trees” 🔗 Read: lnkd.in/d9U7rCYs 🔗 Award announcement: lnkd.in/dSv9mm63

‘Ik hoor nog weleens om me heen: wat ben je links geworden. Dat is een verkeerde aanname. Ik zei dit soort dingen al in de jaren zeventig. Toen was daar niets radicaal aan. Het is de samenleving die zo rechts is geworden, zo verschrikkelijk rechts.’ Jan Terlouw, 1931-2025