David Brown
@browndee17.bsky.social
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Researching rural communities, landscape regeneration and just transitions at the Centre for Landscape Regeneration.
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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...
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futureeconscot.bsky.social
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 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
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planetarypraxis.bsky.social
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...
Front page of the paper ‘Community-led landscape regeneration: A review of and framework for engagement in restoration initiatives’ published in Ambio by David Brown and Jennifer Gabrys (2025).
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planetarypraxis.bsky.social
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/...
Front page of “This Machine Kills CO2”: Planting a Trillion Trees and Mobilizing Forests as Technologies” by Jennifer Gabrys, published in Science, Technology, & Human Values.
browndee17.bsky.social
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...
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bcoolsaet.bsky.social
📢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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platform1983.bsky.social
🧵 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?
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triofrancos.bsky.social
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
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pkashwan.bsky.social
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
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nicholasbeuret.bsky.social
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.