Simon Batterbury
@simonbatterbury.bsky.social
Day job: Environmental Studies Prof@ Melbourne www.simonbatterbury.net Editor, Journal of Political Ecology since 2003 https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe. Political ecology, critical minerals, New Caledonia-Kanaky, community bike workshops
Batterbury, SPJ. 2025. Book review of Nicole George. (2025). Between Rights and Rightfulness: Gender and violence in the Pacific Islands. Pacific Dynamics. 9(2), 1405-1408. doi.org/10.26021/16135
Book review Nicole George. (2025). Between Rights and Rightfulness: Gender and violence in the Pacific Islands.
This book is a comparative study of an underreported issue: violence against women in the Pacific,
with a focus on New Caledonia, Bougainville and Fiji. George’s major message, developed from many
yea...
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November 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Batterbury, SPJ. 2025. Book review of Nicole George. (2025). Between Rights and Rightfulness: Gender and violence in the Pacific Islands. Pacific Dynamics. 9(2), 1405-1408. doi.org/10.26021/16135
WeCycle www.wecycle-melbourne.com won the City of Darebin Sustainability Award 2025 [I am holding it]. Recognition of years of supplying 1000s of free bikes to people in need. The Shed in Batman Park is also a player, leased from Council.
November 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
WeCycle www.wecycle-melbourne.com won the City of Darebin Sustainability Award 2025 [I am holding it]. Recognition of years of supplying 1000s of free bikes to people in need. The Shed in Batman Park is also a player, leased from Council.
Chakori S & Batterbury SPJ (2025) Degrowth urban transitions: a tool library case study in Australia. Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy 4(2), 428-445. doi.org/10.3138/jccp...
Degrowth Urban Transitions: A Tool Library Case Study in Australia | Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy
Catalyzing sustainability transitions occurs at different scales, from macro-level policy changes to micro-level adjustments of lifestyles. This study argues that socio-economic transformations are ef...
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October 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Chakori S & Batterbury SPJ (2025) Degrowth urban transitions: a tool library case study in Australia. Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy 4(2), 428-445. doi.org/10.3138/jccp...
E-bikes: www.9news.com.au/national/ebi... if half of those fined or stopped had oversized engines, what does this say about the restriction on having a 250w motor and such an incredibly low speed limit of 25 km per hour assisted? Won't work in country with a good road network & big distances.
Hundreds of e-bike riders fined for having overpowered cycles
Hundreds of e-bike owners in Victoria have been fined for having overpowered and illegal cycles.
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September 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
E-bikes: www.9news.com.au/national/ebi... if half of those fined or stopped had oversized engines, what does this say about the restriction on having a 250w motor and such an incredibly low speed limit of 25 km per hour assisted? Won't work in country with a good road network & big distances.
reneweconomy.com.au/woodside-gas... Great article by colleagues, for Australian readers. Government has issued major climate plans today, but at the same time, has approved a massive Woodside gas project expansion in NW Australia. Hypocritical.
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September 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
reneweconomy.com.au/woodside-gas... Great article by colleagues, for Australian readers. Government has issued major climate plans today, but at the same time, has approved a massive Woodside gas project expansion in NW Australia. Hypocritical.
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It’s TACO time👇
‘In April this year, China installed more solar power than Australia has in all its history. In one month.’ #Energy
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‘In April this year, China installed more solar power than Australia has in all its history. In one month.’ #Energy
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China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age
China has put its economic might behind renewable technologies in a desire to stop relying on imported fossil fuels.
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August 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
It’s TACO time👇
‘In April this year, China installed more solar power than Australia has in all its history. In one month.’ #Energy
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‘In April this year, China installed more solar power than Australia has in all its history. In one month.’ #Energy
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An article tiny.cc on ebikes in VIC Australia in @theageaustralia.bsky.social, where there is an effort to ban them on trains [as happened in the UK, v frustrating] because we had one battery fire, only allowed comments for few hours while I was out. So here are mine @theageaustralia.bsky.social
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An article tiny.cc on ebikes in VIC Australia in @theageaustralia.bsky.social, where there is an effort to ban them on trains [as happened in the UK, v frustrating] because we had one battery fire, only allowed comments for few hours while I was out. So here are mine @theageaustralia.bsky.social
Matthias presenting our book in New Caledonia-Kanaky, in the context of mining problems
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Conférence publique – Enjeux socio-économiques et avenir de la filière nickel en Nouvelle-Calédonie - Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie
Partager Facebook Twitter Linkedin L’Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie accueillera une conférence publique sur le thème des enjeux socio-économiques et de … Lire la suite →
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August 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Matthias presenting our book in New Caledonia-Kanaky, in the context of mining problems
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Brief thoughts on the so-called historic deal just struck for New Caledonian Kanaky sovereignty within the French state. It is very early days indeed mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/OLhhR3...
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July 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Brief thoughts on the so-called historic deal just struck for New Caledonian Kanaky sovereignty within the French state. It is very early days indeed mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/OLhhR3...
Please support WeCycle, my weekend volunteer job. You can be anonymous if you want but its a non-controversial local issue. Thanks. www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...
Support WeCycle: give a long community lease for the Pioneer's Retreat, Batman Park, Northcote - Online petition
We are asking you to sign this petition to support the granting of a long 'community' lease in Batman Park, Northcote, VIC to WeCycle (https://www.wecycle-melbourne.com/), who provide bikes to people ...
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June 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Please support WeCycle, my weekend volunteer job. You can be anonymous if you want but its a non-controversial local issue. Thanks. www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...
Hugh Grant's 'pet peeves' (eg leafblowers) were so good that I wrote some of my own on my recent visit to the UK. Changing stock in M&S Food obviously being the standout, and loss of BBC Sounds. simonbatterbury.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/c...
Changes in the UK, 2025
I was in the UK for early 2024, doing my British Academy project on community bike workshops. I left just after the startling Labour victory in July 2024. Here is my report. I returned for 6 weeks …
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May 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Hugh Grant's 'pet peeves' (eg leafblowers) were so good that I wrote some of my own on my recent visit to the UK. Changing stock in M&S Food obviously being the standout, and loss of BBC Sounds. simonbatterbury.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/c...
This is hilarious if you follow events in New Caledonia. Valls is a rep of Macron's trying to sort out the mess of governance in NC, a territory where Melanesians are mostly seeking independence from France @newcaledonia.bsky.social
May 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is hilarious if you follow events in New Caledonia. Valls is a rep of Macron's trying to sort out the mess of governance in NC, a territory where Melanesians are mostly seeking independence from France @newcaledonia.bsky.social
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Special Section, 'Journal of Political Ecology': 'Indigenous Voices: Self-determination in mine site transitions and mine closure governance across nations', edited by Sarah Holcombe, Rebecca Hall and Arn Keeling [1/6] Rather special because all papers authored with Indigenous elders
May 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Special Section, 'Journal of Political Ecology': 'Indigenous Voices: Self-determination in mine site transitions and mine closure governance across nations', edited by Sarah Holcombe, Rebecca Hall and Arn Keeling [1/6] Rather special because all papers authored with Indigenous elders
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Ignore Trump for a moment, and all the other calamities going on around the world. Climate change is still the biggest threat to us all, and we are in danger of ignoring it.
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It's too easy to forget that climate change is ongoing - and is destroying our chances of life.
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April 20, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Ignore Trump for a moment, and all the other calamities going on around the world. Climate change is still the biggest threat to us all, and we are in danger of ignoring it.
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Kowasch, M., Batterbury, S.P.J., Baumann, C. et al. 2025 Not in my backyard? Prospects, problems and perceptions of lithium extraction in Austria. Energ Sustain Soc 15, 21 doi.org/10.1186/s137...
Article from research project on political geology and CRM miningbeyondhotair.org
Article from research project on political geology and CRM miningbeyondhotair.org
Not in my backyard? Prospects, problems and perceptions of lithium extraction in Austria - Energy, Sustainability and Society
Background The European Green Deal has rekindled interest in the mining of critical raw materials within Europe’s borders. The Weinebene lithium deposit, near Wolfsberg (Austria), deemed uneconomic as...
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April 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Kowasch, M., Batterbury, S.P.J., Baumann, C. et al. 2025 Not in my backyard? Prospects, problems and perceptions of lithium extraction in Austria. Energ Sustain Soc 15, 21 doi.org/10.1186/s137...
Article from research project on political geology and CRM miningbeyondhotair.org
Article from research project on political geology and CRM miningbeyondhotair.org
Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University
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Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University
Co-published by Post Office Press (POP) and Open Humanities Press, this experimental booklet brings together a series of short reflections from members of the Radical Open Access Collective (ROAC) on ...
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Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University
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Tornel, C., (2025) “Review of Lang et al. (Eds.). 2024. The geopolitics of green colonialism: Global justice and ecosocial transitions”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1). journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...
Review of Lang et al. (Eds.). 2024. The geopolitics of green colonialism: Global justice and ecosocial transitions
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February 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Tornel, C., (2025) “Review of Lang et al. (Eds.). 2024. The geopolitics of green colonialism: Global justice and ecosocial transitions”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1). journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...
Sam Staddon, Floriane Clement & Bimbika Sijapati Basnett (eds.). 2023. "Political ecology of professional practice: plurality and possibilities in environmental governance", Special Section of the Journal of Political Ecology 30, 32.
Political ecologies of professional practice: Plurality and possibilities in environmental governance, Introduction to the Special Section
This Special Section explores the plurality of professional practice in the environment and development sector, and centers the possibilities this offers for more transformative and just futures. We b...
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February 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Sam Staddon, Floriane Clement & Bimbika Sijapati Basnett (eds.). 2023. "Political ecology of professional practice: plurality and possibilities in environmental governance", Special Section of the Journal of Political Ecology 30, 32.
Sullivan KM & S Randle (eds) 2024. Water in short supply. Spec Section, J of Political Ecology, 31 972-1123 @pollenetwork.bsky.social @saydrandle.bsky.social
Sullivan KM 2024 Governing water in the US West: Introduction to 'Water in short supply' Spec Section. J of Political Ecology 31 972-993.
Sullivan KM 2024 Governing water in the US West: Introduction to 'Water in short supply' Spec Section. J of Political Ecology 31 972-993.
FERC, hydropower, and tribal rights: Confrontations at the Little Colorado River
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is well positioned to help advance the United States' clean energy transition through their management of energy projects. One obstacle to achieving the...
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January 31, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Sullivan KM & S Randle (eds) 2024. Water in short supply. Spec Section, J of Political Ecology, 31 972-1123 @pollenetwork.bsky.social @saydrandle.bsky.social
Sullivan KM 2024 Governing water in the US West: Introduction to 'Water in short supply' Spec Section. J of Political Ecology 31 972-993.
Sullivan KM 2024 Governing water in the US West: Introduction to 'Water in short supply' Spec Section. J of Political Ecology 31 972-993.