Wolfram Dressler

The landmark Escazu Agreement: An opportunity to integrate democracy, human rights, and transboundary conservation

Sofia Lopez-Cubillos, Lina Munoz-Avila, Leslie A Roberson, Andres F Suarez-Castro, Jose Manuel Ochoa-Quintero, Renato Crouzeilles, Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, Jonathan Rhodes, Wolfram Dressler, Maria Jose Martinez-Harms, Rebecca K Runting

Journal article  |  2021  |  CONSERVATION LETTERS

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is one of the world's most biodiverse regions, but this diversity is threatened by the overe..

Between a rock and a hard place: The burdens of uncontrolled fire for smallholders across the tropics

Rachel Carmenta, Federico Cammelli, Wolfram Dressler, Camila Verbicaro, Julie G Zaehringer

Journal article  |  2021  |  World Development

Once fire-resistant rainforests are becoming fire prone. Uncontrolled fires reflect new ecologies of the Anthropocene, driven by i..

Storytelling climate change-Causality and temporality in the REDD plus regime in Papua New Guinea

Sophie Pascoe, Wolfram Dressler, Monica Minnegal

Journal article  |  2021  |  GEOFORUM

Climate change is shaped and understood through assumptions of causality and temporality that enable and constrain feasible approa..

Recalibrating burdens of blame: Anti-swidden politics and green governance in the Philippine Uplands

Wolfram H Dressler, Will Smith, Christian A Kull, Rachel Carmenta, Juan M Pulhin

Journal article  |  2021  |  GEOFORUM

In Southeast Asia, the presence of cleared and burned forests has long evoked deep emotions, symbolism and representations that po..

Violent atmospheres: Political ecologies of livelihoods and crises in Southeast Asia

Mary Mostafanezhad, Wolfram Dressler

Journal article  |  2021  |  GEOFORUM

Violent atmospheres are volatile mixes of socio-political and economic processes as well as biophysical ruptures that encompass su..

China's Blue Economy: A State Project of Modernisation

Michael Fabinyi, Annie Wu, Sallie Lau, Tabitha Mallory, Kate Barclay, Kathleen Walsh, Wolfram Dressler

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENT & DEVELOPMENT

The blue economy is a globally emerging concept for ocean governance that seeks to tap the economic potential of the oceans in env..

Sustaining livelihoods in a palm oil enclave: Differentiated gendered responses in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Tessa D Toumbourou, Wolfram H Dressler

Journal article  |  2021  |  ASIA PACIFIC VIEWPOINT

With large tracts of forested land planned for, or already converted to, industrial palm oil concessions, there is a need to bette..

Defending lands and forests: NGO histories, everyday struggles, and extraordinary violence in the Philippines

Wolfram Dressler

Journal article  |  2021  |  CRITICAL ASIAN STUDIES

Across the Global South, authoritarian rule and extractivist agendas have intensified the harassment and murder of activists prote..

From conversion to conservation to carbon: The changing policy discourse on mangrove governance and use in the Philippines

Andrew M Song, Wolfram H Dressler, Paula Satizabal, Michael Fabinyi

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES

The current focus on mangroves as key ecosystems in mitigating the impacts of climate change has largely neglected the livelihoods..

Quarantining activism: COVID-19, frontline defenders and intensifying extractivism in the Philippines

W Dressler

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Political Ecology

How does the intersection of authoritarian populism and a global pandemic reinforce the suppression of human rights, dismantle env..