ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Politics of Conservation and Unequal Ecological Exchange in European Peripheries
GreenFrontier will radically transform understandings of how strict protection of nature remakes human-environment relations in Europe’s marginal areas by developing a novel field of inquiry - political ecology of conservation frontiers. It breaks new grounds from research on frontier commodities by showing that uneven power relations within the EU’s conservation vision create a new resource – wilderness, essential for future green growth. The project’s pioneering and high-risk research design combines approaches from three disciplines –anthropology, history and politics. Its main research question is: How does a green growth vision based on strict protection of biodiversity affect…
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