Fields of Gold critically examines the history, ideas, and political struggles surrounding the
financialization of farmland. In particular, Madeleine Fairbairn focuses on developments in …

Nearly 0.8 million hectares of land were burned in the North American Pacific Northwest
(PNW) over two weeks under record-breaking fuel aridity and winds during the extraordinary …

I argue that growth in private equity and publicly traded ownership of US for-profit colleges
has created new shareholder-value pressures for schools to maximize returns for investors …

Forest management choices offer significant potential to mitigate global climate change and
biodiversity loss. To illuminate tradeoffs relevant to policymakers, forest sector stakeholders …

Starting in the mid 2000s, a financial asset management company and institutional investors
began to invest in timberlands in British Columbia, Canada's most western province. In a …

We use a database of property tax records for 13.6 million acres representing every parcel of
privately owned timberland in 48 rural Alabama counties to test two hypotheses inspired by …

Purpose: This empirical study investigates whether corporate cash holdings impact on firm
value and whether this relationship is moderated by managerial ability. With the proliferation …

Financialization–the growing presence and influence of financial entities in the global
economy–has emerged as a key concept in explaining contemporary socio-economic …

Over the past 30 years, ownership changes in the United States have affected more than 50
million acres of timberland. Corporations in the US forest products industry either sold off …

In 1873, on the edge of empire, over 800,000 hectares of land was reserved as payment for
a future rail line on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. This land was granted to the …