From the Arctic to the South China Sea, states are vying to secure sovereign rights over vast
maritime stretches, undersea continental plates, shifting ice flows, airspace, and the subsoil …

Southeast Asia has long promoted social forestry (SF) in conservation areas, fallow forests,
tree plantations, areas in timber concessions and locally managed agro-forest systems, with …

Conservation governance is increasingly globalized, particularly supply chain polices
implemented by multinational corporations. However, the ways that local elite narratives and …

Sand frontiers all over the world are expanding owing to the growing demand for
construction sand. While several scholarly interventions are devoted to accounting for the …

Sikkim is a geopolitically sensitive frontier state in India sharing borders with Bhutan, China
and Nepal. As distinctions between urban and rural dissolve across the Himalaya, concrete …

Low-carbon mega-infrastructures constitute one of the main institutional responses to
climate change in India's agrarian settings, as they are imagined around features …

This article examines how variegated local and transnational interactions are reconfiguring
Myanmar's largest city of Yangon. We do this through an analytical focus on frontiers and an …

Renewables are imagined in India around features of 'greenness' and 'cleanness' and are
presented as the modern pathway towards sustainable development and unlimited growth …

Scholarship on resource frontiers has often privileged moments of discovery and sites of
spectacular infrastructure and extraction. Yet smallholders can alter socio-ecological …

Imaginaries of empty, verdant lands have long motivated agricultural frontier expansion.
Today, climate change, food insecurity, and economic promise are invigorating new …