Ten years after Copenhagen: Reimagining climate change governance in urban areas

V Castán Broto, LK Westman - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, we take stock of the last decade of research on climate change governance in
urban areas since the 2009 conference in Copenhagen. Using a systematic evaluation of …

[HTML][HTML] Conceptualizing sand extractivism: Deconstructing an emerging resource frontier

A Bisht - The Extractive Industries and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Since the mid-twentieth century, the extraction and consumption of mineral aggregates (ie,
sand and gravel) has grown at a higher rate and on a larger scale than any other resource …

The real estate frontier

T Gillespie - International Journal of Urban and Regional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Africa's major cities are experiencing dramatic transformation as a result of growing real
estate investment. This article explores whether existing theories can explain the dynamics …

“Garbage is Gold”: Waste-based Commodity Frontiers, Modes of Valorization and Ecological Distribution Conflicts

S Schindler, F Demaria - Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Waste is increasingly viewed as a resource rather than an externality. However, new waste
management regimes must be introduced in order for value to be created, enhanced and …

Rethinking the geographies of finance for urban climate action

E Robin - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Research on the geographies of finance for urban climate action has generated important
insights into how climate agendas contribute to the financialisation of urban environments …

[HTML][HTML] Between pacification and dialogue: Critical lessons from Colombia's territorial peace

JM Díaz, H Staples, JM Kanai, M Lombard - Geoforum, 2021 - Elsevier
Colombia's peace process prioritised conflict-torn geographies ostensibly suffering from
historical state absence. We examine the origins and afterlives of this' territorial'peace using …

What counts as infrastructural labour? Community action as waste work in South Africa

K Stokes, M Lawhon - Area Development and Policy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Studies of waste work have largely focused on labourers who collect and process materials
in exchange for money, including informal waste reclaimers and those now working …

Urbanization without guarantees: articulation, rentier capitalism and occupancy on the agrarian urban frontier

T Cowan - Urban Geography, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article engages with the work of Stuart Hall to examine conditions of agrarian city-
making on India's urban frontier. The article draws on Hall's writings on articulation and …

Efficiency in waste collection markets: Changing relationships between firms, informal workers, and the state in urban India

A Luthra - Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Although recent scholarship has provided rich accounts of waste management privatization
in urban India, the origins of the policy models that informed privatization remain …

GEOGRAPHIES OF EXCLUSION: Reproducing Dispossession and Erasure within a Waste Picker Organization in Mumbai

S Sharma - International Journal of Urban and Regional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A rich seam of waste scholarship already addresses the exclusion faced by informal waste
workers as cities in the global South undergo spatial transformations to become 'world …