Mckenzie F Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 119063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mckenzie F Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mckenzie F |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois Department of Natural Resources |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4649-3843 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Perceived equity dimensions of agricultural carbon markets in the US Midwest
Public and private sectors are developing initiatives for carbon capture to mitigate climate change and meet net-zero emissions pledges. Capital markets facilitating the trading of credits for soil organic carbon have the potential to sequester carbon and provide monetary benefits to farmers, but critics contend this approach could exacerbate inequalities among farmers. We use recognition and distributive justice frames to analyze farmer percepti…
Market approaches to sequester soil organic carbon on farms: Justifications and Suggested Transformations From Embedded Market Actors
Everything we do matters: Contesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in rural Iowa through insurgent planning
This in-depth case study examines the grassroots movement that coalesced between 2014-2019 to contest the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in Iowa. We investigate how Iowa organizers from the Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition, Mississippi Stand, and Little Creek Camp employed diverse actions to resist DAPL including participation in the Iowa Utilities Board permitting process, a legal challenge, protests, and sabotage. Drawing on data collection …
Governing after Farc: Environmental peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia
We examine the environment as a mechanism for building substantial integration in Colombia. In environmental peacebuilding, substantial integration is a positive peace dimension characterized by trans-societal links that foster social cohesion. Employing data from the Amazonian Department of Caquetá, we argue that the Government of Colombia is pursuing a peacebuilding approach that impedes opportunities to forge an inclusive social order. Instead…
The spatial and scalar politics of a just energy transition in Illinois
Illinois passed the Energy Transition Act (i.e., the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act or CEJA) in 2021, which established clean energy mandates with an emphasis on social equity. We examine CEJA and related policies to understand the politics of Illinois' energy transition. While CEJA has been praised as an approach to a just transition, critics argue that it exacerbated Illinois' rural-urban dichotomy by distributing benefits to urban areas define…
Climate change and peacebuilding: Sub-Themes of an Emerging Research Agenda
Climate change is having profound effects on global security and peacebuilding efforts. While existing research has mainly focused on the link between climate change and conflict, it has largely overlooked the complex interplay between climate change, conflict-affected states and peacebuilding. Climate change exacerbates existing vulnerabilities in conflict-affected societies by adding stress to livelihoods and negatively impacting food, water an…
Conceptualizing resilience within environmental peacebuilding
Communities at Risk for Mobilization: Neoliberal Governance and the (un)Contentious Politics of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Rural Illinois
Doubling down on Dapl: The contentious politics of pipeline governance in Illinois
This article analyzes the permitting proceeding for the capacity expansion of the Dakota Access and Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipelines in Illinois. Drawing on field research undertaken between 2018–2021, we examine how a grassroots-led coalition of climate activists – Save Our Illinois Land (SOIL) – navigated the Illinois Commerce Commission’s institutional context to oppose regulatory approval. We argue that SOIL mobilized procedural aspects of…
The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research
Interest in the intersections of environmental issues, peace and conflict has surged in recent years. Research on the topic has developed along separate research streams, which broadened the knowledge base considerably, but hardly interact across disciplinary, methodological, epistemological and ontological silos. Our forum addresses this gap by bringing into conversation six research streams on the environment, peace and conflict: environmental …
Local engagement in environmental peacebuilding: Protected area development as a pathway to peace in Afghanistan
This article interrogates local engagement in protected area development as a mechanism for peacebuilding in Afghanistan. Using interviews with representatives from the Band-e-Amir Protected Area Committee, I argue that protected area engagement produced mixed outcomes. In one sense, local engagement generated confidence that democratic processes introduced through governance reforms could transform power structures and resolve conflict. Yet, the…
Intrastate environmental peacebuilding: A review of the literature
The Dakota Access Pipeline in Illinois: Participation, power, and institutional design in United States critical energy infrastructure governance
Invasive Species in Post-2020 Global Environmental Politics
As goods and people more rapidly traverse our interconnected world, invasive alien species (IAS) are increasingly frequent, ecologically damaging, economically significant, and culturally concerning. Through examinations of IAS, global environmental politics (GEP) scholars can more deeply engage long-standing and newly emerging research problems within the three areas of global governance, global political economy, and environmental security. Fir…
Fighting for black stone: Extractive conflict, institutional change and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone
Environmental governance reform-especially in the minerals sector-has featured prominently in Sierra Leone's peacebuilding agenda. While reform has enhanced environmental governance capacity in ways that foster peace, it has also exacerbated conflict over the redistribution of extractive rights. This article examines one such conflict over tantalite in northern Sierra Leone. In the chiefdom of Sella Limba, violence erupted as local landowners and…
Constructing a crisis: The effect of resource curse discourse on extractive governance in Ghana
Who governs here? Informal resource extraction, state enforcement, and conflict in Ghana
Strong (green) institutions in weak states: Environmental governance and human (in)security in the Global South
Institutional change in a conflict setting: Afghanistan’s Environment Law
This article examines the development of Afghanistan’s Environment Law to explore the politics of institutional change in a conflict-affected context. Environment was catapulted to prominence in 2002 when it was included in the agenda for reconstruction under the new transitional government. Subsequent efforts to reconstitute Afghanistan’s environmental institutions culminated in the Environment Law written by the United Nations Environment Progr…
Network environmentalism: Citizen scientists as agents for environmental advocacy
Strong (green) institutions in weak states: Environmental governance and human (in)security in the Global South
Network environmentalism: Citizen scientists as agents for environmental advocacy
Who governs here? Informal resource extraction, state enforcement, and conflict in Ghana
The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research
Interest in the intersections of environmental issues, peace and conflict has surged in recent years. Research on the topic has developed along separate research streams, which broadened the knowledge base considerably, but hardly interact across disciplinary, methodological, epistemological and ontological silos. Our forum addresses this gap by bringing into conversation six research streams on the environment, peace and conflict: environmental …
The Dakota Access Pipeline in Illinois: Participation, power, and institutional design in United States critical energy infrastructure governance
Governing after Farc: Environmental peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia
We examine the environment as a mechanism for building substantial integration in Colombia. In environmental peacebuilding, substantial integration is a positive peace dimension characterized by trans-societal links that foster social cohesion. Employing data from the Amazonian Department of Caquetá, we argue that the Government of Colombia is pursuing a peacebuilding approach that impedes opportunities to forge an inclusive social order. Instead…
The spatial and scalar politics of a just energy transition in Illinois
Illinois passed the Energy Transition Act (i.e., the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act or CEJA) in 2021, which established clean energy mandates with an emphasis on social equity. We examine CEJA and related policies to understand the politics of Illinois' energy transition. While CEJA has been praised as an approach to a just transition, critics argue that it exacerbated Illinois' rural-urban dichotomy by distributing benefits to urban areas define…
Communities at Risk for Mobilization: Neoliberal Governance and the (un)Contentious Politics of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Rural Illinois
Doubling down on Dapl: The contentious politics of pipeline governance in Illinois
This article analyzes the permitting proceeding for the capacity expansion of the Dakota Access and Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipelines in Illinois. Drawing on field research undertaken between 2018–2021, we examine how a grassroots-led coalition of climate activists – Save Our Illinois Land (SOIL) – navigated the Illinois Commerce Commission’s institutional context to oppose regulatory approval. We argue that SOIL mobilized procedural aspects of…
Constructing a crisis: The effect of resource curse discourse on extractive governance in Ghana
Institutional change in a conflict setting: Afghanistan’s Environment Law
This article examines the development of Afghanistan’s Environment Law to explore the politics of institutional change in a conflict-affected context. Environment was catapulted to prominence in 2002 when it was included in the agenda for reconstruction under the new transitional government. Subsequent efforts to reconstitute Afghanistan’s environmental institutions culminated in the Environment Law written by the United Nations Environment Progr…
Market approaches to sequester soil organic carbon on farms: Justifications and Suggested Transformations From Embedded Market Actors
Climate change and peacebuilding: Sub-Themes of an Emerging Research Agenda
Climate change is having profound effects on global security and peacebuilding efforts. While existing research has mainly focused on the link between climate change and conflict, it has largely overlooked the complex interplay between climate change, conflict-affected states and peacebuilding. Climate change exacerbates existing vulnerabilities in conflict-affected societies by adding stress to livelihoods and negatively impacting food, water an…
Local engagement in environmental peacebuilding: Protected area development as a pathway to peace in Afghanistan
This article interrogates local engagement in protected area development as a mechanism for peacebuilding in Afghanistan. Using interviews with representatives from the Band-e-Amir Protected Area Committee, I argue that protected area engagement produced mixed outcomes. In one sense, local engagement generated confidence that democratic processes introduced through governance reforms could transform power structures and resolve conflict. Yet, the…
Invasive Species in Post-2020 Global Environmental Politics
As goods and people more rapidly traverse our interconnected world, invasive alien species (IAS) are increasingly frequent, ecologically damaging, economically significant, and culturally concerning. Through examinations of IAS, global environmental politics (GEP) scholars can more deeply engage long-standing and newly emerging research problems within the three areas of global governance, global political economy, and environmental security. Fir…
Fighting for black stone: Extractive conflict, institutional change and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone
Environmental governance reform-especially in the minerals sector-has featured prominently in Sierra Leone's peacebuilding agenda. While reform has enhanced environmental governance capacity in ways that foster peace, it has also exacerbated conflict over the redistribution of extractive rights. This article examines one such conflict over tantalite in northern Sierra Leone. In the chiefdom of Sella Limba, violence erupted as local landowners and…
Network environmentalism: Citizen scientists as agents for environmental advocacy
Institutional change in a conflict setting: Afghanistan’s Environment Law
This article examines the development of Afghanistan’s Environment Law to explore the politics of institutional change in a conflict-affected context. Environment was catapulted to prominence in 2002 when it was included in the agenda for reconstruction under the new transitional government. Subsequent efforts to reconstitute Afghanistan’s environmental institutions culminated in the Environment Law written by the United Nations Environment Progr…
Who governs here? Informal resource extraction, state enforcement, and conflict in Ghana
Strong (green) institutions in weak states: Environmental governance and human (in)security in the Global South
Constructing a crisis: The effect of resource curse discourse on extractive governance in Ghana
Intrastate environmental peacebuilding: A review of the literature
The Dakota Access Pipeline in Illinois: Participation, power, and institutional design in United States critical energy infrastructure governance
Invasive Species in Post-2020 Global Environmental Politics
As goods and people more rapidly traverse our interconnected world, invasive alien species (IAS) are increasingly frequent, ecologically damaging, economically significant, and culturally concerning. Through examinations of IAS, global environmental politics (GEP) scholars can more deeply engage long-standing and newly emerging research problems within the three areas of global governance, global political economy, and environmental security. Fir…
Fighting for black stone: Extractive conflict, institutional change and peacebuilding in Sierra Leone
Environmental governance reform-especially in the minerals sector-has featured prominently in Sierra Leone's peacebuilding agenda. While reform has enhanced environmental governance capacity in ways that foster peace, it has also exacerbated conflict over the redistribution of extractive rights. This article examines one such conflict over tantalite in northern Sierra Leone. In the chiefdom of Sella Limba, violence erupted as local landowners and…
Local engagement in environmental peacebuilding: Protected area development as a pathway to peace in Afghanistan
This article interrogates local engagement in protected area development as a mechanism for peacebuilding in Afghanistan. Using interviews with representatives from the Band-e-Amir Protected Area Committee, I argue that protected area engagement produced mixed outcomes. In one sense, local engagement generated confidence that democratic processes introduced through governance reforms could transform power structures and resolve conflict. Yet, the…
Conceptualizing resilience within environmental peacebuilding
Communities at Risk for Mobilization: Neoliberal Governance and the (un)Contentious Politics of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Rural Illinois
Doubling down on Dapl: The contentious politics of pipeline governance in Illinois
This article analyzes the permitting proceeding for the capacity expansion of the Dakota Access and Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipelines in Illinois. Drawing on field research undertaken between 2018–2021, we examine how a grassroots-led coalition of climate activists – Save Our Illinois Land (SOIL) – navigated the Illinois Commerce Commission’s institutional context to oppose regulatory approval. We argue that SOIL mobilized procedural aspects of…
The Future of Environmental Peace and Conflict Research
Interest in the intersections of environmental issues, peace and conflict has surged in recent years. Research on the topic has developed along separate research streams, which broadened the knowledge base considerably, but hardly interact across disciplinary, methodological, epistemological and ontological silos. Our forum addresses this gap by bringing into conversation six research streams on the environment, peace and conflict: environmental …
The spatial and scalar politics of a just energy transition in Illinois
Illinois passed the Energy Transition Act (i.e., the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act or CEJA) in 2021, which established clean energy mandates with an emphasis on social equity. We examine CEJA and related policies to understand the politics of Illinois' energy transition. While CEJA has been praised as an approach to a just transition, critics argue that it exacerbated Illinois' rural-urban dichotomy by distributing benefits to urban areas define…
Climate change and peacebuilding: Sub-Themes of an Emerging Research Agenda
Climate change is having profound effects on global security and peacebuilding efforts. While existing research has mainly focused on the link between climate change and conflict, it has largely overlooked the complex interplay between climate change, conflict-affected states and peacebuilding. Climate change exacerbates existing vulnerabilities in conflict-affected societies by adding stress to livelihoods and negatively impacting food, water an…
Perceived equity dimensions of agricultural carbon markets in the US Midwest
Public and private sectors are developing initiatives for carbon capture to mitigate climate change and meet net-zero emissions pledges. Capital markets facilitating the trading of credits for soil organic carbon have the potential to sequester carbon and provide monetary benefits to farmers, but critics contend this approach could exacerbate inequalities among farmers. We use recognition and distributive justice frames to analyze farmer percepti…
Market approaches to sequester soil organic carbon on farms: Justifications and Suggested Transformations From Embedded Market Actors
Everything we do matters: Contesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in rural Iowa through insurgent planning
This in-depth case study examines the grassroots movement that coalesced between 2014-2019 to contest the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in Iowa. We investigate how Iowa organizers from the Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition, Mississippi Stand, and Little Creek Camp employed diverse actions to resist DAPL including participation in the Iowa Utilities Board permitting process, a legal challenge, protests, and sabotage. Drawing on data collection …
Governing after Farc: Environmental peacebuilding in Caquetá, Colombia
We examine the environment as a mechanism for building substantial integration in Colombia. In environmental peacebuilding, substantial integration is a positive peace dimension characterized by trans-societal links that foster social cohesion. Employing data from the Amazonian Department of Caquetá, we argue that the Government of Colombia is pursuing a peacebuilding approach that impedes opportunities to forge an inclusive social order. Instead…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Economics (13 works) · Corporate governance (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Public Administration (11 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Peacebuilding (7 works) · Transboundary Water Resource Management (7 works)