Benjamin Neimark
Biographic Data
| ID | 184483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Neimark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Neimark |
| SIGNATURE | NEIMARK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3229-0869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 259 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Israel-Gaza conflict carbon emissions exceeded 30 million tons
Comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) inventories are vital for effective climate governance. However, a decade after the Paris Agreement, significant reporting gaps still exist. Emissions associated with military activities represent one such gap, with direct emissions from conflicts frequently unreported and pre- and post-conflict emissions consistently overlooked. Insufficient accounting prevents military emissions from being included i…
Parting the fog of war: Assessing military greenhouse gas emissions from below
The procurement process of militaries, particularly during war time can be complex and secretive, which makes access to data needed to conduct Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) difficult to obtain. • Our framework uses a whole supply chain LCA to measure the carbon emissions from concrete used by the US military during the Iraq war. • Our results show that the combined emissions of T-walls alone used in Iraq came to 54.8 thousand tonnes CO2e, which is…
Concrete Impacts: Blast Walls, Wartime Emissions, and the US Occupation of Iraq
Militaries around the world are a major source of carbon emissions, yet very little is known about their carbon footprint. Reliable data around military resource use and environmental damage is highly variable. Researchers are dependent upon military transparency, the context of military operations, and broader emissions reporting. While studies are beginning to emerge on global militaries and their carbon footprints, less work has focused on war…
Unlocking “lock-in” and path dependency: A review across disciplines and socio-environmental contexts
Introduced in the early 2000s, the concept of carbon “lock-in” has been widely adopted by think tanks, academics, and civil society trying to break away from the consequences of fossil-fuel induced carbon emissions and climate change. The concept has been instrumental to energy economic policy, energy transitions, and automobile transportation and urban mobility. It has parallels with “path dependency” across sectors, including water governance, …
Intervention: The invisible labor of climate change adaptation
Bittersweet cocoa: Certification programmes in Ghana as battlegrounds for power, authority and legitimacy
Uneven development, crypto-regionalism, and the (un-)tethering of nature in Quebec
Mob justice and 'The civilized commodity
Our theory of 'the civilized commodity' examines 'mob violence' affecting high-value commodities, including the vanilla boom of Madagascar. We illustrate producers' labor under fraught conditions of violence and contradictory claims of 'street justice.' Specifically we ask, what counts as justice and to whom? We highlights broader arguments around 'moral hyper-proximity' of producer-consumer relations, and the strategies of state and market actor…
Not Just Participation: The Rise of the Eco‐Precariat in the Green Economy
Despite recent attention to “frontier” green economies and the governance of emerging ecosystem services, the specific division of labour in these economies has been little studied. As many such initiatives are in the global South, labour’s marginality potentially contributes to the existing precariousness of those who are more often identified as “participants”. This article examines the roles and vulnerabilities of these actors: the carbon coun…
Hidden carbon costs of the “everywhere war”: Logistics, geopolitical ecology, and the carbon boot‐print of the US military
This paper examines the US military's impact on climate by analysing the geopolitical ecology of its global logistical supply chains. Our geopolitical ecology framework interrogates the material‐ecological metabolic flows (hydrocarbon‐based fuels, water, sand, concrete) that shape geopolitical and geoeconomic power relations. We argue that to account for the US military as a major climate actor, one must understand the logistical supply chain tha…
"Speaking Power to "Post-Truth: Critical Political Ecology and the New Authoritarianism
Given a history in political ecology of challenging hegemonic “scientific” narratives concerning environmental problems, the current political moment presents a potent conundrum: how to (continue to) critically engage with narratives of environmental change while confronting the “populist” promotion of “alternative facts.” We ask how political ecologists might situate themselves vis-à-vis the presently growing power of contemporary authoritarian …
Green grabbing at the ‘pharm’ gate: Rosy periwinkle production in southern Madagascar
Small-scale commodity frontiers: The bioeconomy value chain of castor oil in Madagascar
The European Commission defines the bioeconomy as a "transition economy which seeks to increase efficiency, optimize use and decrease environmental impact through the reduction of waste and greenhouse gas emissions." However, attempts to substitute or control nature through efficient bio-based technology have not lived up to expectations and much of the industry still relies on globally sourced biomass to drive the bioeconomy. This article examin…
Bioprospecting and Biopiracy
Since its introduction at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, bioprospecting (drug discovery from nature) has been heralded by the conservation community as a model for achieving sustainable development in areas of high biodiversity. Yet, bioprospecting was continually confronted by critics who deemed it nothing less than biopiracy, or the misappropriation of traditional knowledge and nature. This critique eventually transformed the practice in many wa…
Weaponizing nature: The geopolitical ecology of the US Navy's biofuel program
A Human Right to Science: Precarious Labor and Basic Rights in Science and Bioprospecting
Does everyone have the right to benefit from science? If so, what shape should benefits take? This article exposes the inequalities involved in bioprospecting through a relatively neglected human right, the right to benefit from science (HRS). Although underexplored in the literature, it is acknowledged that market-based conservation practices, such as bioprospecting, often rely on cheap “casual” labor. In contrast to critical discourses exposing…
Biofuel imaginaries: The emerging politics surrounding ‘inclusive’ private sector development in Madagascar
Mapping Value in a 'Green' Commodity Frontier: Revisiting Commodity Chain Analysis
Analysis of commodity chains has provided important insights on how power, resource and market access mediate the distribution of benefits and risks. Given this analytical potential, Commodity Chain Analysis (CCA) is now being applied to the study of biofuels and carbon markets to gain systematic insight into the circumstances, relationships and transformations involved in their production and exchange. By building on and adapting this approach t…
Re-mining the collections: From bioprospecting to biodiversity offsetting in Madagascar
Grabbing “Green”: Markets, Environmental Governance and the Materialization of Natural Capital
Over the past two decades, the incorporation of market logics into environment and conservation policy has led to a reconceptualization of “nature.” Resulting constructs like ecosystem services and biodiversity derivatives, as well as finance mechanisms like Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, species banking, and carbon trading, offer new avenues for accumulation and set the context for new enclosures. As these practice…
Industrializing nature, knowledge, and labour: The political economy of bioprospecting in Madagascar
Green grabbing at the 'pharm' gate: Rosy periwinkle production in southern Madagascar
The following article contrasts contemporary rosy periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) extraction in southern Madagascar with original bioprospecting research conducted 50 years ago. My study shows how plant extraction firms have shifted their approaches by creating new labor forms, which devolve risk and increase exploitation in attempts to capture the valuable biogenetic material needed for drug discovery. The periwinkle symbolizes a complex pictur…
Subverting Regulatory Protection of 'Natural Commodities: The Prunus Africana in Madagascar
This article explores the contradictions that have emerged along the commodity chain of the endangered medicinal tree Prunus africana in Madagascar. The study provides a unique opportunity to build on theories of access, highlighting in particular the themes of social relations, culture and power in mediating access to natural resources and benefits that derive from commercialization. Commodity chain analysis is employed to illustrate that proper…
Hidden carbon costs of the “everywhere war”: Logistics, geopolitical ecology, and the carbon boot‐print of the US military
This paper examines the US military's impact on climate by analysing the geopolitical ecology of its global logistical supply chains. Our geopolitical ecology framework interrogates the material‐ecological metabolic flows (hydrocarbon‐based fuels, water, sand, concrete) that shape geopolitical and geoeconomic power relations. We argue that to account for the US military as a major climate actor, one must understand the logistical supply chain tha…
"Speaking Power to "Post-Truth: Critical Political Ecology and the New Authoritarianism
Given a history in political ecology of challenging hegemonic “scientific” narratives concerning environmental problems, the current political moment presents a potent conundrum: how to (continue to) critically engage with narratives of environmental change while confronting the “populist” promotion of “alternative facts.” We ask how political ecologists might situate themselves vis-à-vis the presently growing power of contemporary authoritarian …
Weaponizing nature: The geopolitical ecology of the US Navy's biofuel program
Grabbing “Green”: Markets, Environmental Governance and the Materialization of Natural Capital
Over the past two decades, the incorporation of market logics into environment and conservation policy has led to a reconceptualization of “nature.” Resulting constructs like ecosystem services and biodiversity derivatives, as well as finance mechanisms like Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, species banking, and carbon trading, offer new avenues for accumulation and set the context for new enclosures. As these practice…
Mapping Value in a 'Green' Commodity Frontier: Revisiting Commodity Chain Analysis
Analysis of commodity chains has provided important insights on how power, resource and market access mediate the distribution of benefits and risks. Given this analytical potential, Commodity Chain Analysis (CCA) is now being applied to the study of biofuels and carbon markets to gain systematic insight into the circumstances, relationships and transformations involved in their production and exchange. By building on and adapting this approach t…
Intervention: The invisible labor of climate change adaptation
Uneven development, crypto-regionalism, and the (un-)tethering of nature in Quebec
Re-mining the collections: From bioprospecting to biodiversity offsetting in Madagascar
Industrializing nature, knowledge, and labour: The political economy of bioprospecting in Madagascar
Not Just Participation: The Rise of the Eco‐Precariat in the Green Economy
Despite recent attention to “frontier” green economies and the governance of emerging ecosystem services, the specific division of labour in these economies has been little studied. As many such initiatives are in the global South, labour’s marginality potentially contributes to the existing precariousness of those who are more often identified as “participants”. This article examines the roles and vulnerabilities of these actors: the carbon coun…
Biofuel imaginaries: The emerging politics surrounding ‘inclusive’ private sector development in Madagascar
Green grabbing at the 'pharm' gate: Rosy periwinkle production in southern Madagascar
The following article contrasts contemporary rosy periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) extraction in southern Madagascar with original bioprospecting research conducted 50 years ago. My study shows how plant extraction firms have shifted their approaches by creating new labor forms, which devolve risk and increase exploitation in attempts to capture the valuable biogenetic material needed for drug discovery. The periwinkle symbolizes a complex pictur…
Small-scale commodity frontiers: The bioeconomy value chain of castor oil in Madagascar
The European Commission defines the bioeconomy as a "transition economy which seeks to increase efficiency, optimize use and decrease environmental impact through the reduction of waste and greenhouse gas emissions." However, attempts to substitute or control nature through efficient bio-based technology have not lived up to expectations and much of the industry still relies on globally sourced biomass to drive the bioeconomy. This article examin…
Subverting Regulatory Protection of 'Natural Commodities: The Prunus Africana in Madagascar
This article explores the contradictions that have emerged along the commodity chain of the endangered medicinal tree Prunus africana in Madagascar. The study provides a unique opportunity to build on theories of access, highlighting in particular the themes of social relations, culture and power in mediating access to natural resources and benefits that derive from commercialization. Commodity chain analysis is employed to illustrate that proper…
Mob justice and 'The civilized commodity
Our theory of 'the civilized commodity' examines 'mob violence' affecting high-value commodities, including the vanilla boom of Madagascar. We illustrate producers' labor under fraught conditions of violence and contradictory claims of 'street justice.' Specifically we ask, what counts as justice and to whom? We highlights broader arguments around 'moral hyper-proximity' of producer-consumer relations, and the strategies of state and market actor…
A Human Right to Science: Precarious Labor and Basic Rights in Science and Bioprospecting
Does everyone have the right to benefit from science? If so, what shape should benefits take? This article exposes the inequalities involved in bioprospecting through a relatively neglected human right, the right to benefit from science (HRS). Although underexplored in the literature, it is acknowledged that market-based conservation practices, such as bioprospecting, often rely on cheap “casual” labor. In contrast to critical discourses exposing…
Bittersweet cocoa: Certification programmes in Ghana as battlegrounds for power, authority and legitimacy
Concrete Impacts: Blast Walls, Wartime Emissions, and the US Occupation of Iraq
Militaries around the world are a major source of carbon emissions, yet very little is known about their carbon footprint. Reliable data around military resource use and environmental damage is highly variable. Researchers are dependent upon military transparency, the context of military operations, and broader emissions reporting. While studies are beginning to emerge on global militaries and their carbon footprints, less work has focused on war…
Subverting Regulatory Protection of 'Natural Commodities: The Prunus Africana in Madagascar
This article explores the contradictions that have emerged along the commodity chain of the endangered medicinal tree Prunus africana in Madagascar. The study provides a unique opportunity to build on theories of access, highlighting in particular the themes of social relations, culture and power in mediating access to natural resources and benefits that derive from commercialization. Commodity chain analysis is employed to illustrate that proper…
Industrializing nature, knowledge, and labour: The political economy of bioprospecting in Madagascar
Green grabbing at the 'pharm' gate: Rosy periwinkle production in southern Madagascar
The following article contrasts contemporary rosy periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) extraction in southern Madagascar with original bioprospecting research conducted 50 years ago. My study shows how plant extraction firms have shifted their approaches by creating new labor forms, which devolve risk and increase exploitation in attempts to capture the valuable biogenetic material needed for drug discovery. The periwinkle symbolizes a complex pictur…
Grabbing “Green”: Markets, Environmental Governance and the Materialization of Natural Capital
Over the past two decades, the incorporation of market logics into environment and conservation policy has led to a reconceptualization of “nature.” Resulting constructs like ecosystem services and biodiversity derivatives, as well as finance mechanisms like Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, species banking, and carbon trading, offer new avenues for accumulation and set the context for new enclosures. As these practice…
Re-mining the collections: From bioprospecting to biodiversity offsetting in Madagascar
Biofuel imaginaries: The emerging politics surrounding ‘inclusive’ private sector development in Madagascar
Mapping Value in a 'Green' Commodity Frontier: Revisiting Commodity Chain Analysis
Analysis of commodity chains has provided important insights on how power, resource and market access mediate the distribution of benefits and risks. Given this analytical potential, Commodity Chain Analysis (CCA) is now being applied to the study of biofuels and carbon markets to gain systematic insight into the circumstances, relationships and transformations involved in their production and exchange. By building on and adapting this approach t…
Bioprospecting and Biopiracy
Since its introduction at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, bioprospecting (drug discovery from nature) has been heralded by the conservation community as a model for achieving sustainable development in areas of high biodiversity. Yet, bioprospecting was continually confronted by critics who deemed it nothing less than biopiracy, or the misappropriation of traditional knowledge and nature. This critique eventually transformed the practice in many wa…
Weaponizing nature: The geopolitical ecology of the US Navy's biofuel program
A Human Right to Science: Precarious Labor and Basic Rights in Science and Bioprospecting
Does everyone have the right to benefit from science? If so, what shape should benefits take? This article exposes the inequalities involved in bioprospecting through a relatively neglected human right, the right to benefit from science (HRS). Although underexplored in the literature, it is acknowledged that market-based conservation practices, such as bioprospecting, often rely on cheap “casual” labor. In contrast to critical discourses exposing…
Green grabbing at the ‘pharm’ gate: Rosy periwinkle production in southern Madagascar
Small-scale commodity frontiers: The bioeconomy value chain of castor oil in Madagascar
The European Commission defines the bioeconomy as a "transition economy which seeks to increase efficiency, optimize use and decrease environmental impact through the reduction of waste and greenhouse gas emissions." However, attempts to substitute or control nature through efficient bio-based technology have not lived up to expectations and much of the industry still relies on globally sourced biomass to drive the bioeconomy. This article examin…
Hidden carbon costs of the “everywhere war”: Logistics, geopolitical ecology, and the carbon boot‐print of the US military
This paper examines the US military's impact on climate by analysing the geopolitical ecology of its global logistical supply chains. Our geopolitical ecology framework interrogates the material‐ecological metabolic flows (hydrocarbon‐based fuels, water, sand, concrete) that shape geopolitical and geoeconomic power relations. We argue that to account for the US military as a major climate actor, one must understand the logistical supply chain tha…
"Speaking Power to "Post-Truth: Critical Political Ecology and the New Authoritarianism
Given a history in political ecology of challenging hegemonic “scientific” narratives concerning environmental problems, the current political moment presents a potent conundrum: how to (continue to) critically engage with narratives of environmental change while confronting the “populist” promotion of “alternative facts.” We ask how political ecologists might situate themselves vis-à-vis the presently growing power of contemporary authoritarian …
Not Just Participation: The Rise of the Eco‐Precariat in the Green Economy
Despite recent attention to “frontier” green economies and the governance of emerging ecosystem services, the specific division of labour in these economies has been little studied. As many such initiatives are in the global South, labour’s marginality potentially contributes to the existing precariousness of those who are more often identified as “participants”. This article examines the roles and vulnerabilities of these actors: the carbon coun…
Uneven development, crypto-regionalism, and the (un-)tethering of nature in Quebec
Mob justice and 'The civilized commodity
Our theory of 'the civilized commodity' examines 'mob violence' affecting high-value commodities, including the vanilla boom of Madagascar. We illustrate producers' labor under fraught conditions of violence and contradictory claims of 'street justice.' Specifically we ask, what counts as justice and to whom? We highlights broader arguments around 'moral hyper-proximity' of producer-consumer relations, and the strategies of state and market actor…
Bittersweet cocoa: Certification programmes in Ghana as battlegrounds for power, authority and legitimacy
Unlocking “lock-in” and path dependency: A review across disciplines and socio-environmental contexts
Introduced in the early 2000s, the concept of carbon “lock-in” has been widely adopted by think tanks, academics, and civil society trying to break away from the consequences of fossil-fuel induced carbon emissions and climate change. The concept has been instrumental to energy economic policy, energy transitions, and automobile transportation and urban mobility. It has parallels with “path dependency” across sectors, including water governance, …
Intervention: The invisible labor of climate change adaptation
Concrete Impacts: Blast Walls, Wartime Emissions, and the US Occupation of Iraq
Militaries around the world are a major source of carbon emissions, yet very little is known about their carbon footprint. Reliable data around military resource use and environmental damage is highly variable. Researchers are dependent upon military transparency, the context of military operations, and broader emissions reporting. While studies are beginning to emerge on global militaries and their carbon footprints, less work has focused on war…
Parting the fog of war: Assessing military greenhouse gas emissions from below
The procurement process of militaries, particularly during war time can be complex and secretive, which makes access to data needed to conduct Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) difficult to obtain. • Our framework uses a whole supply chain LCA to measure the carbon emissions from concrete used by the US military during the Iraq war. • Our results show that the combined emissions of T-walls alone used in Iraq came to 54.8 thousand tonnes CO2e, which is…
Israel-Gaza conflict carbon emissions exceeded 30 million tons
Comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) inventories are vital for effective climate governance. However, a decade after the Paris Agreement, significant reporting gaps still exist. Emissions associated with military activities represent one such gap, with direct emissions from conflicts frequently unreported and pre- and post-conflict emissions consistently overlooked. Insufficient accounting prevents military emissions from being included i…
Economics (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (9 works) · Biology (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Commodity (6 works)