Joshua J Cousins
Biographic Data
| ID | 219493 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua J Cousins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua J |
| FAMILY NAME | Cousins |
| SIGNATURE | COUSINS J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1835-6024 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 176 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Just nature-based solutions and the pursuit of climate resilient urban development
Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a featured project of China's Belt and Road Initiative that is creating new resource frontiers in Tharparkar, Pakistan. Centered around coal mining and energy production, these new sites of resource extraction and their infrastructures have sparked dissensus throughout the Desert district of Sindh, Pakistan. Our analysis draws on research on socio-technical imaginaries and Rancière's thoughts on political c…
Transformation and recognition: Planning just climate havens in New York State
Judicialising Urban Political Ecologies: Post‐Politics and Environmental Governance in South Asia
Legal and judicial mediation and arbitration significantly influence who has access and control over resources. Taking insights from post‐political debates in political ecology and discussions at the intersection of critical legal geography and political ecology, we focus on the production of judicial ecologies. Through case studies on waste management in India, water governance in Pakistan, and urban air pollution in Bangladesh, we describe how …
Justice in nature-based solutions: Research and pathways
Malleable infrastructures: Crisis and the engineering of political ecologies in Southern California
This paper examines the sociotechnical imaginaries shaping the development, retrofit, and multiple uses of water infrastructure in response to crisis. Focusing on Morris Dam, located on the San Gabriel River in Los Angeles County, I ground my analysis in a case that highlights how the interactions between professional engineering and scientific practice, political aims and goals, and environmental conditions shape infrastructural form and functio…
Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities
Thirteen years since the publication of In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism (Heynen, Kaika, and Swyngedouw 2006) set the agenda for urban political
What Makes a Megaproject
This article reviews how global hydropower assemblages catalyze socioecological change in the world's rivers. As a quintessential megaproject, massive dams and the hydropower they generate have long captivated the modernist development imaginary. Yet, despite growing recognition of the socio-ecological consequences of hydropower, it has recently assumed a central role in supporting renewable energy transitions. We highlight three trends in hydrop…
Infrastructure and institutions: Stakeholder perspectives of stormwater governance in Chicago
Political-industrial ecology: An introduction
Of floods and droughts: The uneven politics of stormwater in Los Angeles
Structuring Hydrosocial Relations in Urban Water Governance
This article concentrates on how hydro-social relations are differentially structured across technical experts engaged within diverse and multiple networks of institutional and bureaucratic practice and the implications this has for more inclusive forms of environmental governance and decision-making. I empirically focus on stormwater governance in Chicago and Los Angeles as a means to capture the range of geographical and institutional variation…
Volume control: Stormwater and the politics of urban metabolism
The energy and emissions footprint of water supply for Southern California
Due to climate change and ongoing drought, California and much of the American West face critical water supply challenges. California’s water supply infrastructure sprawls for thousands of miles, from the Colorado River to the Sacramento Delta. Bringing water to growing urban centers in Southern California is especially energy intensive, pushing local utilities to balance water security with factors such as the cost and carbon footprint of the va…
The boundaries of urban metabolism: Towards a political–industrial ecology
This paper considers the limits and potential of ‘urban metabolism’ to conceptualize city processes. Three ‘ecologies’ of urban metabolism have emerged. Each privileges a particular dimension of urban space, shaped by epistemology, politics, and model-making. Marxist ecologies theorize urban metabolism as hybridized socio-natures that (re)produce uneven outcomes; industrial ecology, as stocks and flows of materials and energy; and urban ecology, …
A political–industrial ecology of water supply infrastructure for Los Angeles
The boundaries of urban metabolism: Towards a political–industrial ecology
This paper considers the limits and potential of ‘urban metabolism’ to conceptualize city processes. Three ‘ecologies’ of urban metabolism have emerged. Each privileges a particular dimension of urban space, shaped by epistemology, politics, and model-making. Marxist ecologies theorize urban metabolism as hybridized socio-natures that (re)produce uneven outcomes; industrial ecology, as stocks and flows of materials and energy; and urban ecology, …
A political–industrial ecology of water supply infrastructure for Los Angeles
Volume control: Stormwater and the politics of urban metabolism
Malleable infrastructures: Crisis and the engineering of political ecologies in Southern California
This paper examines the sociotechnical imaginaries shaping the development, retrofit, and multiple uses of water infrastructure in response to crisis. Focusing on Morris Dam, located on the San Gabriel River in Los Angeles County, I ground my analysis in a case that highlights how the interactions between professional engineering and scientific practice, political aims and goals, and environmental conditions shape infrastructural form and functio…
Political-industrial ecology: An introduction
Structuring Hydrosocial Relations in Urban Water Governance
This article concentrates on how hydro-social relations are differentially structured across technical experts engaged within diverse and multiple networks of institutional and bureaucratic practice and the implications this has for more inclusive forms of environmental governance and decision-making. I empirically focus on stormwater governance in Chicago and Los Angeles as a means to capture the range of geographical and institutional variation…
What Makes a Megaproject
This article reviews how global hydropower assemblages catalyze socioecological change in the world's rivers. As a quintessential megaproject, massive dams and the hydropower they generate have long captivated the modernist development imaginary. Yet, despite growing recognition of the socio-ecological consequences of hydropower, it has recently assumed a central role in supporting renewable energy transitions. We highlight three trends in hydrop…
Infrastructure and institutions: Stakeholder perspectives of stormwater governance in Chicago
Of floods and droughts: The uneven politics of stormwater in Los Angeles
Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a featured project of China's Belt and Road Initiative that is creating new resource frontiers in Tharparkar, Pakistan. Centered around coal mining and energy production, these new sites of resource extraction and their infrastructures have sparked dissensus throughout the Desert district of Sindh, Pakistan. Our analysis draws on research on socio-technical imaginaries and Rancière's thoughts on political c…
Transformation and recognition: Planning just climate havens in New York State
Judicialising Urban Political Ecologies: Post‐Politics and Environmental Governance in South Asia
Legal and judicial mediation and arbitration significantly influence who has access and control over resources. Taking insights from post‐political debates in political ecology and discussions at the intersection of critical legal geography and political ecology, we focus on the production of judicial ecologies. Through case studies on waste management in India, water governance in Pakistan, and urban air pollution in Bangladesh, we describe how …
The boundaries of urban metabolism: Towards a political–industrial ecology
This paper considers the limits and potential of ‘urban metabolism’ to conceptualize city processes. Three ‘ecologies’ of urban metabolism have emerged. Each privileges a particular dimension of urban space, shaped by epistemology, politics, and model-making. Marxist ecologies theorize urban metabolism as hybridized socio-natures that (re)produce uneven outcomes; industrial ecology, as stocks and flows of materials and energy; and urban ecology, …
A political–industrial ecology of water supply infrastructure for Los Angeles
The energy and emissions footprint of water supply for Southern California
Due to climate change and ongoing drought, California and much of the American West face critical water supply challenges. California’s water supply infrastructure sprawls for thousands of miles, from the Colorado River to the Sacramento Delta. Bringing water to growing urban centers in Southern California is especially energy intensive, pushing local utilities to balance water security with factors such as the cost and carbon footprint of the va…
Volume control: Stormwater and the politics of urban metabolism
Infrastructure and institutions: Stakeholder perspectives of stormwater governance in Chicago
Political-industrial ecology: An introduction
Of floods and droughts: The uneven politics of stormwater in Los Angeles
Structuring Hydrosocial Relations in Urban Water Governance
This article concentrates on how hydro-social relations are differentially structured across technical experts engaged within diverse and multiple networks of institutional and bureaucratic practice and the implications this has for more inclusive forms of environmental governance and decision-making. I empirically focus on stormwater governance in Chicago and Los Angeles as a means to capture the range of geographical and institutional variation…
Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities
Thirteen years since the publication of In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism (Heynen, Kaika, and Swyngedouw 2006) set the agenda for urban political
What Makes a Megaproject
This article reviews how global hydropower assemblages catalyze socioecological change in the world's rivers. As a quintessential megaproject, massive dams and the hydropower they generate have long captivated the modernist development imaginary. Yet, despite growing recognition of the socio-ecological consequences of hydropower, it has recently assumed a central role in supporting renewable energy transitions. We highlight three trends in hydrop…
Malleable infrastructures: Crisis and the engineering of political ecologies in Southern California
This paper examines the sociotechnical imaginaries shaping the development, retrofit, and multiple uses of water infrastructure in response to crisis. Focusing on Morris Dam, located on the San Gabriel River in Los Angeles County, I ground my analysis in a case that highlights how the interactions between professional engineering and scientific practice, political aims and goals, and environmental conditions shape infrastructural form and functio…
Justice in nature-based solutions: Research and pathways
Judicialising Urban Political Ecologies: Post‐Politics and Environmental Governance in South Asia
Legal and judicial mediation and arbitration significantly influence who has access and control over resources. Taking insights from post‐political debates in political ecology and discussions at the intersection of critical legal geography and political ecology, we focus on the production of judicial ecologies. Through case studies on waste management in India, water governance in Pakistan, and urban air pollution in Bangladesh, we describe how …
Transformation and recognition: Planning just climate havens in New York State
Just nature-based solutions and the pursuit of climate resilient urban development
Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a featured project of China's Belt and Road Initiative that is creating new resource frontiers in Tharparkar, Pakistan. Centered around coal mining and energy production, these new sites of resource extraction and their infrastructures have sparked dissensus throughout the Desert district of Sindh, Pakistan. Our analysis draws on research on socio-technical imaginaries and Rancière's thoughts on political c…
Political science (14 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Environmental planning (8 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (8 works) · Corporate governance (7 works) · Law (7 works)