Mette Fog Olwig
Biographic Data
| ID | 3570871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mette Fog Olwig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mette Fog |
| FAMILY NAME | Olwig |
| SIGNATURE | OLWIG M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5081-6671 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Bit Too Simple: Narratives of Development, Sustainability and Climate Change
Narratives like those portraying development workers as heroes and local populations as victims needing to be saved from their own unsustainable practices have led to problematic policies and interventions. Based on fieldwork across four continents, this Element critically analyzes such metanarratives. First, it demonstrates the ways their simplifying, universalistic narrative plots fail to capture more complex lived realities. Second, it argues …
Networks and institutions in sustainable forest use: Evidence from South-East Tanzania
Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania
Research on community-based forest management indicates its conservation outcomes depend on local rule enforcement, extraction pressures, and community support. However, many community-based forest management projects, particularly in the Global South, also involve collaborative networks of non-state actors such as NGOs and private corporations. Many of these networks promote sustainability certification under programs like the Forest Stewardship…
West African Waterworlds: Narratives of Absence versus Narratives of Excess
In the 2000s northern Ghana and northern Burkina Faso experienced extreme flooding as a result of unusually heavy rains attributed to climate change. As a consequence evidence of destruction from flooding was dramatically present during our fieldwork in the area in 2009-10. Nevertheless, we kept encountering a narrative of desertification with little mention of floods and saw that the narrative influenced both local everyday life agendas and glob…
Sustainability superheroes? For-profit narratives of “doing good” in the era of the SDGs
Introduction: Commodifying humanitarian sentiments? The black box of the for-profit and non-profit partnership
Waterworlds: Anthropology in Fluid Environments
Is Local Community the Answer
This article critically examines claims that “local community” and “local/traditional knowledge” are vital contributions to safeguarding socio-economic stability and securing sustainable resource uses in times of stress. The empirical focus is on Central Vietnam, but the argument is relevant in a broader context. The article specifically questions approaches to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation that see “local community knowle…
Inverting the moral economy: The case of land acquisitions for forest plantations in Tanzania
Governments, donors and investors often promote land acquisitions for forest plantations as global climate change mitigation via carbon sequestration. Investors’ forestry thereby becomes part of a global moral economy imaginary. Using examples from Tanzania we critically examine the global moral economy’s narrative foundation, which presents trees as axiomatically ‘green’, ‘idle’ land as waste and economic investments as benefiting the relevant c…
Beyond Translation: Reconceptualizing the Role of Local Practitioners and the Development ‘Interface’
Causal narratives and policy in a warming world
Causal narratives and policy in a warming world." Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography, 112(2), pp. 208–209
Basket weaving and social weaving: Young Ghanaian artisans’ mobilization of resources through mobility in times of climate change
Basket weaving and social weaving: Young Ghanaian artisans’ mobilization of resources through mobility in times of climate change
Inverting the moral economy: The case of land acquisitions for forest plantations in Tanzania
Governments, donors and investors often promote land acquisitions for forest plantations as global climate change mitigation via carbon sequestration. Investors’ forestry thereby becomes part of a global moral economy imaginary. Using examples from Tanzania we critically examine the global moral economy’s narrative foundation, which presents trees as axiomatically ‘green’, ‘idle’ land as waste and economic investments as benefiting the relevant c…
Introduction: Commodifying humanitarian sentiments? The black box of the for-profit and non-profit partnership
Sustainability superheroes? For-profit narratives of “doing good” in the era of the SDGs
Beyond Translation: Reconceptualizing the Role of Local Practitioners and the Development ‘Interface’
Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania
Research on community-based forest management indicates its conservation outcomes depend on local rule enforcement, extraction pressures, and community support. However, many community-based forest management projects, particularly in the Global South, also involve collaborative networks of non-state actors such as NGOs and private corporations. Many of these networks promote sustainability certification under programs like the Forest Stewardship…
Causal narratives and policy in a warming world
Causal narratives and policy in a warming world." Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography, 112(2), pp. 208–209
Basket weaving and social weaving: Young Ghanaian artisans’ mobilization of resources through mobility in times of climate change
Beyond Translation: Reconceptualizing the Role of Local Practitioners and the Development ‘Interface’
Waterworlds: Anthropology in Fluid Environments
Is Local Community the Answer
This article critically examines claims that “local community” and “local/traditional knowledge” are vital contributions to safeguarding socio-economic stability and securing sustainable resource uses in times of stress. The empirical focus is on Central Vietnam, but the argument is relevant in a broader context. The article specifically questions approaches to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation that see “local community knowle…
Inverting the moral economy: The case of land acquisitions for forest plantations in Tanzania
Governments, donors and investors often promote land acquisitions for forest plantations as global climate change mitigation via carbon sequestration. Investors’ forestry thereby becomes part of a global moral economy imaginary. Using examples from Tanzania we critically examine the global moral economy’s narrative foundation, which presents trees as axiomatically ‘green’, ‘idle’ land as waste and economic investments as benefiting the relevant c…
Sustainability superheroes? For-profit narratives of “doing good” in the era of the SDGs
Introduction: Commodifying humanitarian sentiments? The black box of the for-profit and non-profit partnership
West African Waterworlds: Narratives of Absence versus Narratives of Excess
In the 2000s northern Ghana and northern Burkina Faso experienced extreme flooding as a result of unusually heavy rains attributed to climate change. As a consequence evidence of destruction from flooding was dramatically present during our fieldwork in the area in 2009-10. Nevertheless, we kept encountering a narrative of desertification with little mention of floods and saw that the narrative influenced both local everyday life agendas and glob…
Networks and institutions in sustainable forest use: Evidence from South-East Tanzania
Strong collaborative governance networks support effective Forest Stewardship Council-certified community-based forest management: Evidence from Southeast Tanzania
Research on community-based forest management indicates its conservation outcomes depend on local rule enforcement, extraction pressures, and community support. However, many community-based forest management projects, particularly in the Global South, also involve collaborative networks of non-state actors such as NGOs and private corporations. Many of these networks promote sustainability certification under programs like the Forest Stewardship…
A Bit Too Simple: Narratives of Development, Sustainability and Climate Change
Narratives like those portraying development workers as heroes and local populations as victims needing to be saved from their own unsustainable practices have led to problematic policies and interventions. Based on fieldwork across four continents, this Element critically analyzes such metanarratives. First, it demonstrates the ways their simplifying, universalistic narrative plots fail to capture more complex lived realities. Second, it argues …
Political science (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Forestry (3 works)