Tracey Osborne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracey Osborne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracey |
| FAMILY NAME | Osborne |
| SIGNATURE | OSBORNE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2475-083X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 219 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Relational environmental governance: A critical framework for praxis with the material world
Environmental governance (EG) has become a hegemonic concept for understanding and transforming environmental decision-making processes that operate beyond the state. However, political ecologists, drawing from a diverse set of theoretical frameworks, have critiqued the concept for being malleable, vague, and apolitical, which has enabled its appropriation in ways that conceal inequality and difference, advocate techno-managerial fixes, and espou…
Tradescapes’ in the forest: Framing infrastructure’s relation to territory, commodities, and flows
The political ecology playbook for ecosystem restoration: Principles for effective, equitable, and transformative landscapes
Restoration should address underlying causes of degradation. • The Playbook addresses political-economic perspectives within specific contexts. • Ten principles address how to achieve resilient and equitable ecosystem restoration. • Local and landscape processes are intricately linked to national and global scales. • Restoration aims to achieve ecologically, socially and economically just landscapes. The urgency of restoring ecosystems to improve…
Extraction, entanglements, and (im)materialities: Reflections on the methods and methodologies of natural resource industries fieldwork
This multi-authored collection of papers examines the complex realities of research on natural resource industries, including the messy entanglements of extraction, materiality, and everyday social life this research entails. Of central importance to the contributors is how scholars confront fieldwork challenges ethically, methodologically, and corporeally. The collection has two key objectives. First, it expands our understanding of extractive i…
A Manifesto for a Progressive Land-Grant Mission in an Authoritarian Populist Era
In this article, we offer a manifesto for a progressive twenty-first century land-grant mission in an era of rising authoritarian populism in the United States. We explore the historical context of this mode of political engagement, argue that scholars based at land-grant universities are uniquely positioned to address this political moment, and offer examples of land-grant scholars who have embraced this political obligation directly. In the mid…
Embedding Carbon Markets: Complicating Commodification of Ecosystem Services in Mexico's Forests
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are increasingly employed to address a range of environmental issues, including biodiversity conservation, watershed protection, and climate change mitigation. PES initiatives have gained momentum since the 1990s, and market enthusiasts have promoted them as not only cost effective but generative of social and ecological co-benefits for local communities. Whereas the neoliberalization and commodification of n…
Toward an urban political ecology of energy justice: The case of rooftop solar in Tucson, AZ
The rapid deployment of rooftop solar panels in many US cities has raised new concerns about the fair distribution of electricity costs through rates. Electric utilities argue that existing rate structures shift costs from solar owners to lower-income ratepayers, while critics say rooftop solar benefits all ratepayers and helps address environmental injustice. In light of these competing justice claims, this article asks: what are the implication…
Public Political Ecology: A Community of Praxis for Earth Stewardship
Political ecology is a powerful framework for analyzing the underlying causes of environmental change, yet underutilized for guiding an ethical response to the Anthropocene. In this article, I introduce Public Political Ecology as an approach for practicing engaged scholarship in this moment of ecological crisis. A political, ethical and educational project, public political ecology is influenced by Antonio Gramsci's work on the philosophy of pra…
Southwest climate gap: Poverty and environmental justice in the US Southwest
This article examines the "climate gap" in the Southwest US (Arizona and New Mexico), referring to the "disproportionate and unequal implications of climate change and climate change mitigation" for "people of color and the poor" [Shonkoff, S.B., et al., 2011. The climate gap: environmental health and equity implications of climate change mitigation policies in California. Climatic Change, 109 (Suppl. 1), S485-S503]. The climate and poverty relat…
Tradeoffs in carbon commodification: A political ecology of common property forest governance
Fixing Carbon, Losing Ground: Payments for Environmental Services and Land (IN)Security in Mexico
Community-based carbon forestry has grown rapidly in Chiapas over the last decade, where small farmers with communal land tenure are increasingly turning to forest activities as a supplement to income. Communal land rights, however, are under siege because of neoliberal shifts in agrarian reform that make the privatization of communal land a legal possibility for the first time in generations. In this paper, I argue that the requirements of Mexic…
Carbon forestry and agrarian change: Access and land control in a Mexican rainforest
Over the last decade, carbon forestry has grown in Chiapas, where small farmers are increasingly turning to planting carbon-sequestering trees and the carbon market as a new source of income. Using an agrarian political ecology approach, and based on empirical research in a rainforest community in the Lacandon Jungle, I argue that while carbon offset producers continue to have formal land rights, they lose some of the short-term benefits of land …
Carbon offsets as an economic alternative to large-scale logging: A case study in Guyana
Carbon forestry and agrarian change: Access and land control in a Mexican rainforest
Over the last decade, carbon forestry has grown in Chiapas, where small farmers are increasingly turning to planting carbon-sequestering trees and the carbon market as a new source of income. Using an agrarian political ecology approach, and based on empirical research in a rainforest community in the Lacandon Jungle, I argue that while carbon offset producers continue to have formal land rights, they lose some of the short-term benefits of land …
Tradeoffs in carbon commodification: A political ecology of common property forest governance
Embedding Carbon Markets: Complicating Commodification of Ecosystem Services in Mexico's Forests
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are increasingly employed to address a range of environmental issues, including biodiversity conservation, watershed protection, and climate change mitigation. PES initiatives have gained momentum since the 1990s, and market enthusiasts have promoted them as not only cost effective but generative of social and ecological co-benefits for local communities. Whereas the neoliberalization and commodification of n…
The political ecology playbook for ecosystem restoration: Principles for effective, equitable, and transformative landscapes
Restoration should address underlying causes of degradation. • The Playbook addresses political-economic perspectives within specific contexts. • Ten principles address how to achieve resilient and equitable ecosystem restoration. • Local and landscape processes are intricately linked to national and global scales. • Restoration aims to achieve ecologically, socially and economically just landscapes. The urgency of restoring ecosystems to improve…
Extraction, entanglements, and (im)materialities: Reflections on the methods and methodologies of natural resource industries fieldwork
This multi-authored collection of papers examines the complex realities of research on natural resource industries, including the messy entanglements of extraction, materiality, and everyday social life this research entails. Of central importance to the contributors is how scholars confront fieldwork challenges ethically, methodologically, and corporeally. The collection has two key objectives. First, it expands our understanding of extractive i…
A Manifesto for a Progressive Land-Grant Mission in an Authoritarian Populist Era
In this article, we offer a manifesto for a progressive twenty-first century land-grant mission in an era of rising authoritarian populism in the United States. We explore the historical context of this mode of political engagement, argue that scholars based at land-grant universities are uniquely positioned to address this political moment, and offer examples of land-grant scholars who have embraced this political obligation directly. In the mid…
Public Political Ecology: A Community of Praxis for Earth Stewardship
Political ecology is a powerful framework for analyzing the underlying causes of environmental change, yet underutilized for guiding an ethical response to the Anthropocene. In this article, I introduce Public Political Ecology as an approach for practicing engaged scholarship in this moment of ecological crisis. A political, ethical and educational project, public political ecology is influenced by Antonio Gramsci's work on the philosophy of pra…
Fixing Carbon, Losing Ground: Payments for Environmental Services and Land (IN)Security in Mexico
Community-based carbon forestry has grown rapidly in Chiapas over the last decade, where small farmers with communal land tenure are increasingly turning to forest activities as a supplement to income. Communal land rights, however, are under siege because of neoliberal shifts in agrarian reform that make the privatization of communal land a legal possibility for the first time in generations. In this paper, I argue that the requirements of Mexic…
Southwest climate gap: Poverty and environmental justice in the US Southwest
This article examines the "climate gap" in the Southwest US (Arizona and New Mexico), referring to the "disproportionate and unequal implications of climate change and climate change mitigation" for "people of color and the poor" [Shonkoff, S.B., et al., 2011. The climate gap: environmental health and equity implications of climate change mitigation policies in California. Climatic Change, 109 (Suppl. 1), S485-S503]. The climate and poverty relat…
Toward an urban political ecology of energy justice: The case of rooftop solar in Tucson, AZ
The rapid deployment of rooftop solar panels in many US cities has raised new concerns about the fair distribution of electricity costs through rates. Electric utilities argue that existing rate structures shift costs from solar owners to lower-income ratepayers, while critics say rooftop solar benefits all ratepayers and helps address environmental injustice. In light of these competing justice claims, this article asks: what are the implication…
Relational environmental governance: A critical framework for praxis with the material world
Environmental governance (EG) has become a hegemonic concept for understanding and transforming environmental decision-making processes that operate beyond the state. However, political ecologists, drawing from a diverse set of theoretical frameworks, have critiqued the concept for being malleable, vague, and apolitical, which has enabled its appropriation in ways that conceal inequality and difference, advocate techno-managerial fixes, and espou…
Tradescapes’ in the forest: Framing infrastructure’s relation to territory, commodities, and flows
Carbon offsets as an economic alternative to large-scale logging: A case study in Guyana
Carbon forestry and agrarian change: Access and land control in a Mexican rainforest
Over the last decade, carbon forestry has grown in Chiapas, where small farmers are increasingly turning to planting carbon-sequestering trees and the carbon market as a new source of income. Using an agrarian political ecology approach, and based on empirical research in a rainforest community in the Lacandon Jungle, I argue that while carbon offset producers continue to have formal land rights, they lose some of the short-term benefits of land …
Fixing Carbon, Losing Ground: Payments for Environmental Services and Land (IN)Security in Mexico
Community-based carbon forestry has grown rapidly in Chiapas over the last decade, where small farmers with communal land tenure are increasingly turning to forest activities as a supplement to income. Communal land rights, however, are under siege because of neoliberal shifts in agrarian reform that make the privatization of communal land a legal possibility for the first time in generations. In this paper, I argue that the requirements of Mexic…
Tradeoffs in carbon commodification: A political ecology of common property forest governance
Southwest climate gap: Poverty and environmental justice in the US Southwest
This article examines the "climate gap" in the Southwest US (Arizona and New Mexico), referring to the "disproportionate and unequal implications of climate change and climate change mitigation" for "people of color and the poor" [Shonkoff, S.B., et al., 2011. The climate gap: environmental health and equity implications of climate change mitigation policies in California. Climatic Change, 109 (Suppl. 1), S485-S503]. The climate and poverty relat…
Toward an urban political ecology of energy justice: The case of rooftop solar in Tucson, AZ
The rapid deployment of rooftop solar panels in many US cities has raised new concerns about the fair distribution of electricity costs through rates. Electric utilities argue that existing rate structures shift costs from solar owners to lower-income ratepayers, while critics say rooftop solar benefits all ratepayers and helps address environmental injustice. In light of these competing justice claims, this article asks: what are the implication…
Public Political Ecology: A Community of Praxis for Earth Stewardship
Political ecology is a powerful framework for analyzing the underlying causes of environmental change, yet underutilized for guiding an ethical response to the Anthropocene. In this article, I introduce Public Political Ecology as an approach for practicing engaged scholarship in this moment of ecological crisis. A political, ethical and educational project, public political ecology is influenced by Antonio Gramsci's work on the philosophy of pra…
Embedding Carbon Markets: Complicating Commodification of Ecosystem Services in Mexico's Forests
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are increasingly employed to address a range of environmental issues, including biodiversity conservation, watershed protection, and climate change mitigation. PES initiatives have gained momentum since the 1990s, and market enthusiasts have promoted them as not only cost effective but generative of social and ecological co-benefits for local communities. Whereas the neoliberalization and commodification of n…
A Manifesto for a Progressive Land-Grant Mission in an Authoritarian Populist Era
In this article, we offer a manifesto for a progressive twenty-first century land-grant mission in an era of rising authoritarian populism in the United States. We explore the historical context of this mode of political engagement, argue that scholars based at land-grant universities are uniquely positioned to address this political moment, and offer examples of land-grant scholars who have embraced this political obligation directly. In the mid…
Tradescapes’ in the forest: Framing infrastructure’s relation to territory, commodities, and flows
The political ecology playbook for ecosystem restoration: Principles for effective, equitable, and transformative landscapes
Restoration should address underlying causes of degradation. • The Playbook addresses political-economic perspectives within specific contexts. • Ten principles address how to achieve resilient and equitable ecosystem restoration. • Local and landscape processes are intricately linked to national and global scales. • Restoration aims to achieve ecologically, socially and economically just landscapes. The urgency of restoring ecosystems to improve…
Extraction, entanglements, and (im)materialities: Reflections on the methods and methodologies of natural resource industries fieldwork
This multi-authored collection of papers examines the complex realities of research on natural resource industries, including the messy entanglements of extraction, materiality, and everyday social life this research entails. Of central importance to the contributors is how scholars confront fieldwork challenges ethically, methodologically, and corporeally. The collection has two key objectives. First, it expands our understanding of extractive i…
Relational environmental governance: A critical framework for praxis with the material world
Environmental governance (EG) has become a hegemonic concept for understanding and transforming environmental decision-making processes that operate beyond the state. However, political ecologists, drawing from a diverse set of theoretical frameworks, have critiqued the concept for being malleable, vague, and apolitical, which has enabled its appropriation in ways that conceal inequality and difference, advocate techno-managerial fixes, and espou…
Economics (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Natural resource economics (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (5 works)