Kristen Lyons
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristen Lyons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyons |
| SIGNATURE | LYONS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7052-7794 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 288 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Babatana Rainforest in Solomon Islands: A Practice-Based Field Trip for Unlearning the World
This paper explores practice-based learning pedagogies to support unlearning amongst Australian-based students. Drawing on reflective practices from students as part of a field trip to the Babatana Rainforest Conservation Project in Solomon Islands – an Indigenous-led conservation and carbon offset project – our paper reveals the myriad of ways fieldwork experiences disrupted students’ prior knowledge, including in ways that supported them to unl…
International Aid and Its Role in Shaping Agriculture Policy Narratives in Ghana
International aid in the form of development assistance helps developing countries meet their development needs. Aid is also used as a conduit to drive the interests of donor countries in recipient countries. In Ghana, there is a renewed interest from donors to drive agriculture transformation through investment in market-based policies. However, little is known about how development assistance is used by donor countries to promote their interest…
The Rhetoric and Farmers' Lived Realities of the Green Revolution in Africa: Case Study of the Brong Ahafo Region in Ghana
This paper presents a political ecological analysis of the drivers and impacts of Green Revolution technologies - including improved seeds, chemical fertiliser and other agrochemicals - in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. We identify national government, foreign investment and philanthro-capital as key drivers in shaping both narratives and uptake of Green Revolution technologies at the local level. Drawing from interviews and focus groups, our f…
Nano White Food and the Reproduction of Whiteness: Impacts for Indigenous Health and Relationships with Food
Since colonisation began in Australia, it has transformed the ecological, social, cultural, and economic bases of the biggest estate on earth, with outcomes driving the disruption of Indigenous food sovereignty, foodways and food knowledges alongside the reproduction of Whiteness. This article critically examines the place of White food, including the case of nanotechnologies, in the expansion of the settler colonial frontier, and its impacts for…
Democratizing global climate governance? The case of indigenous representation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Indigenous communities have a particular stake in climate and energy developments, and have come to occupy a central role in both the movement toward decarbonization of industrial societies and renewable energy transition. Yet they remain underrepresented and excluded from climate policy processes. This paper critically evaluates the case of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to foster inclusive decision-making, with a specific …
Securing territory for mining when Traditional Owners say ‘No’: The exceptional case of Wangan and Jagalingou in Australia
Governing with Ignorance: Understanding the Australian Food Regulator’s Response to Nano Food
Reforming global carbon markets or re-imagining alternative climate solutions and sustainabilities? An analysis of selected NGO strategies in Uganda
Carbon markets have emerged globally as a central feature in market based strategies to address the climate crisis. Global trade in carbon is based on the premise that it is possible to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and stabilise the earth's climate, while at the same time generating new forms of capital accumulation. Amongst carbon market initiatives includes Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) type projects…
The Role of Faith-based Organizations in Environmental Governance: The Case of Forestry in Solomon Islands
Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have played a significant role in environment-related forms of development and governance in Melanesia, including the Solomon Islands. Yet despite their centrality, there remain significant gaps in understandings of processes and outcomes associated with FBO engagement in environment-related development interventions. This paper addresses this gap by analysing the place of the Christian Fellowship Church (CFC), an…
‘We would rather die in jail fighting for land, than die of hunger’: A Ugandan case study examining the deployment of corporate-led community development in the green economy
In this article we take the case study of Green Resources, a Norwegian private company engaged in plantation forestry for the production of timber and the sale of carbon credits in two Central Forest Reserves in Uganda. Drawing on fieldwork conducted during 2012 and 2013 we examine the deployment of community development by the company within the context of what is known as the green economy. Green Resources has been chosen as a case study given …
Privatising development and environmental management: Undermining social license in the Ugandan plantation forest sector
Conceptually located within the literature on privatisation of forestry, and environmental initiatives more broadly, this article examines how companies such as Green Resources in Uganda are achieving legitimacy, or failing to do so, in communities, thereby threatening what is understood as their Social License to Operate. Green Resources makes strong claims related to positive community investment, aimed towards social and environmental outcomes…
Weighing up the evidence: A response to Fischer et al
The new corporate enclosures: Plantation forestry, carbon markets and the limits of financialised solutions to the climate crisis
Community teak forestry in Solomon Islands as donor development: When science meets culture
Carbon markets and the new ‘Carbon Violence’: A Ugandan study
his article examines the expansion of the global carbon economy, including a critical evaluation of its local level impacts. The authors describe the growing international support for carbon markets amongst governments, international institutions and financial investors as a response to human-induced climate change. By putting a price on carbon, proponents argue that carbon markets represent a win-win-win scenario; delivering benefits to local la…
Urban Food Advocates' tactics to rebuild food systems: Convergence and divergence in food security and food sovereignty discourses
Food movement advocates articulate a diversity of approaches to address the current food crisis. These approaches resonate with both food security and food sovereignty discourses and range between reform and radical rights-based theories of change. This paper draws from research with urban food advocates in Australia to provide insights into the relations between tactics to change food systems and their resonance with food security and food sover…
Carbon colonialism and the new land grab: Plantation forestry in Uganda and its livelihood impacts
Food security in Australia in an era of neoliberalism, productivism and climate change
Community Engagement to Facilitate, Legitimize and Accelerate the Advancement of Nanotechnologies in Australia
Environmental values and food choices: Views from Australian organic food consumers
A study that examines the meanings that Australian consumers associate with organic food and the implications these understandings have for understandings of the environment is presented. Understandings of organic food reveal the interconnections between healthy food and healthy environments where the food is free from chemicals, safe, familiar, natural, simple, unprocessed, fresh, and flavoursome
Globalization and Social Work: International and Local Implications
Globalization can seem a remote process, related only to the economic and commercial world. However, it impacts (differentially) on the work opportunities and living conditions of populations around the world and has also influenced thinking about welfare policies, including through state provision. It thus has implications for the practice and education of social and community workers in both affluent and poverty stricken states. In addition to …
Factors underlying support or opposition to biotechnology among Australian food consumers and implications for retailer-led food regulation
Community engagement or community action: Choosingnotto play the game
Environment movement organisations in Australia have experienced a frustrating honeymoon with deliberative governance. During the last three decades, conservationists have had increasing access to decision-making processes and forums. Since the 1980s, environmental decisions have generally involved public consultation and community engagement. Activist participants in these processes have tended, however, to over-estimate their potential to achie…
Choosing organics: A path analysis of factors underlying the selection of organic food among Australian consumers
Eating 'Green: Motivations behind organic food consumption in Australia
Central to the development of green lifestyles is the consumption of foods that by dint of their status as chemical-free, locally produced and/or free of genetically modified ingredients, reduce the environmental impact of food provision. Yet there are many other factors, such as health concerns, that may also encourage the consumption of 'green' foods. This paper explores the ways in which Australian consumers construct organic food - a sector o…
Food security in Australia in an era of neoliberalism, productivism and climate change
Carbon colonialism and the new land grab: Plantation forestry in Uganda and its livelihood impacts
Eating 'Green: Motivations behind organic food consumption in Australia
Central to the development of green lifestyles is the consumption of foods that by dint of their status as chemical-free, locally produced and/or free of genetically modified ingredients, reduce the environmental impact of food provision. Yet there are many other factors, such as health concerns, that may also encourage the consumption of 'green' foods. This paper explores the ways in which Australian consumers construct organic food - a sector o…
Choosing organics: A path analysis of factors underlying the selection of organic food among Australian consumers
Globalization and Social Work: International and Local Implications
Globalization can seem a remote process, related only to the economic and commercial world. However, it impacts (differentially) on the work opportunities and living conditions of populations around the world and has also influenced thinking about welfare policies, including through state provision. It thus has implications for the practice and education of social and community workers in both affluent and poverty stricken states. In addition to …
Constructing “green” foods: Corporate capital, risk, and organic farming in Australia and New Zealand
The new corporate enclosures: Plantation forestry, carbon markets and the limits of financialised solutions to the climate crisis
Corporate Environmentalism and Organic Agriculture in Australia: The Case of Uncle Tobys1
Recent expansion in the organic food industry represents an increasing awareness amongst an array of actors of the implications of conventional agriculture. In particular, the organic agriculture movement has been driven by both organic producers and consumers concerned about the environmental implications of food production and the health effects associated with food consumption. The recent institutionalization of the organic movement in organic…
The Rhetoric and Farmers' Lived Realities of the Green Revolution in Africa: Case Study of the Brong Ahafo Region in Ghana
This paper presents a political ecological analysis of the drivers and impacts of Green Revolution technologies - including improved seeds, chemical fertiliser and other agrochemicals - in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. We identify national government, foreign investment and philanthro-capital as key drivers in shaping both narratives and uptake of Green Revolution technologies at the local level. Drawing from interviews and focus groups, our f…
Factors underlying support or opposition to biotechnology among Australian food consumers and implications for retailer-led food regulation
Environmental values and food choices: Views from Australian organic food consumers
A study that examines the meanings that Australian consumers associate with organic food and the implications these understandings have for understandings of the environment is presented. Understandings of organic food reveal the interconnections between healthy food and healthy environments where the food is free from chemicals, safe, familiar, natural, simple, unprocessed, fresh, and flavoursome
Consuming ‘Green’: The symbolic construction of organic foods
One of the key features of the recent dramatic growth in the organic food industries is the extent to which this is demand driven, suggesting the need to focus analytical attention more closely on the agency of consumers within organic food networks. In this paper we begin by drawing from focus groups undertaken with consumers throughout Australia to examine the meanings of food they identify to be important. In order to examine the significance …
Democratizing global climate governance? The case of indigenous representation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Indigenous communities have a particular stake in climate and energy developments, and have come to occupy a central role in both the movement toward decarbonization of industrial societies and renewable energy transition. Yet they remain underrepresented and excluded from climate policy processes. This paper critically evaluates the case of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to foster inclusive decision-making, with a specific …
Community Engagement to Facilitate, Legitimize and Accelerate the Advancement of Nanotechnologies in Australia
Community engagement or community action: Choosingnotto play the game
Environment movement organisations in Australia have experienced a frustrating honeymoon with deliberative governance. During the last three decades, conservationists have had increasing access to decision-making processes and forums. Since the 1980s, environmental decisions have generally involved public consultation and community engagement. Activist participants in these processes have tended, however, to over-estimate their potential to achie…
Healthy For You, Healthy For the Environment: Corporate capital, farming practice and the construction of ‘green’ foods
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGeoffrey LawrenceGeoffrey Lawrence is Foundation Professor of Sociology and Executive Director, Institute for Sustainable Regional Development, Central Queensland University.Kristen LyonsKristen Lyons is a Doctoral student in Sociology and a Member of the Centre for Social Science Research, Central Queensland University.Stewart LockieStewart Lockie is Lecturer in Sociology and Associate Director, Centre …
Migration and refugees in Europe: Greek and British perspectives on implications for social work practice and education
One of the most significant aspects of changing social conditions is the increase in the number of people seeking to migrate relative to greater national and international restrictions on such movement. Within the framework of the European Union only some types of mobility are encouraged, and apart from EU policies, member states have different legislation and practices aimed, generally, at discouraging immigration, including of refugees. Their p…
Securing territory for mining when Traditional Owners say ‘No’: The exceptional case of Wangan and Jagalingou in Australia
Reforming global carbon markets or re-imagining alternative climate solutions and sustainabilities? An analysis of selected NGO strategies in Uganda
Carbon markets have emerged globally as a central feature in market based strategies to address the climate crisis. Global trade in carbon is based on the premise that it is possible to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and stabilise the earth's climate, while at the same time generating new forms of capital accumulation. Amongst carbon market initiatives includes Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) type projects…
Community teak forestry in Solomon Islands as donor development: When science meets culture
Urban Food Advocates' tactics to rebuild food systems: Convergence and divergence in food security and food sovereignty discourses
Food movement advocates articulate a diversity of approaches to address the current food crisis. These approaches resonate with both food security and food sovereignty discourses and range between reform and radical rights-based theories of change. This paper draws from research with urban food advocates in Australia to provide insights into the relations between tactics to change food systems and their resonance with food security and food sover…
Alternative Knowledges, Organic Agriculture, and the Biotechnology Debate
Culturally constructed knowledge claims represent multiple ways of understanding the world. Although multiple knowledges prevail, the form of knowledge that has come to predominate within Western society particularly within agriculture stems from scientific determinism, or what some have called "reductionism." This dominant form of knowledge is based on the decomposition of systems into their component parts and the reliance upon experts to under…
Healthy For You, Healthy For the Environment: Corporate capital, farming practice and the construction of ‘green’ foods
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGeoffrey LawrenceGeoffrey Lawrence is Foundation Professor of Sociology and Executive Director, Institute for Sustainable Regional Development, Central Queensland University.Kristen LyonsKristen Lyons is a Doctoral student in Sociology and a Member of the Centre for Social Science Research, Central Queensland University.Stewart LockieStewart Lockie is Lecturer in Sociology and Associate Director, Centre …
Corporate Environmentalism and Organic Agriculture in Australia: The Case of Uncle Tobys1
Recent expansion in the organic food industry represents an increasing awareness amongst an array of actors of the implications of conventional agriculture. In particular, the organic agriculture movement has been driven by both organic producers and consumers concerned about the environmental implications of food production and the health effects associated with food consumption. The recent institutionalization of the organic movement in organic…
Constructing “green” foods: Corporate capital, risk, and organic farming in Australia and New Zealand
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[Extract] Sustainability Indicators sets out to address a fundamental contradication at the heart of much contemporary planning and project appraisal. While sustainability indicators (SIs) are used to ascribe exact measures to the state of resources, pressures on those resources and management responses, sustainability itself is an immeasurable concept; a 'moving shadow'. This is not to say that SIs cannot be useful, but that their development, a…
Migration and refugees in Europe: Greek and British perspectives on implications for social work practice and education
One of the most significant aspects of changing social conditions is the increase in the number of people seeking to migrate relative to greater national and international restrictions on such movement. Within the framework of the European Union only some types of mobility are encouraged, and apart from EU policies, member states have different legislation and practices aimed, generally, at discouraging immigration, including of refugees. Their p…
Consuming ‘Green’: The symbolic construction of organic foods
One of the key features of the recent dramatic growth in the organic food industries is the extent to which this is demand driven, suggesting the need to focus analytical attention more closely on the agency of consumers within organic food networks. In this paper we begin by drawing from focus groups undertaken with consumers throughout Australia to examine the meanings of food they identify to be important. In order to examine the significance …
Eating 'Green: Motivations behind organic food consumption in Australia
Central to the development of green lifestyles is the consumption of foods that by dint of their status as chemical-free, locally produced and/or free of genetically modified ingredients, reduce the environmental impact of food provision. Yet there are many other factors, such as health concerns, that may also encourage the consumption of 'green' foods. This paper explores the ways in which Australian consumers construct organic food - a sector o…
Choosing organics: A path analysis of factors underlying the selection of organic food among Australian consumers
Factors underlying support or opposition to biotechnology among Australian food consumers and implications for retailer-led food regulation
Community engagement or community action: Choosingnotto play the game
Environment movement organisations in Australia have experienced a frustrating honeymoon with deliberative governance. During the last three decades, conservationists have had increasing access to decision-making processes and forums. Since the 1980s, environmental decisions have generally involved public consultation and community engagement. Activist participants in these processes have tended, however, to over-estimate their potential to achie…
Environmental values and food choices: Views from Australian organic food consumers
A study that examines the meanings that Australian consumers associate with organic food and the implications these understandings have for understandings of the environment is presented. Understandings of organic food reveal the interconnections between healthy food and healthy environments where the food is free from chemicals, safe, familiar, natural, simple, unprocessed, fresh, and flavoursome
Globalization and Social Work: International and Local Implications
Globalization can seem a remote process, related only to the economic and commercial world. However, it impacts (differentially) on the work opportunities and living conditions of populations around the world and has also influenced thinking about welfare policies, including through state provision. It thus has implications for the practice and education of social and community workers in both affluent and poverty stricken states. In addition to …
Community Engagement to Facilitate, Legitimize and Accelerate the Advancement of Nanotechnologies in Australia
Food security in Australia in an era of neoliberalism, productivism and climate change
Carbon markets and the new ‘Carbon Violence’: A Ugandan study
his article examines the expansion of the global carbon economy, including a critical evaluation of its local level impacts. The authors describe the growing international support for carbon markets amongst governments, international institutions and financial investors as a response to human-induced climate change. By putting a price on carbon, proponents argue that carbon markets represent a win-win-win scenario; delivering benefits to local la…
Urban Food Advocates' tactics to rebuild food systems: Convergence and divergence in food security and food sovereignty discourses
Food movement advocates articulate a diversity of approaches to address the current food crisis. These approaches resonate with both food security and food sovereignty discourses and range between reform and radical rights-based theories of change. This paper draws from research with urban food advocates in Australia to provide insights into the relations between tactics to change food systems and their resonance with food security and food sover…
Carbon colonialism and the new land grab: Plantation forestry in Uganda and its livelihood impacts
The Role of Faith-based Organizations in Environmental Governance: The Case of Forestry in Solomon Islands
Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have played a significant role in environment-related forms of development and governance in Melanesia, including the Solomon Islands. Yet despite their centrality, there remain significant gaps in understandings of processes and outcomes associated with FBO engagement in environment-related development interventions. This paper addresses this gap by analysing the place of the Christian Fellowship Church (CFC), an…
‘We would rather die in jail fighting for land, than die of hunger’: A Ugandan case study examining the deployment of corporate-led community development in the green economy
In this article we take the case study of Green Resources, a Norwegian private company engaged in plantation forestry for the production of timber and the sale of carbon credits in two Central Forest Reserves in Uganda. Drawing on fieldwork conducted during 2012 and 2013 we examine the deployment of community development by the company within the context of what is known as the green economy. Green Resources has been chosen as a case study given …
Privatising development and environmental management: Undermining social license in the Ugandan plantation forest sector
Conceptually located within the literature on privatisation of forestry, and environmental initiatives more broadly, this article examines how companies such as Green Resources in Uganda are achieving legitimacy, or failing to do so, in communities, thereby threatening what is understood as their Social License to Operate. Green Resources makes strong claims related to positive community investment, aimed towards social and environmental outcomes…
Weighing up the evidence: A response to Fischer et al
The new corporate enclosures: Plantation forestry, carbon markets and the limits of financialised solutions to the climate crisis
Community teak forestry in Solomon Islands as donor development: When science meets culture
Governing with Ignorance: Understanding the Australian Food Regulator’s Response to Nano Food
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