T Selfa
Biographic Data
| ID | 57869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Selfa |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Selfa |
| SIGNATURE | SELFA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9484-8592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 203 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Sociotechnical imaginaries of gene editing in food and agriculture: A comparative content analysis of mass media in the United States, New Zealand, Japan, the Netherlands, and Canada
Sociotechnical imaginaries of gene editing in food and agriculture reflect and shape culturally particular understandings of what role technology should play in an ideal agrifood future. This study employs a comparative media content analysis to identify sociotechnical imaginaries of agricultural gene editing and the actors who perform them in five countries with contrasting regulatory and cultural contexts: Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the Nether…
Ecological modernization in practice: A multiple case study in Ecuador
Constructing counter imaginaries: A comparative analysis of social movement organizations’ framing of agricultural gene editing in the United States and European Union
The need for more inclusive deliberation on ethics and governance in agricultural and food biotechnology
An inclusive and socially legitimate governance structure is absent to address concerns over new agricultural biotechnologies. Establishing an agricultural bioethics commission devoted to inclusive deliberation on ethics and governance in agricultural and food biotechnology is urgent. Highlighting the social and ethical dimensions of current agricultural bioengineering disputes in the food system, we discuss how a nationally recognized policy for…
Identifying public trust building priorities of gene editing in agriculture and food
Regulating gene editing in agriculture and food in the European Union: Disentangling expectations and path dependencies
This study investigates how proponents and critics of gene editing in agriculture and food (GEAF) employ expectations—discourses with future‐oriented impacts—as they compete to secure desired futures and mobilise social processes and resources towards their goal of influencing GEAF (re)regulation and agro‐food systems within the EU. We draw on 27 semi‐structured interviews and 53 Euractiv media articles to identify and analyse GEAF proponents’ an…
Gene Editing in Agriculture: Social Concerns, Public Engagement, and Governance
This special issue reflects a variety of methodological and critical perspectives on contemporary issues regarding social concerns, public engagement, and governance of gene editing in agriculture
Learning impacts of policy games: Investigating role-play simulations (RPS) for stakeholder engagement in payment for hydrological services program in Veracruz, Mexico
Using science-based role-play simulations to inform payment for hydrological services program design in Mexico
From rainforest to table: Lacandon Maya women are critical to diversify landscapes and diets in Lacanjá Chansayab, Mexico
The role of situated knowledge and values in reshaping payment for hydrological services programs in Veracruz, Mexico: An actor-oriented approach
Household’s Allocation of Payment for Ecosystem Services in “La Antigua” Watershed, Veracruz, México
Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is an environmental policy looking to improve ecosystem conservation and well-being. Assets have been used to evaluate socioeconomic outcomes of the program; however, the allocation of PES at a household level and its explaining variables have not been addressed. Thus, the aim of this article is to study the allocation of PES in nondurable and durable goods and the determinants of this household decision. Resu…
Governing gene editing in agriculture and food in the United States
Biotechnologies in agriculture and food are increasingly governed by both state and nonstate actors. In this article, we explore emerging tensions and contestations in the United States over how gene-editing technologies in agriculture and food should be governed and by whom. This article is framed theoretically by the literatures examining the politics of state and nonstate governance of the agrifood and biotechnology sectors. We draw on semistr…
Place attachment and perceptions of land-use change: Cultural ecosystem services impacts of eucalyptus plantation expansion in Ubajay, Entre Ríos, Argentina
Selfa, T., V. Marini, and J. B. Abrams. 2021. Place attachment and perceptions of land-use change: cultural ecosystem services impacts of eucalyptus plantation expansion in Ubajay, Entre Ríos, Argentina. Ecology and Society 26(4):44. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12870-260444
When Payment for Ecosystem Services Meets Culture: A Culture Theory Perspective
Scholarship on payment for ecosystem services (PES) programs have often overlooked the role of culture to explain important variations in local PES governance. This paper is a first stab at introducing Cultural Theory to analyze how different cultural worldviews for natural resource management (NRM) influence PROSAPIX, a local PES program, in Mexico. We show that the government’s hierarchical worldview coexists with local historically-forged egal…
Symbolic meanings, landowner support, and dedicated bioenergy crops in the rural northeastern United States
Understanding local perceptions of the impacts of large-scale oil palm plantations on ecosystem services in the Brazilian Amazon
Emerging sociotechnical imaginaries for gene edited crops for foods in the United States: Implications for governance
How Do States Benefit from Nonstate Governance? Evidence from Forest Sustainability Certification
Forest sustainability certification is emblematic of governance mechanisms associated with neoliberal state reforms. Despite being conceived as a means of compensating for the unwillingness or inability of states to regulate forest practices, in practice, forest certification has come to entail complex and hybrid relationships between private-sector, civil society, and government actors. Indeed, states have increasingly embraced certification as …
Fuelling Social Inclusion? Neo-extractivism, State-Society Relations and Biofuel Policies in Latin America's Southern Cone
Scholarship on neo-extractivism agrees that this 'post-neoliberal' model of development is founded on an inherent contradiction between the commitment to continue natural resource extraction and the need to legitimize these activities by using their revenues for poverty reduction. Using the cases of the national biofuel policies of the 'post-neoliberal' governments of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, this article enquires why and how these policies…
Navigating the Complex Trade-Offs of Pesticide Use on Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos
Pesticide use by farmers on Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos—a perceived adaptation to changing ecological and economic dynamics—has the potential to lead to environmental degradation in an area that is known and valued worldwide for its biodiversity. We survey Santa Cruz farmers to understand motivations for and concerns about pesticide use on the island. Results from farmer surveys are supplemented with interview data to develop the case study of p…
Non-GMO vs organic labels: Purity or process guarantees in a GMO contaminated landscape
Superweeds’ or ‘survivors’? Framing the problem of glyphosate resistant weeds and genetically engineered crops
Family farming, agribusiness and the state: Building consent around oil palm expansion in post-neoliberal Brazil
The politics of imaginaries and bioenergy sub-niches in the emerging Northeast U.S. bioenergy economy
Place, Taste, or Face-to-Face? Understanding Producer–Consumer Networks in “Local” Food Systems in Washington State
The politics of imaginaries and bioenergy sub-niches in the emerging Northeast U.S. bioenergy economy
Emerging sociotechnical imaginaries for gene edited crops for foods in the United States: Implications for governance
Envisioning agricultural sustainability from field to plate: Comparing producer and consumer attitudes and practices toward ‘environmentally friendly’ food and farming in Washington State, USA
Family farming, agribusiness and the state: Building consent around oil palm expansion in post-neoliberal Brazil
Superweeds’ or ‘survivors’? Framing the problem of glyphosate resistant weeds and genetically engineered crops
Privileged access and rural vulnerabilities: Examining social and environmental exploitation in bioenergy development in the American Midwest
Framing and reframing the environmental risks and economic benefits of ethanol production in Iowa
Depoliticizing land and water “grabs” in Colombia: The limits of Bonsucro certification for enhancing sustainable biofuel practices
The Politics of Community-Based Conservation in Natural Resource Management: A Focus for International Comparative Analysis
The promotion of increased community participation in natural resource management and conservation by international and state natural resource agencies rests on the assumption that local communities that have connections to, knowledge about, and interests in proximate resources should participate in the management of those resources. By using a political ecology approach, three case studies of natural resource management are analyzed which span i…
The Politics of Building Alternative Agro-food Networks in the Belly of Agro-industry
Alternative food production and provisioning efforts are variable and their success also varies across regions. In particular, rural areas characterized by large-scale, agro-industrial forms face challenges in reconnecting resident consumers with local producers that are less apparent in urban and ex-urban areas. Our case study situates these challenges in two globalized, agro-industrial counties in rural, central Washington State. In order to un…
Promoting ethanol in rural Kansas: Local framings and cultural politics
How Do States Benefit from Nonstate Governance? Evidence from Forest Sustainability Certification
Forest sustainability certification is emblematic of governance mechanisms associated with neoliberal state reforms. Despite being conceived as a means of compensating for the unwillingness or inability of states to regulate forest practices, in practice, forest certification has come to entail complex and hybrid relationships between private-sector, civil society, and government actors. Indeed, states have increasingly embraced certification as …
Fuelling Social Inclusion? Neo-extractivism, State-Society Relations and Biofuel Policies in Latin America's Southern Cone
Scholarship on neo-extractivism agrees that this 'post-neoliberal' model of development is founded on an inherent contradiction between the commitment to continue natural resource extraction and the need to legitimize these activities by using their revenues for poverty reduction. Using the cases of the national biofuel policies of the 'post-neoliberal' governments of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, this article enquires why and how these policies…
Bioenergy experts and their imagined “obligatory publics” in the United States: Implications for public engagement and participation
Mobilizing at the Frontier: Framing Social Justice Claims in a Natural Resources Management Project in Rondônia, Brazil
Drawing on critical development studies and social movements literatures, this article analyzes how civil-society actors used practical and ideological resources to frame their situations in mobilizing for change. Focusing on a case study of a World Bank-sponsored natural resources management project in Rondoˆnia, Brazil, I examine how the discourse and policies promoting “participatory, sustainable development” have been used to achieve resource…
The role of situated knowledge and values in reshaping payment for hydrological services programs in Veracruz, Mexico: An actor-oriented approach
Place attachment and perceptions of land-use change: Cultural ecosystem services impacts of eucalyptus plantation expansion in Ubajay, Entre Ríos, Argentina
Selfa, T., V. Marini, and J. B. Abrams. 2021. Place attachment and perceptions of land-use change: cultural ecosystem services impacts of eucalyptus plantation expansion in Ubajay, Entre Ríos, Argentina. Ecology and Society 26(4):44. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12870-260444
Constructing counter imaginaries: A comparative analysis of social movement organizations’ framing of agricultural gene editing in the United States and European Union
Understanding local perceptions of the impacts of large-scale oil palm plantations on ecosystem services in the Brazilian Amazon
Non-GMO vs organic labels: Purity or process guarantees in a GMO contaminated landscape
Unruly pathogens: Eliciting values for environmental risk in the context of heterogeneous expert knowledge
Identifying public trust building priorities of gene editing in agriculture and food
Regulating gene editing in agriculture and food in the European Union: Disentangling expectations and path dependencies
This study investigates how proponents and critics of gene editing in agriculture and food (GEAF) employ expectations—discourses with future‐oriented impacts—as they compete to secure desired futures and mobilise social processes and resources towards their goal of influencing GEAF (re)regulation and agro‐food systems within the EU. We draw on 27 semi‐structured interviews and 53 Euractiv media articles to identify and analyse GEAF proponents’ an…
Using science-based role-play simulations to inform payment for hydrological services program design in Mexico
Mobilizing at the Frontier: Framing Social Justice Claims in a Natural Resources Management Project in Rondônia, Brazil
Drawing on critical development studies and social movements literatures, this article analyzes how civil-society actors used practical and ideological resources to frame their situations in mobilizing for change. Focusing on a case study of a World Bank-sponsored natural resources management project in Rondoˆnia, Brazil, I examine how the discourse and policies promoting “participatory, sustainable development” have been used to achieve resource…
Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities , by Maureen G. Reed
The Politics of Building Alternative Agro-food Networks in the Belly of Agro-industry
Alternative food production and provisioning efforts are variable and their success also varies across regions. In particular, rural areas characterized by large-scale, agro-industrial forms face challenges in reconnecting resident consumers with local producers that are less apparent in urban and ex-urban areas. Our case study situates these challenges in two globalized, agro-industrial counties in rural, central Washington State. In order to un…
Place, Taste, or Face-to-Face? Understanding Producer–Consumer Networks in “Local” Food Systems in Washington State
Envisioning agricultural sustainability from field to plate: Comparing producer and consumer attitudes and practices toward ‘environmentally friendly’ food and farming in Washington State, USA
The Politics of Community-Based Conservation in Natural Resource Management: A Focus for International Comparative Analysis
The promotion of increased community participation in natural resource management and conservation by international and state natural resource agencies rests on the assumption that local communities that have connections to, knowledge about, and interests in proximate resources should participate in the management of those resources. By using a political ecology approach, three case studies of natural resource management are analyzed which span i…
Hydrologic Interdependencies and Human Cooperation: The Process of Adapting to Droughts
The Bear River Basin, which includes portions of Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming in the United States, has a dynamic history of human hydrologic adaptations in relation to a highly variable water supply. These adaptations are embedded in a geographical setting highly influenced by the legal, policy, and institutional contexts that govern allocation of water in this generally arid region. In response to several years of drought and a historically low wat…
Unruly pathogens: Eliciting values for environmental risk in the context of heterogeneous expert knowledge
Farming Livelihoods and Landscapes: Tensions in Rural Development and Environmental Regulation
European rural development scholars have been preoccupied with how to understand the pace and scope of rural landscape change, as increasingly liberalized market economic policies and stringent environmental mandates shape contemporary landscapes and livelihoods. Recent efforts to document and theorize the new practices occurring in rural landscapes have produced two competing explanatory frameworks of rural change, one of which asserts a paradig…
Framing and reframing the environmental risks and economic benefits of ethanol production in Iowa
Depoliticizing land and water “grabs” in Colombia: The limits of Bonsucro certification for enhancing sustainable biofuel practices
Promoting ethanol in rural Kansas: Local framings and cultural politics
Bioenergy experts and their imagined “obligatory publics” in the United States: Implications for public engagement and participation
Privileged access and rural vulnerabilities: Examining social and environmental exploitation in bioenergy development in the American Midwest
Navigating the Complex Trade-Offs of Pesticide Use on Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos
Pesticide use by farmers on Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos—a perceived adaptation to changing ecological and economic dynamics—has the potential to lead to environmental degradation in an area that is known and valued worldwide for its biodiversity. We survey Santa Cruz farmers to understand motivations for and concerns about pesticide use on the island. Results from farmer surveys are supplemented with interview data to develop the case study of p…
Non-GMO vs organic labels: Purity or process guarantees in a GMO contaminated landscape
Superweeds’ or ‘survivors’? Framing the problem of glyphosate resistant weeds and genetically engineered crops
Family farming, agribusiness and the state: Building consent around oil palm expansion in post-neoliberal Brazil
The politics of imaginaries and bioenergy sub-niches in the emerging Northeast U.S. bioenergy economy
How Do States Benefit from Nonstate Governance? Evidence from Forest Sustainability Certification
Forest sustainability certification is emblematic of governance mechanisms associated with neoliberal state reforms. Despite being conceived as a means of compensating for the unwillingness or inability of states to regulate forest practices, in practice, forest certification has come to entail complex and hybrid relationships between private-sector, civil society, and government actors. Indeed, states have increasingly embraced certification as …
Fuelling Social Inclusion? Neo-extractivism, State-Society Relations and Biofuel Policies in Latin America's Southern Cone
Scholarship on neo-extractivism agrees that this 'post-neoliberal' model of development is founded on an inherent contradiction between the commitment to continue natural resource extraction and the need to legitimize these activities by using their revenues for poverty reduction. Using the cases of the national biofuel policies of the 'post-neoliberal' governments of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, this article enquires why and how these policies…
Symbolic meanings, landowner support, and dedicated bioenergy crops in the rural northeastern United States
Understanding local perceptions of the impacts of large-scale oil palm plantations on ecosystem services in the Brazilian Amazon
Emerging sociotechnical imaginaries for gene edited crops for foods in the United States: Implications for governance
When Payment for Ecosystem Services Meets Culture: A Culture Theory Perspective
Scholarship on payment for ecosystem services (PES) programs have often overlooked the role of culture to explain important variations in local PES governance. This paper is a first stab at introducing Cultural Theory to analyze how different cultural worldviews for natural resource management (NRM) influence PROSAPIX, a local PES program, in Mexico. We show that the government’s hierarchical worldview coexists with local historically-forged egal…
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