Véra Ehrenstein
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 109867 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Véra Ehrenstein |
| PRENOMES | Véra |
| SOBRENOME | Ehrenstein |
| ASSINATURA | EHRENSTEIN V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3415-3254 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
What do we see when we look through the “anthromes lens”
Societal Impact Statement The environmental impacts of anthropogenic activities are planetary in scale. The study of human‐environment relations now involves global datasets about social factors. We discuss one of such datasets organized around land use categories called “anthromes”. These categories are used for mapping the terrestrial biosphere throughout history according to human population and agricultural land uses. This opinion piece exami…
The logic of carbon substitution
This paper examines how researchers in biotechnology reflect on the challenges of turning microbes into what they call “cell factories”. These researchers use the tools of genome editing to harness the biochemistry of single cell organisms, such as bacteria, yeasts and microalgae, and tweak the enzymatic reactions of their metabolism. One research priority is to engineer microbes able to feed on agricultural residues and assemble drop-in compound…
Forests high on CO 2
Are forests across the planet storing more carbon as a result of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) concentration? In this text, I propose to reflect on the work of researchers who are asking that very question. The focus is on a particular approach called free-air CO 2 enrichment (FACE) experiments, in which forests in their local environment are subjected to a CO 2 concentration higher than in the ambient air, to test the CO 2 fertilizat…
Anthromes, CO2 and Terrestrial Carbon – Session 10
1.30 - 1.50: Tropical forest carbon in an unequal world: a social science perspective, Vera Ehrenstein - Due to technical difficulties Vera's presentation will be re-recorded and posted at a later date. 1.50 - 2.10: Future forest growth in the UK – a case study of supporting land use decisions for net zero, Anna Harper 2.10 - 2.30: Showcasing NASA GEDI mission data for aboveground carbon monitoring and evaluation of carbon losses from LULC events…
Quality offsets? A commentary on the voluntary carbon markets
From Big Tech to Oil Majors, companies are increasingly resorting to the voluntary purchase of carbon credits to offset their greenhouse gas emissions and make claims about their carbon neutrality. Yet, the credibility of offsetting as a solution to climate change remains contested. From the outset, that is, since the mid-2000s, the voluntary carbon markets have been criticised, as we discuss in this commentary, which stems from our long-standing…
Economic under-determination
Tackling climate change has provided a key focus for the creation of what the editors of this special issue have termed ‘environmental intangibles.’ This paper focuses on the European Union Emissions Trading System (EUETS), a climate policy that revolves around the issuance and trading of environmental intangibles called emissions allowances. Set up in the mid-2000s, the cap and trade system has experienced many complications. We propose here to …
On the difficulties of addressing collective concerns through markets
In recent years market-based interventions have been positioned as the basis for addressing what the editors of this special issue have termed 'collective concerns' in fields as diverse as healthcare, the environment and crime. This paper considers the terms of such interventions and the market-like relations these terms pre-suppose. It does so through a comparison of two interventions: a market-based scheme to address concerns regarding electron…
Mundane market matters
Markets continue to be a matter of concern for both scholars and the public at large. Financial trading and meltdowns, public sell-offs and regulation, demands for intervention and access to trade, all continue to provide focal points for orienting a range of questions. As we sit in our offices in London writing this introduction, a quick glance at one news source reveals dramatic and compelling headlines that vie for our attention regarding the …
The friction of the mundane
Carbon dioxide released from the burning of fossil fuels is a major concern of our times. There is now a political agreement that these emissions must decrease. So far one way forward has been to design and maintain carbon markets. As part of this process, trees in the tropics have been enrolled in peculiar transactions: actions such as reforesting a land of degraded savannah or preserving a piece of forest can produce tradable emission credits t…
Carbon sink geopolitics
This paper explores an example of global politics in action by attending to the modalities and outcomes of United Nations negotiations on global warming. More precisely, the paper ethnographically traces how the capacity of tropical forests to act as carbon sinks is turned into a matter of global concern. The focus is on a negotiated policy called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) and its anchoring in the Democr…
On scale work
Scalability can be understood as the ability to expand without changing. Yet, expanding an intervention to a global scale, we suggest, is a significant and difficult accomplishment. In this paper we propose to explore the kind of evidential exigencies that this accomplishment involves. To do so, we focus on the field of global health and examine how child immunization against the pneumococcus bacterium has been scaled up in low-income countries. …
Mundane Market Matters
This article explores how market-based interventions designed to solve public \nproblems, produce new configurations of governance. Our point of focus is on the mundane \ndevices and practices which are crucial to enacting market-based interventions. These \ndevices and practices are given a regulatory purpose through forms of counting and \naccounting for various sorts of mundane actions; what we term mundane metrology. This \ncreates divisions …
Des principes agroécologiques à leur mise en pratique
Le terme d’« agroécologie » est de plus en plus mobilisé lorsque l’avenir de l’agriculture est discuté par les bailleurs de fonds publics intervenant dans les pays en développement. En principe, cette forme d’agriculture devrait répondre aux dommages environnementaux attribués au mode intensif de développement agricole promu par ce qui est couramment appelé la « révolution verte ». Cet article examine comment différentes approches inspirées de l’…
The Danish National Patient Registry
BACKGROUND: The Danish National Patient Registry (DNPR) is one of the world's oldest nationwide hospital registries and is used extensively for research. Many studies have validated algorithms for identifying health events in the DNPR, but the reports are fragmented and no overview exists. OBJECTIVES: To review the content, data quality, and research potential of the DNPR. METHODS: We examined the setting, history, aims, content, and classificati…
Les professionnels de la préparation. Aider la République Démocratique du Congo à réduire sa déforestation
Cet article, basé sur une enquête ethnographique, traite des « professionnels de la préparation » qui, en République démocratique du Congo ( rdc ), sont chargés de préparer le pays à réduire sa déforestation (Programme redd +). Ces professionnels sont des acteurs expatriés de l’Aide au développement, caractérisés par leur mobilité géographique et l’adaptabilité de leur savoir-faire. L’article propose de les étudier en restituant différentes mises…
The Conditional Sink
This paper examines counterfactual display in the valuation of carbon offsetting projects. Considered a legitimate way to encourage climate change mitigation, such projects rely on the establishment of procedures for the prospective assessment of their capacity to become carbon sinks. This requires imagining possible worlds and assessing their plausibility. The world inhabited by the project is articulated through conditional formulation and subj…
Apgar score and hospitalization for epilepsy in childhood
Background A depressed Apgar score at 5 minutes is a marker for perinatal insults, including neurologic damage. We examined the association between 5-minute Apgar score and the risk of epilepsy hospitalization in childhood. Methods Using records linked from population registries, we conducted a cohort study among singleton children born alive in the period 1978–2001 in North Jutland County, Denmark. The first hospital discharge diagnosis of epile…
On scale work
Scalability can be understood as the ability to expand without changing. Yet, expanding an intervention to a global scale, we suggest, is a significant and difficult accomplishment. In this paper we propose to explore the kind of evidential exigencies that this accomplishment involves. To do so, we focus on the field of global health and examine how child immunization against the pneumococcus bacterium has been scaled up in low-income countries. …
Carbon sink geopolitics
This paper explores an example of global politics in action by attending to the modalities and outcomes of United Nations negotiations on global warming. More precisely, the paper ethnographically traces how the capacity of tropical forests to act as carbon sinks is turned into a matter of global concern. The focus is on a negotiated policy called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) and its anchoring in the Democr…
On the difficulties of addressing collective concerns through markets
In recent years market-based interventions have been positioned as the basis for addressing what the editors of this special issue have termed 'collective concerns' in fields as diverse as healthcare, the environment and crime. This paper considers the terms of such interventions and the market-like relations these terms pre-suppose. It does so through a comparison of two interventions: a market-based scheme to address concerns regarding electron…
Quality offsets? A commentary on the voluntary carbon markets
From Big Tech to Oil Majors, companies are increasingly resorting to the voluntary purchase of carbon credits to offset their greenhouse gas emissions and make claims about their carbon neutrality. Yet, the credibility of offsetting as a solution to climate change remains contested. From the outset, that is, since the mid-2000s, the voluntary carbon markets have been criticised, as we discuss in this commentary, which stems from our long-standing…
Mundane market matters
Markets continue to be a matter of concern for both scholars and the public at large. Financial trading and meltdowns, public sell-offs and regulation, demands for intervention and access to trade, all continue to provide focal points for orienting a range of questions. As we sit in our offices in London writing this introduction, a quick glance at one news source reveals dramatic and compelling headlines that vie for our attention regarding the …
The friction of the mundane
Carbon dioxide released from the burning of fossil fuels is a major concern of our times. There is now a political agreement that these emissions must decrease. So far one way forward has been to design and maintain carbon markets. As part of this process, trees in the tropics have been enrolled in peculiar transactions: actions such as reforesting a land of degraded savannah or preserving a piece of forest can produce tradable emission credits t…
Economic under-determination
Tackling climate change has provided a key focus for the creation of what the editors of this special issue have termed ‘environmental intangibles.’ This paper focuses on the European Union Emissions Trading System (EUETS), a climate policy that revolves around the issuance and trading of environmental intangibles called emissions allowances. Set up in the mid-2000s, the cap and trade system has experienced many complications. We propose here to …
Mundane Market Matters
This article explores how market-based interventions designed to solve public \nproblems, produce new configurations of governance. Our point of focus is on the mundane \ndevices and practices which are crucial to enacting market-based interventions. These \ndevices and practices are given a regulatory purpose through forms of counting and \naccounting for various sorts of mundane actions; what we term mundane metrology. This \ncreates divisions …
Apgar score and hospitalization for epilepsy in childhood
Background A depressed Apgar score at 5 minutes is a marker for perinatal insults, including neurologic damage. We examined the association between 5-minute Apgar score and the risk of epilepsy hospitalization in childhood. Methods Using records linked from population registries, we conducted a cohort study among singleton children born alive in the period 1978–2001 in North Jutland County, Denmark. The first hospital discharge diagnosis of epile…
Les professionnels de la préparation. Aider la République Démocratique du Congo à réduire sa déforestation
Cet article, basé sur une enquête ethnographique, traite des « professionnels de la préparation » qui, en République démocratique du Congo ( rdc ), sont chargés de préparer le pays à réduire sa déforestation (Programme redd +). Ces professionnels sont des acteurs expatriés de l’Aide au développement, caractérisés par leur mobilité géographique et l’adaptabilité de leur savoir-faire. L’article propose de les étudier en restituant différentes mises…
The Conditional Sink
This paper examines counterfactual display in the valuation of carbon offsetting projects. Considered a legitimate way to encourage climate change mitigation, such projects rely on the establishment of procedures for the prospective assessment of their capacity to become carbon sinks. This requires imagining possible worlds and assessing their plausibility. The world inhabited by the project is articulated through conditional formulation and subj…
The Danish National Patient Registry
BACKGROUND: The Danish National Patient Registry (DNPR) is one of the world's oldest nationwide hospital registries and is used extensively for research. Many studies have validated algorithms for identifying health events in the DNPR, but the reports are fragmented and no overview exists. OBJECTIVES: To review the content, data quality, and research potential of the DNPR. METHODS: We examined the setting, history, aims, content, and classificati…
Des principes agroécologiques à leur mise en pratique
Le terme d’« agroécologie » est de plus en plus mobilisé lorsque l’avenir de l’agriculture est discuté par les bailleurs de fonds publics intervenant dans les pays en développement. En principe, cette forme d’agriculture devrait répondre aux dommages environnementaux attribués au mode intensif de développement agricole promu par ce qui est couramment appelé la « révolution verte ». Cet article examine comment différentes approches inspirées de l’…
Mundane Market Matters
This article explores how market-based interventions designed to solve public \nproblems, produce new configurations of governance. Our point of focus is on the mundane \ndevices and practices which are crucial to enacting market-based interventions. These \ndevices and practices are given a regulatory purpose through forms of counting and \naccounting for various sorts of mundane actions; what we term mundane metrology. This \ncreates divisions …
Mundane market matters
Markets continue to be a matter of concern for both scholars and the public at large. Financial trading and meltdowns, public sell-offs and regulation, demands for intervention and access to trade, all continue to provide focal points for orienting a range of questions. As we sit in our offices in London writing this introduction, a quick glance at one news source reveals dramatic and compelling headlines that vie for our attention regarding the …
The friction of the mundane
Carbon dioxide released from the burning of fossil fuels is a major concern of our times. There is now a political agreement that these emissions must decrease. So far one way forward has been to design and maintain carbon markets. As part of this process, trees in the tropics have been enrolled in peculiar transactions: actions such as reforesting a land of degraded savannah or preserving a piece of forest can produce tradable emission credits t…
Carbon sink geopolitics
This paper explores an example of global politics in action by attending to the modalities and outcomes of United Nations negotiations on global warming. More precisely, the paper ethnographically traces how the capacity of tropical forests to act as carbon sinks is turned into a matter of global concern. The focus is on a negotiated policy called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) and its anchoring in the Democr…
On scale work
Scalability can be understood as the ability to expand without changing. Yet, expanding an intervention to a global scale, we suggest, is a significant and difficult accomplishment. In this paper we propose to explore the kind of evidential exigencies that this accomplishment involves. To do so, we focus on the field of global health and examine how child immunization against the pneumococcus bacterium has been scaled up in low-income countries. …
On the difficulties of addressing collective concerns through markets
In recent years market-based interventions have been positioned as the basis for addressing what the editors of this special issue have termed 'collective concerns' in fields as diverse as healthcare, the environment and crime. This paper considers the terms of such interventions and the market-like relations these terms pre-suppose. It does so through a comparison of two interventions: a market-based scheme to address concerns regarding electron…
Economic under-determination
Tackling climate change has provided a key focus for the creation of what the editors of this special issue have termed ‘environmental intangibles.’ This paper focuses on the European Union Emissions Trading System (EUETS), a climate policy that revolves around the issuance and trading of environmental intangibles called emissions allowances. Set up in the mid-2000s, the cap and trade system has experienced many complications. We propose here to …
Quality offsets? A commentary on the voluntary carbon markets
From Big Tech to Oil Majors, companies are increasingly resorting to the voluntary purchase of carbon credits to offset their greenhouse gas emissions and make claims about their carbon neutrality. Yet, the credibility of offsetting as a solution to climate change remains contested. From the outset, that is, since the mid-2000s, the voluntary carbon markets have been criticised, as we discuss in this commentary, which stems from our long-standing…
Anthromes, CO2 and Terrestrial Carbon – Session 10
1.30 - 1.50: Tropical forest carbon in an unequal world: a social science perspective, Vera Ehrenstein - Due to technical difficulties Vera's presentation will be re-recorded and posted at a later date. 1.50 - 2.10: Future forest growth in the UK – a case study of supporting land use decisions for net zero, Anna Harper 2.10 - 2.30: Showcasing NASA GEDI mission data for aboveground carbon monitoring and evaluation of carbon losses from LULC events…
The logic of carbon substitution
This paper examines how researchers in biotechnology reflect on the challenges of turning microbes into what they call “cell factories”. These researchers use the tools of genome editing to harness the biochemistry of single cell organisms, such as bacteria, yeasts and microalgae, and tweak the enzymatic reactions of their metabolism. One research priority is to engineer microbes able to feed on agricultural residues and assemble drop-in compound…
Forests high on CO 2
Are forests across the planet storing more carbon as a result of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) concentration? In this text, I propose to reflect on the work of researchers who are asking that very question. The focus is on a particular approach called free-air CO 2 enrichment (FACE) experiments, in which forests in their local environment are subjected to a CO 2 concentration higher than in the ambient air, to test the CO 2 fertilizat…
What do we see when we look through the “anthromes lens”
Societal Impact Statement The environmental impacts of anthropogenic activities are planetary in scale. The study of human‐environment relations now involves global datasets about social factors. We discuss one of such datasets organized around land use categories called “anthromes”. These categories are used for mapping the terrestrial biosphere throughout history according to human population and agricultural land uses. This opinion piece exami…
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