II. THE FOREST

• Curtis, Philip G., Christy M. Slay, Nancy L. Harris, Alexandra Tyukavina, and Matthew C. Hansen. “Classifying Drivers of Global Forest Loss.” Science 361, no. 6407 (September 14, 2018): 1108–11. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau3445.

• Duncanson, L., M. Liang, V. Leitold, J. Armston, S. M. Krishna Moorthy, R. Dubayah, S. Costedoat, et al. “The Effectiveness of Global Protected Areas for Climate Change Mitigation.” Nature Communications 14, no. 1 (June 1, 2023): 2908. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38073-9.  

Guldi, Jo. “Introduction: Techniques of Occupancy.” In The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights, 1-35. Yale Agrarian Studies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. 

Peluso, Nancy Lee. “Whose Woods Are These? Counter-Mapping Forest Territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia.” Antipode 27, no. 4 (1995): 383–406. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.1995.tb00286.x.  

Scott, James C. “Chapter 1: Nature and Space.” In Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, 11–52. Yale Agrarian Studies. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998.  

 Vurdubakis, Theodore, and Raoni Rajão. “Envisioning Amazonia: Geospatial Technology, Legality and the (Dis)Enchantments of Infrastructure.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 5, no. 1 (March 1, 2022): 81–103. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619899788.  

• WinklerPrins, Antoinette M. G. A., and Carolina Levis. “Reframing Pre-European Amazonia through an Anthropocene Lens.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111, no. 3 (April 16, 2021): 858–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1843996.  

• Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment, “Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative.” https://www.nicfi.no/
  

Global Forest Watch. “Interactive World Forest Map & Tree Cover Change Data.”  https://www.globalforestwatch.org/map/

Hansen, M. C., P. V. Potapov, R. Moore, M. Hancher, S. A. Turubanova, A. Tyukavina, D. Thau, et al. “Global Forest Change.” https://glad.earthengine.app/view/global-forest-change

• Climate Counsel & INTERPRT, “Brazil: Atrocity Crimes in the Amazon.” https://www.brazil-crimes.org/

Readings

• Andreoni, Manuela, and Leanne Abraham. “How Much Can Forests Fight Climate Change? A Sensor in Space Has Answers.” The New York Times, December 8, 2023, sec. Climate. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/climate/forests-trees-climate-change.html.
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• Arboleda, Martín, Thomas F. Purcell, and Pablo Roblero. “Fossil Food: Landed Property as a Hidden Abode of Global Warming.” Review of International Political Economy 0, no. 0 (2023): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2023.2180769.    

• Cook-Patton, Susan C., Sara M. Leavitt, David Gibbs, Nancy L. Harris, Kristine Lister, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Russell D. Briggs, et al. “Mapping Carbon Accumulation Potential from Global Natural Forest Regrowth.” Nature 585, no. 7826 (September 2020): 545–50. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2686-x.

Gabrys, Jennifer. “Smart Forests and Data Practices: From the Internet of Trees to Planetary Governance.” Big Data & Society 7, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 2053951720904871. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951720904871.  

• Gifford, Lauren. “‘You Can’t Value What You Can’t Measure’: A Critical Look at Forest Carbon Accounting.” Climatic Change 161, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 291–306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02653-1. 
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• Greenfield, Patrick. “The ‘Carbon Pirates’ Preying on Amazon’s Indigenous Communities.” The Guardian, January 21, 2023, sec. Environment. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/21/amazon-indigenous-communities-carbon-offsetting-pirates-aoe.  
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• Harris, Nancy L., David A. Gibbs, Alessandro Baccini, Richard A. Birdsey, Sytze de Bruin, Mary Farina, Lola Fatoyinbo, et al. “Global Maps of Twenty-First Century Forest Carbon Fluxes.” Nature Climate Change 11, no. 3 (March 2021): 234–40. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-00976-6.    

Wolford, Wendy. “The Plantationocene: A Lusotropical Contribution to the Theory.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 0, no. 0 (February 11, 2021): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2020.1850231.  

Projects

• SourceMaterial. The Carbon Con. https://www.source-material.org/vercompanies-carbon-offsetting-claims-inflated-methodologies-flawed/.  

• Stand.Earth Research Group. Exit Amazon Oil and Gas. https://exitamazonoilandgas.org/
  
  
• RAISG (Amazon Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information). https://www.raisg.org/en/
  
  
• Rainforest Action Network. Banking on Climate Chaos, Annual Report. https://www.bankingonclimatechaos.org/
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• Gabrys, Jennifer et al. Smart Forests: Transforming Environments into Social-Political Technologies. https://www.smartforests.net/