Monthly Archives: April 2013

Welcome to the new hugeog.com!

On behalf of the Human Geography editorial committee, I’m pleased to welcome you to the new hugeog.com. In addition to a new design concept, we’ve updated much of our backend system — the site functions in largely the same manner
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Grabbing “Green”: Markets, Environmental Governance and the Materialization of Natural Capital

Catherine Corson, Kenneth Iain MacDonald, Benjamin Neimark Over the past two decades, the incorporation of market logics into environment and conservation policy has led to a reconceptualization of “nature.” Resulting constructs like ecosystem services and biodiversity derivatives, as well as
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  • Volume 6, Number 1 (2013)

Consume, Connect, Conserve: Consumer Spectacle and the Technical Mediation of Neoliberal Conservation’s Aesthetic of Redemption and Repair

Jim Igoe Global green grabs are facilitated by a logic in which environmental damage of economic growth is putatively mitigated by environmental repair elsewhere (Fairhead, Leach, and Scoones 2012: 242). A remarkably similar logic informs green consumption, whereby “the very
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  • Volume 6, Number 1 (2013)
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