An oasis in a watery desert? Discourses on an industrial ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico Rigs-to-Reefs program

History and Technology 25 (December 2009): 343-364. This article explores how in the years after 1980 a spectrum of historical actors came to see petroleum platforms in the Gulf of Mexico as a necessary part of the Gulf ecosystem and how such views affected platform removal policies. Through a discourse analysis …

Sinking prospect: oil rigs and Greenpeace in the North Sea

Solutions Journal 4 (Sept 2013) This article argues that environmental discourses develop on an international stage at a particular moment in time and can create associations between issues that are not directly related. When Greenpeace, by occupying the Brent Spar, turned all eyes on the issue of dumping oil installations at …

Book reviews related to medieval natural resources or environment

Review of Harold Fox, Dartmoor’s Alluring Uplands: Transhumance and Pastoral Management in the Middle Ages, Agricultural History 89, 114–115. Review of Tom Williamson, Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval England, Canadian Journal of History 49, 487-488. Review of John Aberth, An Environmental History of the Middle Ages: The Crucible of …

Forest restoration to attract a putative umbrella species

Bell D., Hjältén J., Nilsson C. Jørgensen D. and Johansson T. 2015. Forest restoration to attract a putative umbrella species, the white-backed woodpecker, benefited saproxylic beetles. Ecosphere 6(12):278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00551.1 [Open Access] Note: I was one of the supervisor’s for D. Bell’s PhD work. I was involved in the conceptual development and …

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