🏴 Who owns Scotland's offshore wind assets?
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit
Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind
Posts by David Brown
Front page of the paper ‘Community-led landscape regeneration: A review of and framework for engagement in restoration initiatives’ published in Ambio by David Brown and Jennifer Gabrys (2025).
In this new paper, David Brown @browndee17.bsky.social and Jennifer Gabrys explore the role of communities in landscape regeneration initiatives worldwide through a systematic review: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
In her new paper, “This Machine Kills CO2,” Jennifer Gabrys considers the narrative of trees as machines, which reflects the role of technological thinking in addressing planetary crises: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New paper now online in @natureandspace.bsky.social
'Towards a transformative approach to just rural transitions: Landscape restoration in the Scottish highlands'
W/ Adrian Martin, Janet Fisher & @mathildegingembre.bsky.social
@developmentuea.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/2514...
📢new paper alert, check it out in the Journal of Rural Studies! Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America. Led by Lou Lecuyer (@inrae-france.bsky.social): authors.elsevier.com/c/1ktvo2eyKF...
🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms.
But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?
Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland closed last week with over 400 job losses, ending a century of refining. @riyokoshibe.bsky.social and I have published research in Antipode using interviews we recorded with Grangemouth workers to understand why they view the closure and redundancies as unjust.
#NewPublication #OpenAccess 🔓🌍
Decolonizing European agriculture? Research co-authored by DEV Iokiñe Rodríguez & team show how Indigenous Latin American wisdom can transform farming justice
Read this paper for free here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
Hi, BlueSky! Delighted to📣 Decolonizing Environmentalism (bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) is hitting the virtual book-shelf later this month & the bookstores in the new year. We wrote it esp. for the youth environmental & climate activists. Plz help spread the word. www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...
We're already at the point of automating the installation economy - there won't even be green jobs assembling things built somewhere else. The Transition Economy is the worse convergence of servicization and automation.