Jevgeniy Bluwstein

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• PhD
• Senior Researcher at University of Bern

The geographical concept of Lebensraum (“living space”) was coined most significantly by the German scholar Friedrich Ratzel towards the end of the nineteenth century. Through the lens of Lebensraum, Ratzel reformulated Darwin’s conception of evolution as a “struggle for life” into a “struggle for space”, highlighting how nonhuman species – as well...

Advancing future-oriented perspectives in political ecology and critical agrarian studies, this paper examines projected land use and land cover change (LULCC) dynamics in four ‘archetypal’ scenarios foregrounded by the IPCC for limiting global warming to 1.5°C by 2100. Focusing on the Global South, we explore how these archetypes project a radical...

The spatial fix of capital underpins many attempts to green(wash) capitalism. Analytically, the spatiotemporal fix concept allows us to examine how capitalism overcomes its socio-ecological crises. Here, we make an empirical-conceptual contribution by highlighting regulatory attempts to green capital by preventing it from spatially fixing itself th...

This report gives an overview of the status, the diversity and, where possible, the outcome of criminal proceedings in Swiss climate trials.

https://proclim.scnat.ch/de/for_the_media/proclim_flash/flash_80_eine_frage_von_recht_und_gerechtigkeit/verrechtlichung_der_schweizer_klimapolitik

Millions of households globally rely on uncultivated ecosystems for their livelihoods. However, much of the understanding about the broader contribution of uncultivated ecosystems to human wellbeing is still based on a series of small-scale studies due to limited availability of large-scale datasets. We pooled together 11 comparable datasets compri...

Dieser Bericht gibt einen Überblick über den Stand, die Vielfalt und, wo möglich, den Ausgang der strafrechtlichen Klimaprozesse in der Schweiz. Der Bericht ist auf humanrights.ch und jusletter.ch erschienen

published in Current Conservation

Cette contribution propose un aperçu de l'état, de la diversité et, lorsque cela est possible, de l'issue des procès d’activistes climatiques mobilisant les autorités pénales en Suisse.

Abstract Conservation research and practice are increasingly engaging with people and drawing on social sciences to improve environmental governance. In doing so, conservation engages with power in many ways, often implicitly. Conservation scientists and practitioners exercise power when dealing with species, people and the environment, and increas...

Political Ecology syllabus for MSc students in geography (or related) - would need two semesters to cover it! Will be updated from time to time. Feel free to use/modify

This chapter outlines a historical political ecology of conservation initiatives in the Tarangire Ecosystem (TE). First, I turn to chronological history to highlight the origins and the evolution of key stages in the making and expanding of conservation initiatives in the TE. Through attention to chronological history, I show how dominant ideas abo...

I suggest that to decolonize conservation we must also decolonize our way of seeing land and nature-society relations inscribed in it as landscapes. I proceed in three parts. First, drawing on insights from post- and decolonial studies, critical geography, environmental history and political ecology, I highlight three problems that underpin a lands...

Bradshaw et al. (2021) make a call to action in light of three major crises—biodiversity loss, the sixth mass extinction, and climate disruption. We have no contention with Bradshaw et al.’s diagnosis of the severity of the crises. Yet, their call for scientists to “tell it like it is,” their appeal to political “leaders,” and the great attention t...

Lange, B., Hülz, M., Schmid, B., and Schulz, C.: Postwachstumsgeographien: Raumbezüge diverser und alternativer Ökonomien, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 447 pp., ISBN 978-3-8376-5180-5, EUR 29,00, 2020.

Large-scale area-based conservation measures affect millions of people globally. Understanding their social impacts is necessary to improve effectiveness and minimize negative consequences. However, quantifying the impacts of conservation measures that affect large geographic areas and diverse peoples is expensive and methodologically challenging,...

This article illustrates how the introduction of modern geospatial surveying technology in Tanzania has failed to resolve a boundary conflict between the state and nature conservation authorities on one side and a rural community of pastoralists on the other. Far from fixing a contested geography by resurveying its boundaries and facilitating stake...

Lee and Bond (2018) claim to quantify the ecological success of a community-based wildlife conservation intervention in Tanzania. In this reply to their article, we take issue with 3 aspects of their study. First, the study inadequately equates ecological success with increased wildlife and reduced livestock densities. Second, the study fails to ad...

Since the 2000s, Tanzania’s natural resource management policy has emphasised Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs), designed to promote wildlife and biodiversity conservation, poverty alleviation and rural development. We carried out a quasi-experimental impact evaluation of social impacts of WMAs, collecting data from 24 villages participating in 6 di...

Drawing on critical debates in political ecology and biopolitics, the article develops a "biopolitical ecology of conservation" to study historical shifts in how human and nonhuman lives come to be valued in an asymmetric way. Tanzania and the so-called Tarangire-Manyara Ecosystem illustrate how these biopolitical shifts became entangled with conse...

Studies of accumulation by dispossession in the Global South tend to focus on individual sectors, for example, large-scale agriculture or nature conservation. Yet smallholder farmers and pastoralists are affected by multiple processes of land alienation. Drawing on the case of Tanzania, we illustrate the analytical purchase of a comprehensive exami...

We raise two points of contention with “When conservation goes viral: The diffusion of innovative biodiversity conservation policies and practices” in which Mascia and Mills (2018) make a case for ‘diffusion of innovation theory’ as a way of understanding how conservation interventions spread, drawing on case studies from Tanzania and the Pacific....

Tanzania’s Community Wildlife Management Areas (CWMAs) – originally called Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) – were intended to benefit both people and wildlife. However, for their first two decades, CWMAs have been characterised by land conflict, wildlife damage to people and crops, lack of tourism potential and high administration costs among oth...

Conservation and rural development are at an impasse in sub-Saharan Africa. Protected areas attract global tourism and generate foreign exchange, while rural people living around parks and reserves continue to be dependent on land and land-based resources for their livelihoods. At this impasse, conservation professionals are reconfiguring conservat...

In this paper we argue that historically emerging frontiers of conservation pave the way for continuous top–down territorialization. Drawing on a concrete case in the Selous–Niassa Corridor in Southern Tanzania, we show how a frontier emerged in the form of community-based conservation. Decades of consecutive and continuous territorialization proje...

Benjamin Gardner , Selling the Serengeti: the cultural politics of safari tourism. Athens GA: University of Georgia Press (hb US$79.95 – 978 0 8203 4507 9; pb US$25.95 – 978 0 8203 4508 6). 2016, xxviii + 208 pp. - Volume 87 Issue 3 - Jevgeniy Bluwstein

This paper explores territorial struggles around ecotourism in community-based conservation in wildlife rich Northern Tanzania. At the centre of analysis are two emblematic and distinctly different ecotourism business models that rely on a particular territorialization of property relations and resource control: one model is based on land sharing w...

There is widespread acknowledgment of the crisis nature and injustices around water quality and access in Flint since mid-2014. This crisis led to different forms of grassroots activism demanding political accountability, transparency, and redress. However, residents' experiences and their needs and demands in response to the crisis have been large...

Lions in the Balance. Man-Eaters, Manes, and Men with Guns. Packer, C. 2015. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 440 pp. $35.00 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-226-09295-9.

We explore how the regime of rules over access to land, natural, and financial resources reflects the degree of community ownership of a Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Tanzania. Being discursively associated with participatory and decentralised approaches to natural resource management, WMA policies have the ambition to promote the empowerment o...

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This policy brief summarizes recent and ongoing research on the social impacts and economic and social viability of Tanzania's community-based conservation initiative Wildlife Management Areas

GHG emissions of an extensively managed Danish organic farm were estimated upstream and on-farm. The results were compared to Danish national levels based on land area and output. Overall, the farm emitted 2.12 t CO2eq ha−1 yr−1. Excluding land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) related emissions, the combined GHG emissions from energy- an...

The paper ‘Who determines biodiversity?’ concludes that community forestry contributes to improvement of biodiversity and that this outcome is shaped by certain powerful actors. We do not find that these conclusions are adequately supported by the evidence presented and argue that the study approach overlooks key principles of impact evaluation stu...