Towards
a Political-Industrial Ecology I: Methods
Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 8:00 AM -
9:40 AM in Paris North, Marker Hotel, Lobby Level
8:00 AM Author(s): *Jennifer
Baka - London School of Economics
Abstract Title: Political-Industrial
Ecology: Landscapes, Metabolisms and Livelihoods
8:20 AM Author(s): *Hanna Breetz, PhD -
Arizona State University
Abstract Title: Politicizing
Industrial Ecology: Lessons from Biofuel Regulations
8:40 AM Author(s): *Ruth Lane - Monash
University
Abstract Title: Material flow
analysis as calculative practice: Can Material Flow Analysis influence the pathways
of used electronics towards reuse or recycling?
9:00 AM Author(s): *Joshua P. Newell -
University of Michigan
Abstract Title: Methodological
Approaches in Political-Industrial Ecology
9:20 AM Author(s): *Burak Guneralp - Texas
A&M University
Karen C Seto - Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Mahesh Ramachandran - Cape Cod Commission
Abstract Title: Four
Manifestations of Urban Land Teleconnections
Session Description: This
session specifically explores the methodological foundations of industrial
ecology. It is the first of four sessions seeking to strengthen the foundations
and expand the boundaries of 'political-industrial ecology', an emergent
subfield of nature-society geography. Political ecology and industrial ecology
have emerged as prominent but distinct intellectual and methodological
approaches to understand nature-society interactions. Although these two
thought traditions approach environmental questions from different
perspectives—one broadly focusing on the politics of resource access and
control and the other quantifying material and energy flows through industrial
systems—both engage with the world as a set of interwoven systems. Industrial
ecologies, however, are not apolitical. Rather, they are interwoven with
social, political, and economic processes that shape how materials and energy
flow.
There is a growing cohort of scholars who are beginning to blend elements of
these two ecologies - industrial and political. Newell and Cousins (2014) have
explored the epistemological and methodological bases of both disciplines.
Huber (2010) has called on geographers to explore the industrial ecological
underpinnings of capitalism. Others have explored the intersections of
industrial and political ecology methods to better spatialize and embed carbon
footprints(Freidberg, 2013, 2014), infrastructure development (Cousins and
Newell, 2015), ecoindustrial parks (Gibbs and Deutz, 2005, McManus and Gibbs,
2008) and expanded urban metabolism approaches (Pincetl, 2012).
Other work has begun to explore the boundaries between industrial ecology and
political ecology through questions that explore the impacts of governance
decisions on biofuels (Bailis and Baka, 2011, Baka and Bailis, 2014) resource
mobilization and the material economy (Bridge, 2009), the socio-material
politics of urban climate governance (Rice, 2014), and the global connections
and interrelations between distant carbon emissions, regions, and economies
(Bergmann, 2013).
This session will build on this scholarship by bringing together papers to help
advance our understanding of epistemological and methodological concerns
associated with political-industrial ecology approaches.
Remaking
the global economy VI: GPNs and the environment, part 2
Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 8:00 AM -
9:40 AM in Union Square 14, Hilton Hotel, 4th Floor
8:00 AM Author(s): Andrew
Warren - University of Wollongong, Australia
*Chris Gibson - University of Wollongong
Shaun McKiernan - University of Wollongong, Australia
Abstract Title: Global
Production Networks, resource scarcity and environmental regulation: the
portentous case of acoustic guitar manufacturing
8:20 AM Author(s): *Rachel Alexander -
University of Manchester
Abstract Title: Governance
for Sustainability in Global Production Networks: Exploring the Case of UK
Retailers Sourcing Cotton Garments from India
8:40 AM Author(s): *Kuan-chi Wang -
University of Oregon
Abstract Title: Making GM
Papaya: The Global Food Network and its Regionalization
9:00 AM Author(s): *Ross William Jones,
Teaching Fellow, Geography - University of Manchester
Abstract Title: Rethinking
global production networks in a changing climate
9:20 AM Author(s): *Lasse Folke Henriksen -
Copenhagen Business School
Stefano Ponte - Copenhagen Business School
Abstract Title: The Network
Origins of the Global Aviation Biofuel Industry
Session Description: Research
on global production networks (GPNs) and global value chains (GVCs) (hereafter
GPNs) has made considerable progress in understanding how firms participate in
the global economy and the associated development outcomes. Much of this work
has long had a preoccupation with the economic dimensions of integrating into
the global economy, including through an interest in how participants can
upgrade and capture more value from participating in GPNs. Such work has helped
understand the economic governance of inter-firm relations, as well as the
societal, network and territorial embeddedness of actors in GPNs. More recently
a rapidly growing body of work has explored in greater depth the social dimensions
of incorporation in GPNs, which has had a particular emphasis on the
implications for labour. Yet research has not yet been adequately able to
conceptually and empirically study the interactions between GPNs and the
environment (Bolwig et al., 2010) and verify if and how the pursuit of
environmental upgrading may be accompanied by economic and social upgrading as
well.
Some earlier work has attempted to explore the relationships between economic
globalisation and the environment (e.g. Bridge 2002, Leichenko and O'Brien,
2008), while others have begun to investigate environmental upgrading
trajectories across various GPNs (De Marchi et al., 2013a, b, Jeppesen and
Hansen, 2004). Greater consideration of the environment and the processes of
environmental upgrading and its outcomes is of fundamental importance and could
challenge our understanding of GPNs. Further research of this kind can shed
light on sustainable production and consumption processes (a sustainable
development goal) of participants at global, regional and local scales. These
sustainability priorities require attention as firms are now prioritising green
growth and must adapt to meet private and public environmental standards as
well as consumer expectations. Meanwhile environmental movements can also
contest the activities of actors in GPNs. GPN approaches can improve our
understanding of the impact of climate change and extremes on participants, as
well as prospects for resilience.
These sessions seek to provide a platform for the investigation of various
approaches to GPNs/ GVCs and the environment.
Campus
carbon reduction: what are our strategies, obstacles, and solutions?
Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 8:00 AM -
9:40 AM in Salon II, JW Marriott Hotel, 2nd Floor
Mark D.
Bjelland - Calvin College
John Sakulich -
Regis University
Daniel
Trudeau - Macalester College
J Anthony
Abbott - Stetson University
Rebecca L.
Powell - Univesity Of Denver
Tyce Herrman -
University of Oregon
Mary Ann
Cunningham - Vassar College
Session Description: Carbon
reduction on college and university campuses is a challenge that many of us
have wrestled with. Many institutions probably have common obstacles, such as
foot-dragging administrators, tight budgets, wariness of innovation, lack of
information, shortage of professional expertise, absence of leadership, and so
on. Despite obstacles, many of us are working to engage our institutions and
push for carbon reductions. This panel session will function as an opportunity
to compare observations of obstacles and (perhaps) successful strategies around
them. How are we seeking innovation in administrative, accounting, policy,
curricular, or other activity on campus? How are we changing our classrooms,
our on-campus practices, or our research activities to work on local
sustainability?
We have two main motivations in organizing this panel: we think geographers
have contributions to make in carbon reduction and sustainability, and so we
hope to facilitate the exchange of ideas; and we believe the AAG could be
providing more organizing leadership on this front than we think it has
historically done. At this time, we think the organization should be doing
everything it can to promote climate progress. We hope to initiate a
conversation about how to deal with institutional inertia and to promote
sustainability on campus, where we hope we have leverage to influence
institutional process.
Towards a Political-Industrial
Ecology II: Politicising Industrial Ecology
Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 10:00 AM -
11:40 AM in Paris North, Marker Hotel, Lobby Level
10:00 AM Author(s): *Jia-Ching
Chen - Pennsylvania State University
Abstract Title: From
"all under heaven" to "an abandoned baby": toward a
political-industrial ecology of China's solar energy resources
10:20 AM Author(s): *Susanne E. Freidberg -
Dartmouth College
Abstract Title: The Politics
of Not Knowing: Tensions around Transparency in Industrial Food Supply Chains
10:40 AM Author(s): *Matt Huber - Syracuse
University
Abstract Title: "Something
you can feel and see": What makes industrial ecologies political?
11:00 AM Author(s): *Dustin Mulvaney - San
Jose State University
Abstract Title: Integrating
political ecology and life cycle assessment to understand solar energy
commodity chains
11:20 AM Discussant: Luke R.
Bergmann - University of Washington
Discussant(s):
Luke R.
Bergmann - University of Washington
Session Description: This
session specifically explores the politicisation of industrial ecology. It is
the second of four sessions seeking to strengthen the foundations and expand
the boundaries of 'political-industrial ecology', an emergent subfield of
nature-society geography. Political ecology and industrial ecology have emerged
as prominent but distinct intellectual and methodological approaches to
understand nature-society interactions. Although these two thought traditions
approach environmental questions from different perspectives—one broadly
focusing on the politics of resource access and control and the other quantifying
material and energy flows through industrial systems—both engage with the world
as a set of interwoven systems. Industrial ecologies, however, are not
apolitical. Rather, they are interwoven with social, political, and economic
processes that shape how materials and energy flow.
There is a growing cohort of scholars who are beginning to blend elements of
these two ecologies - industrial and political. Newell and Cousins (2014) have
explored the epistemological and methodological bases of both disciplines.
Huber (2010) has called on geographers to explore the industrial ecological
underpinnings of capitalism. Others have explored the intersections of
industrial and political ecology methods to better spatialize and embed carbon
footprints(Freidberg, 2013, 2014), infrastructure development (Cousins and
Newell, 2015), ecoindustrial parks (Gibbs and Deutz, 2005, McManus and Gibbs,
2008) and expanded urban metabolism approaches (Pincetl, 2012).
Other work has begun to explore the boundaries between industrial ecology and
political ecology through questions that explore the impacts of governance
decisions on biofuels (Bailis and Baka, 2011, Baka and Bailis, 2014) resource
mobilization and the material economy (Bridge, 2009), the socio-material politics
of urban climate governance (Rice, 2014), and the global connections and
interrelations between distant carbon emissions, regions, and economies
(Bergmann, 2013).
This session will build on this scholarship by bringing together papers to help
advance our understanding of epistemological and methodological concerns
associated with political-industrial ecology approaches.
Energy
and Environment Specialty Group Business Meeting
Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 11:50 AM -
1:10 PM in Franciscan D, Hilton Hotel, Ballroom Level
Towards
a Political-Industrial Ecology III: Energy
Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 1:20 PM -
3:00 PM in Paris North, Marker Hotel, Lobby Level
1:20 PM Author(s): *Ingrid
Behrsin - University of California, Davis
Abstract Title: "Correcting
for the Climate" and Other Artifacts of EU Waste-to-Energy Regulation
1:40 PM Author(s): *Louise Guibrunet -
Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London
Martin Sanzana Calvet - Development Planning Unit, University College
London
Vanesa Castán Broto - Development Planning Unit, University College
London
Abstract Title: The politics
of waste flows in Mexico City and Santiago de Chile: a comparative analysis
2:00 PM Author(s): *Zélia Hampikian -
LATTS
Abstract Title: From
industrial companies to energy utilities: how waste heat recovery is reshaping
urban metabolism. Insights from the case of Dunkirk (France).
2:20 PM Author(s): *Susan M.
Christopherson, Professor - Cornell University
Abstract Title: Risks Beyond
the Well Pad: The Economic Footprint of Shale Gas Development in the US
Session Description: This
session presents case studies of political-industrial ecology in the context of
energy policy. It is the third of four sessions seeking to strengthen the
foundations and expand the boundaries of 'political-industrial ecology', an
emergent subfield of nature-society geography. Political ecology and industrial
ecology have emerged as prominent but distinct intellectual and methodological
approaches to understand nature-society interactions. Although these two
thought traditions approach environmental questions from different perspectives—one
broadly focusing on the politics of resource access and control and the other
quantifying material and energy flows through industrial systems—both engage
with the world as a set of interwoven systems. Industrial ecologies, however,
are not apolitical. Rather, they are interwoven with social, political, and
economic processes that shape how materials and energy flow.
There is a growing cohort of scholars who are beginning to blend elements of
these two ecologies - industrial and political. Newell and Cousins (2014) have
explored the epistemological and methodological bases of both disciplines.
Huber (2010) has called on geographers to explore the industrial ecological
underpinnings of capitalism. Others have explored the intersections of industrial
and political ecology methods to better spatialize and embed carbon
footprints(Freidberg, 2013, 2014), infrastructure development (Cousins and
Newell, 2015), ecoindustrial parks (Gibbs and Deutz, 2005, McManus and Gibbs,
2008) and expanded urban metabolism approaches (Pincetl, 2012).
Other work has begun to explore the boundaries between industrial ecology and
political ecology through questions that explore the impacts of governance
decisions on biofuels (Bailis and Baka, 2011, Baka and Bailis, 2014) resource
mobilization and the material economy (Bridge, 2009), the socio-material
politics of urban climate governance (Rice, 2014), and the global connections
and interrelations between distant carbon emissions, regions, and economies
(Bergmann, 2013).
This session will build on this scholarship by bringing together papers to help
advance our understanding of epistemological and methodological concerns
associated with political-industrial ecology approaches.
Towards
a Political-Industrial Ecology IV: Water
Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 3:20 PM -
5:00 PM in Paris North, Marker Hotel, Lobby Level
3:20 PM Author(s): *Marion
Amalric - Université de Tours - CNRS CITERES
Claudia Cirelli - CNRS CITERES
Abstract Title: Social
representations of constructed wetlands: landscape and biodiversity issues
facing phytoremediation
3:40 PM Author(s): *Maria Christina Fragkou
- Universidad de Chile
Abstract Title: Quantifying
water related inequalities; use of the urban metabolism framework for the study
of desalination's socio-environmental impacts
4:00 PM Author(s): *Caitlin A Mcelroy,
DPhil - Oxford University
Abstract Title: Capitalism,
democracy, water, and mining corporations: understanding the tensions of managing
the ecological and industrial transitions in Mongolia
4:20 PM Author(s): *Saravanan V.
Subramanian - Centre for Development Research, University of Bonn,
Germany
Abstract Title: Socio-politics
of everyday mobility and its health implication: A multi-scale spatial-temporal
analysis of water-related diseases in Ahmedabad, India
4:40 PM Discussant: Stephanie
Pincetl - UCLA
Discussant(s):
Stephanie
Pincetl - UCLA
Session Description: This
session presents case studies of political-industrial ecology in the context of
water policy. It is the fourth of four sessions seeking to strengthen the
foundations and expand the boundaries of 'political-industrial ecology', an
emergent subfield of nature-society geography. Political ecology and industrial
ecology have emerged as prominent but distinct intellectual and methodological
approaches to understand nature-society interactions. Although these two
thought traditions approach environmental questions from different
perspectives—one broadly focusing on the politics of resource access and
control and the other quantifying material and energy flows through industrial
systems—both engage with the world as a set of interwoven systems. Industrial
ecologies, however, are not apolitical. Rather, they are interwoven with
social, political, and economic processes that shape how materials and energy
flow.
There is a growing cohort of scholars who are beginning to blend elements of
these two ecologies - industrial and political. Newell and Cousins (2014) have
explored the epistemological and methodological bases of both disciplines.
Huber (2010) has called on geographers to explore the industrial ecological
underpinnings of capitalism. Others have explored the intersections of
industrial and political ecology methods to better spatialize and embed carbon
footprints(Freidberg, 2013, 2014), infrastructure development (Cousins and
Newell, 2015), ecoindustrial parks (Gibbs and Deutz, 2005, McManus and Gibbs,
2008) and expanded urban metabolism approaches (Pincetl, 2012).
Other work has begun to explore the boundaries between industrial ecology and
political ecology through questions that explore the impacts of governance
decisions on biofuels (Bailis and Baka, 2011, Baka and Bailis, 2014) resource
mobilization and the material economy (Bridge, 2009), the socio-material
politics of urban climate governance (Rice, 2014), and the global connections
and interrelations between distant carbon emissions, regions, and economies
(Bergmann, 2013).
This session will build on this scholarship by bringing together papers to help
advance our understanding of epistemological and methodological concerns
associated with political-industrial ecology approaches.
Land
Use and Livelihoods in the United States
Thursday, 3/31/2016, from 5:20 PM -
7:00 PM in Peninsula Room, Hotel Nikko, 25th Floor
5:20 PM Author(s): *John
A. Cross, Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Abstract Title: Occupation
Patterns of Amish Settlements in Wisconsin
5:40 PM Author(s): *Christopher R. Laingen
- Eastern Illinois University
Abstract Title: The Geography
of Sorghum in the United States
6:00 PM Author(s): *John C. Hudson -
Northwestern University
Abstract Title: Geography of
Organic Agriculture in the United States
6:20 PM Author(s): *Roger F. Auch - United
States Geological Survey
Abstract Title: The Gradient
of Land-Use Intensity across the Greater Ozarks
6:40 PM Author(s): *Ryan E. Baxter - Penn
State University
Kirby Calvert, PhD - University of Guelph
Abstract Title: Estimates and
Explorations of Abandoned Cropland in the United States
Session Description: This
session will cover a broad array of topics related to rural and agricultural
land uses and livelihoods in the United States. Topics will include the
Wisconsin Amish, sorghum production, organic agriculture, land use change in
the Ozarks, and abandoned cropland and energy crops.