Andrew Flachs wrote a new review article in the Journal of Ethnobiology that explores how empirical and descriptive case studies in human-environmental relationships can contribute to a growing field of environmental economics. The paper, “Ethnobiology and Degrowth: A Review of the Opportunities for Collaboration, Generative Inquiry, and Solidarity in Socio-Ecological Research” reviews key points of[Read More…]
A new publication co-writtened by Andrew Flachs and Steve Hallett called GM Crops and the Jevons Paradox: Induced Innovation, Systemic Effects and Net Pesticide Increases From Pesticide-Decreasing Crops has been published in the Journal of Agrarian Change. The paper looks at global herbicide data and at Bt cotton in India to describe an irony: in lowering the[Read More…]
Andrew Flachs (Associate Professor of Anthropology with courtesy appointment in HLA) and graduate student colleagues recently published a paper in Outlook on Agriculture: Skilling and social reproduction. The paper is part of a special issue on farmer learning, and talks about the larger social and environmental contexts in which farmers learn. Dr. Flachs and colleagues[Read More…]