Our Research
GreenFrontier: Politics of Conservation and Unequal Ecological Exchange in the European Peripheries is a five-year research project running from 2024 to 2029 funded by the European Research Council and hosted at the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group at Wageningen University.
Conservation Opportunities
Framing marginal areas as conservation opportunities.
Wilderness as Asset
Rendering wilderness legible for green growth.
Securitization
Reordering environmental relations through strenghtened protection & enforcement.
Our Objectives
GreenFrontier has three main objectives:
1. Develop a new theoretical framework to examine the expansion of European frontiers of conservation as historical processes of unequal ecological exchange.
2. Advance decolonizing approaches to biodiversity governance on the continent by questioning the coloniality of power relations within European conservation.
3. Inform and spearhead public debate and policy interventions towards socially just conservation in Europe’s marginal areas.
How does a green growth vision based on strict protection of biodiversity affect human-environment relations in Europe's marginal areas?
The research is organised in four work packages
Work Package 1
Conceptualizing a Political Ecology of Conservation Frontiers
Work Package 2
Conservation Opportunities in Marginal Areas
Work Package 3
Mechanisms of Securitization
Work Package 4
Towards Just Conservation Alternatives