James Palmer

Really excited to see our first 'Peatscapes' journal article out in @progenvgeog! "Carbon futures in the mire? Knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration and remaking" Open Access link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27… #geography #sts #peat #restoration

This week we're delighted to be joined by Dr Kärg Kama & Dr James Palmer who will be presenting their new project 'Peatscapes in transition: knowledge controversies in European peatland restoration' 🗓️ 06/02 ⏰ 2pm 📍@oxfordgeography All welcome!

Review of Marion Ernwein, Franklinn Ginn, and @JamesR_Palmer's edited collection 'The Work that Plants Do' by Pei Jiang (Cambridge) out now in @SocCultGeog ! "A book that opens up possibilities for new ways of living and working with plants" shorturl.at/7bPpB

Our workshop ‘From Archives to AI: Researching and Imagining Socioenvironmental Relations’ will be held @BristolGeog on 12 Feb 2025, which includes talks by @olivia_r_mason @mattinbiglari & @jwyg , and a panel discussion chaired by Mark Jackson! Please find details below!

I've written a piece on biofuels and the potential for plants to help us rethink relationships between energy, growth and producitivity – just out in @EnvHumanities 🌿🌳🌾 Thanks to @DollyJorgensen & Franklin Ginn for making space for this! read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-…

Check out this recent @peatscapes blogpost on carbon futures for lowland peat, written by our Research Associate @AMerrillGlover. Part of the fabulous 'Seeing the Woods' blog, hosted by @CarsonCenter! cc. @LeverhulmeTrust

🥳Our second reading recommendation today is 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴' latest addition “On Moral Grounds? Carbon Futures for Lowland Peat” by former Landhaus Fellow Nye Merrill-Glover. seeingthewoods.org/2024/11/07/on-… #rccpublications #seeingthewoods #envhum #peatlands #wetlands

Delighted that this finally got to see the light a few days ago!

OnlineFirst - "Making the mos(s)t of nature? Cleantech, smart nature-based solutions, and the ‘rendering investable’ of urban moss" by @MarionErnwein and @JamesR_Palmer: @GeographyOU @BristolGeog #NatureBasedSolutions #UrbanNature #DigitalEcology #moss journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

TODAY!

Another exciting fieldtrip to Tudusoo and Laukasoo bogs, restored by @LIFEprogramme Mires of Estonia in 2015-2021. Very interesting excursions and lectures by @ELFond to learn about the complex design, long-term monitoring, and public understanding of peat restoration projects!

'Rave on for the Avon' – screening and panel discussion this Wednesday (23rd October), 2.30–4.30pm, Peel Lecture Theatre, School of Geographical Sciences. For more info, see: bristol.ac.uk/arts/events/20…

“One of the stranger things about the atmosphere of the university today is that its supposed central functions are increasingly peripheral, its peripheral ones increasingly central.” lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/octo…

Reading is now a sufficiently alien concept in UK HE to warrant inverted commas. Righto.

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Fabulous resource for teaching on energy

Please join us on Thursday 10/17 @ 11am EST for our first Energy Democracy teach-in--links to zoom session and syllabus below 🌻 @AshleyDawsonNYC @DominicBoyer @szemanimre @JeffreyInsko @JamieLJones8 @Petrocultures

Lovely to see this new piece by Susan Owens on 'Climate geographies and geographies of knowledge', just out in Transactions @RGS_IBGhe rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…. Ideal reading for students on the @BristolGeog MSc in Environmental Policy & Management 💡🔖