Environment, Management and Society Research Group

The Environment, Management and Society Research Group was active between 2008 to 2016.

Its most significant outputs have been

• Limits to Managing the Environment (2011): Edited book section ‘Part III’, comprising chapters 18 – 22 (by different members of our group), in Implementing Environmental and Resource Management (Springer)
• Environmental Management as Situated Practice (2015): a Geoforum Special Issue featuring six research articles (download bundle) and a substantive introduction (alternative Open Access link) that
• Reviews empirical studies of EM from political ecology and management studies.
• Introduces “situated practice” as generative framing for empirical studies of EM.
• Foregrounds EM workers and their agencies in configuring environmental realities.
• Draws general conclusions and relates them to post-constructivist “cosmopolitics”.

Members

• Ingmar Lippert (initiator and facilitator of the collective)
• has completed a PhD on corporate carbon accounting, entitled "Enacting Environments: An Ethnography of the Digitalisation and Naturalisation of Emissions"
• currently at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt, conducting teaching and research engaged at the intersection of environmental governance, critical ethnography and digitalisation
• Franz Krause
• has completed a PhD, entitled "Thinking like a river: An anthropology of water and its uses along the Kemi River, Northern Finland"
• currently heading the DELTA - Volatile waters and the hydrosocial anthropocene in major river deltas research group at the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne
• Niklas Hartmann
• did research on the ecosystem services concept at Lancaster University;
• now works in research support at University of Potsdam. He heads the institutional research data management team and is one of the library's subject specialists for the sciences.
• Anup Sam Ninan
• has completed a PhD on how economic value is generated and exchanged in carbon emissions as part of the UNFCCC emissions trading mechanisms, entitled "By Carbon They Swear! Sustainability in Climate Change"
• currently an entrepreneur and organisational anthropologist
• Hannah Strauss
• has completed a PhD on public participation in large scale energy siting procedures, entitled "For the Good of Society: Public participation in the siting of nuclear and hydro power projects in Finland"
• and has worked at the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland
• Anna Schreuer
• has completed a PhD on "Dealing with the diffusion challenges of grassroots innovations: the case of citizen power plants in Austria and Germany"
• currently working at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture (IFZ), in Graz

Network

The EMS-RG operated within a friendly collaborative institutional environment with close links to the

• Centre for the Study of Environmental Change, Lancaster
• Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster
• Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society

Meetings

The group has been part of the following meetings and conference sessions

• organised workshop: Environmental Management: More of the Same or Time for Change? – Confronting the Manageability Paradigm; Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus (2008). Output, book section in Implementing Environmental and Resource Management
• organised workshop: Ethnography as a Method for Scrutinising Realities; in collaboration with Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), Bremen University (2008)
• organised and facilitated conference stream: Possibilities of how sustainable development is rendered political through science and technology; 8th Annual IAS-STS Conference Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies, Graz (2009); resulting in the review chapter "Latour's Gaia - Not down to Earth? Social Studies of Environmental Management for Grounded Understandings of the Politics of Human-Nature Relationships"
• organised workshop: How do you manage? Unravelling the situated practice of environmental management; Bielefeld University Institute for Advanced Studies/Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) (2012); funded by Volkswagen Foundation and ZiF. Output, Geoforum SI
• organised workshop: Doing Environments: Social Studies of the Techno-managerial Enactment of Natures; funded by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology and Tallinn University's Uuringufond (2013)