Author: Esteve

  • Academia in the Time of COVID-19: Towards an Ethics of Care

    Academia in the Time of COVID-19: Towards an Ethics of Care

    An extended and improved version of the post below was published in Open Access by the journal Planning Theory and Practice, and it can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2020.1757891 Covid-19 is having dramatic consequences for millions of people’s work-life balance, and academics are no exception. These are transformative times for everyone, and we do not say […]

  • Covid-19: Confined thoughts

    Covid-19: Confined thoughts

    A new day of confinement at home, one of many to come. We have organized the confinement into blocks of time. We get up at 7.30, have breakfast together and we work for a couple of hours: Pol does homework, Jana draws or plays, and I prepare my online classes, respond to emails and advance […]

  • Covid-19: Pensaments confinats

    Covid-19: Pensaments confinats

    És un nou dia de confinament a casa, un de molts que estan per venir. Hem organitzat el confinament en blocs de temps. Ens llevem a l’hora de sempre, esmorzem plegats i ens posem a ‘estudiar’ un parell d’hores: el Pol fa deures, la Jana dibuixa o juga, i jo treballo una mica. Després fem […]

  • Beyond market logics in PES

    Beyond market logics in PES

    As originally conceived, Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes provide conditional cash transfers directed to poor farmers and land users in exchange for greener land use practices that enhance carbon sequestration, water provision, or biodiversity protection. Two decades of experience with the PES approach has demonstrated that few, if any, initiatives conform to the assumptions […]

  • Climate policies, natural resources and conflict: Implications for development

    Climate policies, natural resources and conflict: Implications for development

    The journal Climate Policy has published a new special issue focused on climate change policies, natural resources management and conflict, and the linkages of these policies and processes with development in the global South. Guest edited by Dik Roth (Wageningen University), Courtney Work (National Chengchi University) and myself, the special issue encompasses eight articles which […]