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Vital ecosystem security: emergence, circulation, and the biopolitical environmental citizen

Baldwin, W.A.

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Abstract

This paper provides an account of ‘vital ecosystem security’. The central claim is that ‘vital ecosystem security’ and the processual ontology of ‘complex adaptive becoming’ provide useful terms with which to think environmental citizenship biopolitically within the contingent matrix of climate change. The paper identifies how complex adaptation, the operative form of vital ecosystem security, defines an emerging form of environmental citizenship, which can be found operating at the interface of a new type of forestry and the global carbon cycle. The specific case developed here concerns the boreal forest of northern Canada.

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Baldwin, W. (2013). Vital ecosystem security: emergence, circulation, and the biopolitical environmental citizen. Geoforum, 45, 52-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.01.002

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Mar 1, 2013
Deposit Date Jan 8, 2012
Journal Geoforum
Print ISSN 0016-7185
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 45
Pages 52-61
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.01.002
Keywords Biopolitics, Environmental citizenship, Boreal forest, Vital ecosystem security, Adaptation.