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Bram Büscher is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with a strong emphasis on subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development, Ecology, and Building and Construction.

The scientist's work focuses on key topics such as Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Geographies of human-animal interactions, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Mining and Resource Management, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Forest Management and Policy, and South African History and Culture.

Büscher has contributed to several recent papers, notable for their thematic diversity and publication venues. These include:

  • "Transformation beyond conservation: how critical social science can contribute to a radical new agenda in biodiversity conservation" (2021), published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • "Conservation and the social sciences: Beyond critique and co-optation. A case study from orangutan conservation" (2020), published in People and Nature
  • "The nonhuman turn: Critical reflections on alienation, entanglement and nature under capitalism" (2021), published in Dialogues in Human Geography
  • "Conservation basic income: A non-market mechanism to support convivial conservation" (2020), published in Biological Conservation
  • "Planning for a world beyond COVID-19: Five pillars for post-neoliberal development" (2020), published in World Development

The researcher frequently collaborates with colleagues Robert Fletcher, Stasja Koot, Lerato Thakholi, Kate Massarella, and Laila Sandroni, with multiple joint publications reflecting ongoing partnerships in these research areas.

Publication venues where Büscher has appeared multiple times include Environment and Planning E Nature and Space, Dialogues in Human Geography, Biological Conservation, Journal of Political Ecology, and Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.

In addition to articles, Büscher has authored books published by Wageningen University & Research. These include "The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene" and "The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-Truth Politics and Platform Capitalism," both released in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Towards a Synthesized Critique of Neoliberal Biodiversity Conservation

    Bram Büscher;Sian Sullivan;Katja Neves;Jim Igoe

  • From hope to crisis and back again? A critical history of the global CBNRM narrative

    Wolfram Dressler;Bram Büscher;Bram Büscher;Michael Schoon;Dan Brockington

  • Changing the intellectual climate

    Noel Castree;Noel Castree;William M. Adams;John Barry;Daniel Brockington

  • Nature™ Inc.: Changes and Continuities in Neoliberal Conservation and Market‐based Environmental Policy

    Murat Arsel;Bram Büscher

  • Why We Must Question the Militarisation of Conservation

    Rosaleen Duffy;Francis Massé;Emile Smidt;Esther Marijnen

  • Accumulation by Conservation

    Bram Büscher;Robert Fletcher

  • Half-Earth or Whole Earth? Radical ideas for conservation, and their implications

    Bram Büscher;Robert Fletcher;Dan Brockington;Chris Sandbrook

  • Towards Convivial Conservation

    Bram Büscher;Robert Fletcher

  • Toward a new understanding of the links between poverty and illegal wildlife hunting.

    Rosaleen Duffy;Freya A. V. St John;Bram Büscher;Dan Brockington

  • Green violence: Rhino poaching and the war to save Southern Africa's peace parks

    Bram Büscher;Maano Ramutsindela

  • Questioning REDD+ and the future of market-based conservation

    Robert Fletcher;Wolfram Dressler;Bram Büscher;Zachary R. Anderson

  • Whims of the Winds of Time? Emerging Trends in Biodiversity Conservation and Protected Area Management

    Bram Büscher;Webster Whande

  • Destructive creation: capital accumulation and the structural violence of tourism

    Bram Büscher;Robert Fletcher

  • Anti-Politics as Political Strategy: Neoliberalism and Transfrontier Conservation in Southern Africa

    Bram Büscher

  • Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa

    Bram Büscher

  • Social research and biodiversity conservation.

    Christopher Sandbrook;Christopher Sandbrook;William Adams;Bram Büscher;Bhaskar Vira

  • Linking Neoprotectionism and Environmental Governance: On the Rapidly Increasing Tensions between Actors in the Environment-Development Nexus

    Bram Büscher;Wolfram Dressler

  • Payments for ecosystem services as neoliberal conservation: (Reinterpreting) evidence from the Maloti-Drakensberg, South Africa

    Bram Büscher

  • The PES Conceit: Revisiting the Relationship between Payments for Environmental Services and Neoliberal Conservation

    Robert Fletcher;Bram Büscher;Bram Büscher;Bram Büscher

  • Nature Inc.: Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age

    Bram Büscher;Wolfram Heinz Dressler;Robert Fletcher

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan Brockington
Dan Brockington University of Sheffield
Rosaleen Duffy
Rosaleen Duffy University of Sheffield
Chris Sandbrook
Chris Sandbrook University of Cambridge
William M. Adams
William M. Adams University of Cambridge
Noel Castree
Noel Castree University of Technology Sydney
Lisa M. Campbell
Lisa M. Campbell Duke University
Paul Robbins
Paul Robbins University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brian Wynne
Brian Wynne Lancaster University
Arun Agrawal
Arun Agrawal University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael Archer
Michael Archer University of New South Wales

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