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Overview

Paul Robbins is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, with a significant focus on medicine, ecology, immunology, molecular biology, and genetics. Within these fields, their subfields include oncology, ecology, immunology, molecular biology, and genetics.

The main topics covered in Robbins's work involve CAR-T cell therapy research, immunotherapy and immune responses, bird parasitology and diseases, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, race, genetics, and society, as well as international maritime law issues and broader ecology and biodiversity studies.

Robbins has contributed to several peer-reviewed papers published across a variety of venues. Notable papers include:

  • "Green Sacrifice Zones, or Why a Green New Deal Cannot Ignore the Cost Shifts of Just Transitions" (2020), published in One Earth
  • "Intended consequences statement" (2021), published in Conservation Science and Practice
  • "Sovereign genes: wildlife conservation, genetic preservation, and Indigenous data sovereignty" (2023), published in Frontiers in Conservation Science
  • "Coffee, Trees, and Labor: Political Economy of Biodiversity in Commodity Agroforests" (2020), published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • "Why intended consequences?" (2021), published in Conservation Science and Practice

Frequent publication venues featuring Robbins's work include Conservation Science and Practice, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), One Earth, Frontiers in Conservation Science, and the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

Robbins has collaborated with several researchers on multiple occasions. Frequent coauthors include Ryan M. Phelan, Peter Kareiva, Michelle Marvier, Francisco Pelegri, and Michele Weber.

Best Publications

  • Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction

    Paul Robbins

  • Global Political Ecology

    Richard Peet;Paul Robbins;Michael Watts

  • Changing the intellectual climate

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

  • The Intersections of Biological Diversity and Cultural Diversity: Towards Integration

    Jules Pretty;Bill Adams;Fikret Berkes;Simone Ferreira de Athayde

  • The neoliberalization of nature: Governance, privatization, enclosure and valuation

    Nik Heynen;Paul Robbins

  • Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are

    Paul Robbins

  • The rotten institution: corruption in natural resource management

    Paul Robbins

  • Beyond Bias? The Promise and Limits of Q Method in Human Geography

    Paul Robbins;Rob Krueger

  • Land-Change Science and Political Ecology: Similarities, Differences, and Implications for Sustainability Science

    Billie Turner;Paul Robbins

  • Turfgrass revolution: measuring the expansion of the American lawn

    Paul Robbins;Trevor Birkenholtz

  • Lawns and Toxins: An Ecology of the City

    Paul Robbins;Annemarie Polderman;Trevor Birkenholtz

  • Ecological anxiety disorder: diagnosing the politics of the Anthropocene

    Paul Robbins;Sarah A. Moore

  • Green Sacrifice Zones, or Why a Green New Deal Cannot Ignore the Cost Shifts of Just Transitions

    Christos Zografos;Christos Zografos;Paul Robbins

  • Producing and Consuming Chemicals: The Moral Economy of the American Lawn

    Paul Robbins;Julie T. Sharp

  • The politics of barstool biology: Environmental knowledge and power in greater Northern Yellowstone

    Paul Robbins

  • Beyond ground truth: GIS and the environmental knowledge of herders, professional foresters, and other traditional communities

    Paul Robbins

  • Fixed categories in a portable landscape: the causes and consequences of land-cover categorization

    Paul Robbins

  • Tracking Invasive Land Covers in India or Why Our Landscapes Have Never Been Modern

    Paul Robbins

  • The Practical Politics of Knowing: State Environmental Knowledge and Local Political Economy*

    Paul Robbins

  • COMPARING INVASIVE NETWORKS: CULTURAL AND POLITICAL BIOGRAPHIES OF INVASIVE SPECIES*

    Paul Robbins

  • Global assemblages, resilience, and Earth Stewardship in the Anthropocene

    Laura Ogden;Nick Heynen;Ulrich Oslender;Paige West

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Watts
Michael Watts Brunel University London
Nancy Lee Peluso
Nancy Lee Peluso University of California, Berkeley
Tor A. Benjaminsen
Tor A. Benjaminsen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Marco A. Janssen
Marco A. Janssen Arizona State University
Tomas M. Koontz
Tomas M. Koontz University of Washington
Noel Castree
Noel Castree University of Technology Sydney
Jules Pretty
Jules Pretty University of Essex
Fikret Berkes
Fikret Berkes University of Manitoba
Susan Clayton
Susan Clayton College of Wooster
Oliver A. Ryder
Oliver A. Ryder University of California, San Diego

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