with Dr. Maron Greenleaf, Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Dartmouth College)

Dr. Greenleaf is a cultural anthropologist, political ecologist, and legal scholar studying human-environment relations in this time of environmental change and crisis.Her research centers on how efforts to address linked environmental crises—like climate change and biodiversity loss—shape everyday life. She is interested in how these efforts shift people’s relationships with nature, including how they interact with, understand, value, and govern it. Topics of focus include efforts to protect and restore landscapes, make nature valuable, and create “green” economies, as well as related issues of environmental justice and land rights.

Her published work has centered on green capitalism, carbon credits, deforestation, tree planting, postindustrial restoration, and energy transitions in Brazil, the US, and the UK. This work includes her first book—Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon—and collaborative work on energy justice in the United States and South America. Her current research centers on tree planting and environmental restoration in postindustrial England.