Current Research Interests
- The cultural politics and social construction of animals in society.
- The effects of environmental activists on the greening and spatial organization of the gold mining industry.
- Water resource use in global cotton production.
Selected Publications
Emel, J. and J. Urbanik. 2005. A new species of capital. In A companion to feminist geography, eds. L. Nelson and J. Seager, 445-457. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Emel, J. and R. Krueger. 2003. Spoken but not heard: The promise of the precautionary principle for natural resource development. Local Environment 8 no. 1: 9-25.
Emel, J., C. Wilbert and J. Wolch. 2003. Animal geographies. Society and Animals 11 no. 1: 68-74.
Emel, J. 2002. An inquiry into the green financial disciplining of capital. Environment and Planning A 34 no. 5: 827-843.
Benjamin, P., J.X. Kasperson, R.E. Kasperson, J. Emel and D. Rocheleau. 2001. Social visions of future sustainable societies. In Global environmental risk, eds. J.X. Kasperson and R.E. Kasperson, 467-505. London: Earthscan
Wolch, J. and J. Emel. 1998 Animal geographies: Politics, place, and identity in the nature-culture borderlands. London: Verso Press.
Emel, J. 1995. Are you man enough, big and bad enough: An ecofeminist analysis of wolf eradication in the United States. Society and Space: Environment and Planning D 13: 707-734.
Emel, J., D. Angel and G. Bridge. 1995. New models of exhaustible resource development. Business Strategies and Greening 4: 200-207.
Emel, J. and G. Bridge. 1995. The earth as input. In A world in crisis, eds. R. Johnston, P. Taylor and M. Watts, 318-332. Oxford and Cambridge: Basil Blackwell Press.
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