George Perkins Marsh Institute

Jacque "Jody" Emel
Research Associate Professor

The George Perkins Marsh Institute
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477
508.793.7317 phone
email: jemel@clarku.edu

Curriculum Vitae
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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 M. Huber. Forthcoming. Risky business: Mining, rent, and the neoliberalization of risk. Geoforum.

Huber, M. and J. Emel. Forthcoming. Fixed minerals, scalar politics: The weight of scale in conflicts over natural resource ownership and distribution of wealth. Environment and Planning A.

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., G. Bridge and R. Krueger. 2003. The earth as input: Resources. In Geographies of Global Change, eds. M. Watts, P. Taylor, and R. J. Johnston, 377-390. Blackwell.

Emel, J. 2002. An inquiry into the green financial disciplining of capital. Environment and Planning A 34 no. 5: 827-843.

Brooks, E. and J. Emel. 2000. North American Llano Estacado: Environmental Transformation and Potential for Sustainability. UN University Press.