This article discusses the need to broaden the debate about land rush by including a few key issues that have been neglected. Control over land is increasingly dictated by global actors and processes, leading to a patchwork of locally disembedded land holdings, not conducive for inclusive and sustainable development at the local level.

In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Alda Balthrop-Lewis is interviewed on her recent book, Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism.

The author explores the governance challenges that practitioners face when restoring forest landscapes, and the points of intersection between forest landscape restoration and governance.

There is an urgency and a fracture to Australian environmental history…