Biography
My main research interest is the investigation of nature-society relationships in capitalism with an emphasis on the political ecology of nature conservation and urban political ecology. My current research is mainly guided by radical geographical research on the neoliberalisation of nature and neoliberal conservation, uneven development and the capitalist production of nature and space, planetary urbanisation, social-environmental justice and grassroots innovation.
Research
My current research mainly focuses on i) the neoliberalization of nature in post-crisis Europe and neoliberal conservation with an emphasis on free market environmentalism and environmental markets, ii) environmental offsetting and extended urbanization, iii) environmental movements in the post-crisis era with an emphasis on the right to the city and how it can be linked to the right to nature, and iv) critical political economy, particularly on an analysis of the commodification of nature from the perspective of the theory of value and rent.
Publications
Apostolopoulou, E., Adams, W.M., Greco, E., 2017. Biodiversity offsetting and the construction of ‘equivalent natures’: A Marxist critique. ACME (An International Journal for Critical Geographies), in press.
Apostolopoulou, E. and Adams, W.M., 2017. Cutting nature to fit: Urbanization, neoliberalism and biodiversity offsetting in England. Geoforum, doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.05.013.
Apostolopoulou, E. and Adams, W.M., 2017. Biodiversity offsetting and conservation: Reframing nature to save it. Oryx 51, 23-31.
Apostolopoulou, E. and Adams, W.M., 2017. Biodiversity offsetting and the reframing of conservation: A reply. Oryx 51, 40-42.
Apostolopoulou, E. and Adams, W.M., 2015. Neoliberal capitalism and conservation in the post-crisis era: The dialectics of "Green" and "Un-green" Grabbing in Greece and the UK. Antipode 47, 15-35.
Teaching and Supervisions
- Economic Globalization and its Crises
- Human Geography Research and Analysis Skills
- MPhil in Conservation Leadership
Other Professional Activities
- 2018-present: Co-Editor, ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies.
- 2011-present: Research Fellow in Earth System Governance Project.
- 2005-2012: Freelance journalist on environmental and political issues.