Subject groups/Research projects
Departments and Institutes
Research Interests
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.
Key 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.