Robert Fletcher

Robert Fletcher is Professor of Political Ecology in the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

ABOUT Robert Fletcher

Robert Fletcher is Professor of Political Ecology in the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. As an environmental anthropologist, Fletcher uses a political ecology approach to explore how culturally-specific understandings of human-nonhuman relations and political economic structures intersect to inform patterns of natural resource use and conflict.

He is the author of several books, including Failing Forward: The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Conservation (U of California, 2023), Romancing the Wild: Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism (Duke University, 2014), and (co-authored) The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature beyond the Anthropocene (Verso, 2020).

In the ACB Futures project, he is involved in the Kenya case study.

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