Maron E. Greenleaf
Assistant Professor
Affiliate of Ecology, Evolution, Environment & Society (EEES) PhD Program
My published work has centered on green capitalism, carbon credits, deforestation, tree planting, postindustrial restoration, and energy transitions in Brazil, the US, and the UK. This work includes my first book—Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon—and collaborative work on energy justice in the United States and South America. My current research centers on tree planting and environmental restoration in postindustrial England.
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Department(s)
Anthropology
Education
- B.A. Yale University
- J.D. NYU School of Law
- Ph. D. Stanford University
Selected Publications
Greenleaf, Maron. 2024. Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon. Duke University Press.
Greenleaf, Maron. 2021. "Beneficiaries of Forest Carbon: Precarious Inclusion in the Brazilian Amazon." American Anthropologist.
Mendoza, Marcos, Maron Greenleaf, and Eric Thomas. 2021 "Green Distributive Politics: Legitimizing Green Capitalism and Environmental Protection in Latin America." Geoforum.
Greenleaf, Maron. 2020. "Rubber and Carbon: Opportunity Costs, Incentives and Ecosystem Services in Acre, Brazil." Development and Change.
Works In Progress
Greenleaf, Maron. 2024. "'Growing a Better Future': Tree Planting, Temporality, and Environmental Restoration." Environment and Society.
Selected other writing
Greenleaf, Maron. 2019. "California Polluters May Soon Be Able to Buy Carbon ‘Offsets’ from the Amazon—is that Ethical?” The Conversation, September 26, 2019.
Greenleaf, Maron and Amelia Moore. 2016. "2015 Rappaport Student Prize Winner Maron Greenleaf Interviewed by Amelia Moore.” Anthropology News.