Rebecca Leigh Rutt

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I'm an 'undisciplined' political ecologist with research experience in multiple sites, from the urban sustainability agendas of Copenhagen, Denmark to the European Union policy realm and practices aimed at preventing trade of illegal forest products, to struggles over control of community forests in Nepal. Most recently, I am working at the nexus of industrial animal production and the rise of infectious disease - the so-called 'pandemic era'- through a 4-yr interdisciplinary research project PANDEMEAT (Pandemic Entanglements: The Political Ecology of Industrial Meat Production in the ‘Pandemic Era’) with partners from the University of Oslo. I'm inspired by research and education in relation to social, environmental, and ecological justice and feminist political ecology, and by the pluriversal degrowth global movement.  

I am a Course Responsible for Motivation and Pro-Environmental Behaviour: Managing Change (MSc), Gender, Environment, and Sustainable Development (MSc), Natur og Landskabspolitik (Nature and Landscape Policy and Politics; BA) and I co-teach Environmental Justice (MSc). I recently organized the PhD courses Degrowth: Foundations in Theory and Degrowth Praxis. I frequently guest lecture on topics such as rethinking and rebuilding the economy (as a 'care-full' economy), food justice, participation and inclusion in theory and practice, and am moving into debates on masculinities, care, and commoning.

Selected publications

Cultivating urban conviviality: urban farming in the shadows of Copenhagen's neoliberalism. / Rutt RL. In: Journal of Political Ecology 27(1), 2020, p. 612-634

Whose Park? The forty-year fight for Folkets Park under Copenhagen’s evolving urban managerialism. / Rutt, RL; Loveless, S. In: People, Place and Policy, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2018, p. 99-117.

FLEGT : another "forestry fad"? / Rutt, RL; Myers, R; Ramcilovic-Suominen, S; McDermott, C. Environmental Science & Policy, Vol. 89, 2018, p. 266-272.

Quests for justice and mechanisms of suppression in Flint, Michigan. / Rutt, RL; Bluwstein, J. In: Environmental Justice, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2017, p. 27-35.

Green justice in the city : a new agenda for urban green space research in Europe. / Rutt, RL; Gulsrud, N. In: Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Vol. 19, 2016, p. 123-127.

Recent contributions to public debate

Vi må gøre op med vækstmanien / Lund, Jens Friis, Røpke, I., Gaarsmand Jacobsen, S., Buch-Hansen, H. & Rutt, Rebecca Leigh, 6 Jun 2020, In: Dagbladet Politiken. p.5 

Collaborative Feminist Degrowth: Pandemic as an Opening for a Care-Full Radical Transformation / Feminist and Degrowth Alliance (FaDa), 20 Apr 2020, Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie.