Dr. Emily Benton Hite (@EBHite22)

24 Mar 2025

Our entire collection is now FREE ACCESS! @ClimDevJournal @HaverkampJamie @charujoshijp Learn about the #power and #justice concerns at the @UNFCCC #COP meetings and global climate governance. tandfonline.com/journals/tcl…

Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC process: Assessing local-global scales of (in)justice...

Explore the article collection: Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC process: Assessing local-global scales of (in)justice within global climate governance arenas. Published in Climate and...

13 Jan 2025

We would like to announce that a long-awaited special issue is now available in Climate and Development. The entire special issue will be free access for a year (forthcoming). Please access through your institutions for now. @ClimDevJournal @HaverkampJamie @charujoshijp

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Save The World's Rivers!

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Jun 15

More coming on this issue, but evidence is accumulating that in dry climates, dams increase dryness. "Direct pressures such as pumping water for farms, clearing land, and damming rivers primarily intensified dry conditions rather than wet ones." nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Regionally divergent drivers behind transgressions of the freshwater change planetary boundary

Nature Communications - The study shows how human pressures are increasingly pushing freshwater systems beyond the planetary boundary for freshwater change. Climate change is the dominant global...

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Dr. Emily Benton Hite retweeted

Mar 18

"Summertime methane and carbon dioxide emission rates and associated variables from a national-scale survey of 146 reservoirs in the United States" Excellent EPA study results finally released. Reservoirs have a serious methane problem. aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley…

Save The World's Rivers!

Dr. Emily Benton Hite retweeted

Mar 18

“A rational actor is interested in maximizing profit. He looks at a restricted supply of transferable water rights in a state stricken by drought, and goes, ‘Shit, that’s the biggest no-brainer investment in the history of Earth! Of course, I’m going to try to corner the market with my buddies." newrepublic.com/article/2072…

The American West Is Drying Up. Can the Market Help?

As hedge funds buy up land to obtain water rights, a libertarian state representative from Arizona has proposed a seemingly radical solution to the water crisis. Is he right?

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Sarah Posner @PosnerPosner6

24 Jul 2025

Great work with amazing collaborators @CUanthropology @cugeography @SaintLouisU

24 Jul 2025

Excited to see our article out in Political Geography updating the seminal works of Watts and Peluso in the era of the #capitalocene doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.202…

Dr. Emily Benton Hite

25 Jul 2025

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lRac…. Open access

Dr. Emily Benton Hite

13 Jan 2025

Nazareth, A., Kim, D., & Shawoo, Z. (2024). External power dynamics and international climate governance in a crises-constrained world. Climate and Development, 16(10), 881–891. doi.org/10.1080/17565529.202…

External power dynamics and international climate governance in a crises-constrained world

This paper explores equity in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations during a time of multiple overlapping global crises. Drawing on a combination of semi-s...

Dr. Emily Benton Hite

13 Jan 2025

Ortiz, M., Mankhwazi, C., & Shafi, N. (2024). ‘Who is going to talk about my grandad? Who is going to talk about me?’: Spatial politics in the advocacy of youth from the MENA region at COP 27. Climate and Development, 16(10), 930–939. doi.org/10.1080/17565529.202…

‘Who is going to talk about my grandad? Who is going to talk about me?’: Spatial politics in the...

In this article, we focus on the advocacy of youth from the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region in the U.N. COP process through interviews (n = 12) with youth from the MENA region who particip...

Dr. Emily Benton Hite

13 Jan 2025

Yeh, E. T., & Loizeaux, E. R. (2024). China at COP27: CBDR, national sovereignty, and climate justice. Climate and Development, 16(10), 907–917. doi.org/10.1080/17565529.202…

China at COP27: CBDR, national sovereignty, and climate justice

Based on event ethnography conducted at the UNFCCC COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, this article examines the contradictory ways in which China, as a key actor in global climate negotiations, has s...

Dr. Emily Benton Hite

13 Jan 2025

Graddy-Lovelace, G., Brock, S., & Jain, B. (2024). Agrarianizing climate accords & discord: food, agriculture & agrarian movements at UNFCCC Conference of the Parties. Climate and Development, 16(10), 892–906. doi.org/10.1080/17565529.202…

Agrarianizing climate accords & discord: food, agriculture & agrarian movements at UNFCCC Confere...

How do agrarian justice movements factor into the UNFCCC annual global climate Conference of the Parties (COP)? How have they appeared and erupted, been excluded, appropriated, and barely allowed –...

Dr. Emily Benton Hite

13 Jan 2025

Klöck, C., Castro, P., Chin-Yee, S., B. Gurresø, C., Desmasures, C., Bouly, E., … de Pryck, K. (2024). Beyond AOSIS: small island states’ presence and participation at COP27. Climate and Development, 1–12. doi.org/10.1080/17565529.202…

Beyond AOSIS: small island states’ presence and participation at COP27

Small islands are at the frontline of climate change – and of climate negotiations. Yet while the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) has allowed small islands to collectively become a key play...

Dr. Emily Benton Hite

13 Jan 2025

Fine, J. C., Gray, S., Grosse, C., & Mark, B. (2023). A song in a cold place: the role of emotions in motivating youth activism and advancing justice at the COP. Climate and Development, 16(10), 849–860. doi.org/10.1080/17565529.202…

A song in a cold place: the role of emotions in motivating youth activism and advancing justice at...

The emotions of youth climate justice activists are often demeaned or misrepresented both by popular media and by COP organisers. The COP itself, as a cold, bureaucratic, and repressive space that ...

Dr. Emily Benton Hite

13 Jan 2025

Falzon, D. (2024). How to track progress on the Global Goal on Adaptation?: a stocktaking of Parties’ positions on measurement one year into the GlaSS work programme. Climate and Development, 16(10), 871–880. doi.org/10.1080/17565529.202…

How to track progress on the Global Goal on Adaptation?: a stocktaking of Parties’ positions on...

In 2021, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change initiated a two-year work programme that, in part, would work to determine how to assess progress in achieving the Global Goal on ...

Dr. Emily Benton Hite

13 Jan 2025

Burchert, L. (2024). Concealing, naming, or tackling inequalities? Art, culture and (In)justice at COP27. Climate and Development, 1–15. doi.org/10.1080/17565529.202…

Concealing, naming, or tackling inequalities? Art, culture and (In)justice at COP27

Although art and cultural events have been part of the COPs from the very beginning they remain largely absent in the literature. Conversely, the symbolic, dramaturgical, performative, and narrativ...

Dr. Emily Benton Hite

13 Jan 2025

Dean, J. W., & Kame Parks, J. R. (2024). The framing of Indigenous and local ecological knowledge amidst climate change education in the COP27 cyberspace. Climate and Development, 16(10), 918–929. doi.org/10.1080/17565529.202…

The framing of Indigenous and local ecological knowledge amidst climate change education in the...

We explore representations of Indigenous and local ecological knowledge (IEK/LEK) within the cyberspace of COP27 through a digital ethnography of the UNESCO-UNFCCC Webinar Series organized to suppl...

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13 Jan 2025

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Hite, E., Haverkamp, J., & Joshi, C. (2024). Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC Process: power and (in)justice in global climate governance arenas. Climate and Development, 1–7. doi.org/10.1080/17565529.202…

Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC Process: power and (in)justice in global climate...

Published in Climate and Development (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Save The World's Rivers!

Dr. Emily Benton Hite retweeted

18 Oct 2024

Federal judge finds Gross Reservoir dam expansion to be in violation of environmental law WATCH: cbsnews.com/colorado/video/f…

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