TY - GEN A1 - Duda, Niklas A1 - Nowak, Thorsten A1 - Hartmann, Markus A1 - Schadhauser, Michael A1 - Cassens, Björn A1 - Wägemann, Peter A1 - Nabeel, Muhammad A1 - Ripperger, Simon A1 - Herbst, Sebastian A1 - Meyer-Wegener, Klaus A1 - Mayer, Frieder A1 - Dressler, Falko A1 - Schröder-Preikschat, Wolfgang A1 - Kapitza, Rüdiger A1 - Robert, Jörg A1 - Thielecke, Jörn A1 - Weigel, Robert A1 - Kölpin, Alexander T1 - BATS: Adaptive Ultra Low Power Sensor Network for Animal Tracking T2 - Sensors Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/s18103343 SN - 1424-8220 VL - 18 IS - 10 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Lippert, Ingmar A1 - Krause, Franz A1 - Hartmann, Niklas T1 - Environmental Management as Situated Practice T2 - Geoforum N2 - We propose an analysis of environmental management (EM) as work and as practical activity. This approach enables empirical studies of the diverse ways in which professionals, scientists, NGO staffers, and activists achieve the partial manageability of specific “environments”. In this introduction, we sketch the debates in Human Geography, Management Studies, and Science and Technology Studies to which this special issue contributes. We identify the limits of understanding EM though the framework of ecological modernisation, and show how political ecology and work-place studies provide important departures towards a more critical approach. Developing these further, into a cosmopolitical direction, we propose studying EM as sets of socially and materially situated practices. This enables a shift away from established approaches which treat EM either as a toolbox whose efficiency has to be assessed, or as simply the implementation of dominant projects and the materialisation of hegemonic discourse. Such a shift renders EM as always messy practices of engagement, critique and improvisation. We conclude that studying the distributed and situated managing agencies, actors and their practices allows to imagine new forms of critical interventions. KW - Conservation KW - Political ecology KW - Post-constructivism KW - Cosmopolitics KW - Ecological modernisation KW - Workplace studies Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.09.006 SN - 0016-7185 VL - 66 SP - 107 EP - 114 ER -