A SUPPLY CHAIN AND LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS OF THE US MILITARY’S ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT
About Us
Concrete Impacts is a UKRI-Economic Social Research Council funded collaboration between Lancaster and Durham Universities examining the socio-ecological effects of military supply chains and its wider environmental footprints.
The Concrete Impacts Team
Benjamin Neimark
Benjamin is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business Management at Queen Mary, University of London UK, and Principle Investigator of the Concrete Impacts Project. He is a human geographer and political ecologist (defined as the intersections of ecology and a broadly defined political economy) whose research focuses on politics of labour, biological conservation and resource extraction (bio-/green economy), high-value commodity chains, smallholder production, agrarian change and development. He has a geographic focus on Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. His current research focuses on the US military as a global climate actor and more broadly exposing the environmental footprints of the world’s militaries.
Active links: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/benjamin-neimark
Oliver Belcher
Oliver Belcher is an Associate Professor in International Relations & Security at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. He has written extensively on late-modern warfare, including the U.S. military as a climate actor.
Active links: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/oliver-belcher/
Kirsti Ashworth
All we need is the air that we breathe”…
Kirsti is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow whose research interests focus around the intersection of society, land and atmosphere. Based in Lancaster Environment Centre, her work is highly interdisciplinary, spanning atmospheric chemistry and dynamics, land surface process and human impacts on the Earth system. Kirsti is the current Theme Lead for Health and Wellbeing Futures within Lancaster University’s innovative Institute for Social Futures, through which she examines inequities in societal impacts and consequences of climate change and air pollution. Kirsti relishes the prospect of this, her first skirmish with the US Military, whom she believes should be held accountable for their contribution to climate change, air pollution and social injustice.
Active links: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/kirsti-ashworth
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/social-futures/
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Reuben Larbi
I am a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University working on the Concrete Impacts project. My research focus is to critically examine how human activities, particularly the extraction and use of natural resources alter socio-ecological systems and impacts local communities. I have expertise with multidisciplinary approaches that combine qualitative and quantitative research methods with spatial analysis to examine inter alia, exposure of communities to both climatic and non-climatic environmental hazards, urban sprawl, and resource use.
Active links: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/reuben-larbi
Patrick Bigger
Patrick Bigger is a Senior Policy Fellow at the Climate + Community Project and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Lancaster Environment Centre. He supports CCP's work on the Global Green New Deal and coordinates the Economy and Labor dimensions of the Red, Black, and Green New Deal. Prior to joining CCP, Patrick's research focused on the political economy of climate mitigation, adaptation, and biodiversity conservation, and the justice dimensions of environmental finance and policy in the US and abroad, as well as the geopolitical ecology of the US Military.
