Vegetal Infrastructure
Planting trees has become a global obsession. Forest restoration and afforestation have been rebranded as 'nature-based solutions' to climate change. Nations, corporations and non-profits together aim to plant trillions of trees, roughly equivalent to a new Amazon. This article considers t...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2026 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dnet:uabarcelona_::4814ff78de358ad1f6aa4a1f9a702927 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/327886 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1111/geoj.70080 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Adaptation Afforestation Climate change Nature-based solution Restoration Tree planting |
| Sumario: | Planting trees has become a global obsession. Forest restoration and afforestation have been rebranded as 'nature-based solutions' to climate change. Nations, corporations and non-profits together aim to plant trillions of trees, roughly equivalent to a new Amazon. This article considers the local implications of this terrestrial transformation. It reports on empirical findings from Rwanda, where over fifty million trees-mostly eucalyptus species-have been planted during the past fifteen years. Based on fieldwork with four rural communities, I demonstrate how the material properties of eucalyptus intersect with state and market rationales to make tree planting profitable, scalable and legible. Building from geographic thinking on infrastructure and human-plant relations, I develop the concept of vegetal infrastructure to analyse how trees are enrolled in political projects, producing durable inequalities that become a palpable fixture on the landscape. The article emphasises the urgent need to diversify global reforestation mandates and offers vegetal infrastructure as a lens to assess their local implications. |
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