“…It has been some time since ‘natural resources' formed the subject of a report for Progress in Human Geography . Natural resource management and conservation were staple features of reviews from the establishment of this journal in the 1970s until the early 1990s (Mitchell, 1980; Munton, 1983; Owens and Owens, 1987, 1989; Simmons, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982; Wescoat, 1991, 1992, 1993). Since then research on the appraisal, appropriation, regulation and co-production of the non-human world has continued to feature within Progress but largely under the alternative flag of ‘environmental issues' (Braun, 2005, 2006, 2008; Castree, 2002, 2003, 2004; Reed and Christie, 2009) or political ecology (Neumann, 2009, 2010).…”