Maron E. Greenleaf

|Assistant Professor
Academic Appointments
  • Assistant Professor

  • Affiliate of Ecology, Evolution, Environment & Society (EEES) PhD Program

My published work has centered on green capitalism, carbon credits, deforestation, tree planting, postindustrial restoration, and energy transitions in Brazil, the US, and the UK. This work includes my first book—Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon—and collaborative work on energy justice in the United States and South America. My current research centers on tree planting and environmental restoration in postindustrial England.

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Contact

Silsby, Room 403
HB 6047

Education

  • B.A. Yale University
  • J.D. NYU School of Law
  • Ph. D. Stanford University

Selected Publications

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Works In Progress

Greenleaf, Maron. 2024. "'Growing a Better Future': Tree Planting, Temporality, and Environmental Restoration." Environment and Society.

Selected other writing

Greenleaf, Maron. 2019. "California Polluters May Soon Be Able to Buy Carbon ‘Offsets’ from the Amazon—is that Ethical?” The Conversation, September 26, 2019. 

Greenleaf, Maron and Amelia Moore. 2016. "2015 Rappaport Student Prize Winner Maron Greenleaf Interviewed by Amelia Moore.” Anthropology News.