Leigh Johnson

Exit climate, stage right? Performance, practice, and methods for what becomes of climate finance

Leigh Johnson

The post-2025 conjuncture poses numerous challenges for understanding the dynamic “positions” of climate finance that Bryant and Webber identify. I focus on the difficulty of distinguishing between financial institutions’ public performances and actual practices, particularly as anti-ESG political pressures incentivize strategic distance …

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Dis/incremental Dwelling and the Right to the Beach in Jamestown, Accra, Ghana

Bianca Malkoc, Leigh Johnson

Abstract In mid‐2020, the municipal authority of Accra, Ghana levelled the dwellings of approximately 450 residents remaining in an informal beach settlement in Jamestown, long the centre of an artisanal fishing economy. The destruction marked the culmination of at least four demolition …

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A data compilation of antibiotic treatments in Canadian finfish aquaculture from 2016 to 2021 and the cumulative usage of antibiotics and antiparasitic drugs at marine sites

L. Jonah, Dounia Hamoutene, Melanie V. Kingsbury, Leigh Johnson et autres

Antibiotics can be introduced from aquaculture facilities into marine sediments, where they may affect benthic communities and generate antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Antibiotics can be used in tandem with antiparasitics, and the effects of their combined usage could affect AMR patterns and transmit …

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Health equity engineering: Optimizing hope for a new generation of healthcare

Felicity Enders, Elizabeth H. Golembiewski, Joyce E. Balls‐Berry, Tayla R. Brooks et autres

Medical researchers are increasingly prioritizing the inclusion of underserved communities in clinical studies. However, mere inclusion is not enough. People from underserved communities frequently experience chronic stress that may lead to accelerated biological aging and early morbidity and mortality. It is our …

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Intervention: The invisible labor of climate change adaptation

Leigh Johnson, Michael Mikulewicz, Patrick Bigger, Ritodhi Chakraborty et autres

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Uncertainty in the drylands: Rethinking in/formal insurance from pastoral East Africa

Leigh Johnson, Tahira Shariff Mohamed, Ian Scoones, Masresha Taye

Amidst climatic and economic volatility, agricultural development and climate adaptation policies have increasingly turned to weather microinsurance to manage uncertainties, particularly in dryland pastoral and agricultural settings. While the political embrace of insurance has been cause for concern amongst those who fear …

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Intervention: The Invisible Labor of Climate Change Adaptation

Leigh Johnson, Michael Mikulewicz, Patrick Bigger, Ritodhi Chakraborty et autres

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Multilevel Influences on Providers' Delivery of Contraceptive Services: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis

Abbey K. Mann, Amal J. Khoury, Paezha McCartt, M.G.H. Smith et autres

Introduction: Access to a full range of contraceptive services is essential for quality health care. Contraceptive provision practices of primary care providers play an important role in patients' decision-making about their reproductive health care. Understanding the multilevel factors influencing contraceptive care delivery …

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Rents, Experiments, and the Perpetual Presence of Concessionary Weather Insurance

Leigh Johnson

Geographers have interpreted the rise of weather insurance for small agricultural producers as emblematic of financialization’s inexorable march to capitalize the countryside. Yet this market has proved far less successful than advocates hoped or critics feared. Rather than a speculative tool for …

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Paying ex gratia: Parametric insurance after calculative devices fail

Leigh Johnson

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Rescaling index insurance for climate and development in Africa

Leigh Johnson

This paper chronicles 15 years of experimentation with index insurance as a technology of weather risk governance, particularly as applied to vulnerable agricultural populations in sub-Saharan Africa. Index insurance – in which payouts are determined by environmental variables rather than direct loss …

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Towards a climate-positive Tasmania: A discussion paper

R Eccleston, S Hyslop, Leigh Johnson, Brian B. Parr et autres