Noel Castree
Noel Castree (born 2 April 1968) is a British geographer who studies how capitalism and the environment influence each other. He works at the University of Manchester and has taught at Liverpool, Wollongong, and the University of Technology Sydney. He earned a BA in Geography from Oxford (1989) and an MA and PhD from the University of British Columbia (1992, 1999).
His research uses Marxist ideas to understand environmental change, regulation, and the idea of nature as a commodity. He helped develop the concept of "social nature," which connects social and material aspects of the biophysical world, and he explains the neoliberalisation of nature in carbon-heavy capitalism. His more recent work asks who gets to speak for the Earth in a global environmental crisis, including in his book What Future For the Earth? (2026).
Castree has been editor-in-chief of Progress in Human Geography and has served as a managing editor for Antipode and Progress in Human Geography. He founded Environment & Planning F: Philosophy, Theory, Models and Practice (Sage, 2021). His awards include the Governor General’s Gold Medal at UBC, the Gill Memorial Award from the Royal Geographical Society, fellowship of the British Academy of Social Science (2012), a Taylor & Francis lifetime achievement award (2019), and the RGS Murchison Award (2023).
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