By Frank Veraart, Jan-Pieter Smits and Erik van der Vleuten. This article presents a mixed-methods framework for researching how sustainability gains and costs developed in, and became distributed between, distant regions connected by transcontinental resource infrastructure. We apply this framework to the oil-connected Niger and Rhine deltas from the 1950s to 2015. To study the…

By Frank Veraart, Anna Åberg and Hanna Vikström. Extractive resources are unevenly distributed geographically and our dependence on such resources is growing, which has led to ever increasing flows of resources across the world. This situation has caused concern for numerous actors. However, such worries are not new. Todays’ feel of a deeply interconnected, rapidly…

By Frank Veraart. This article argues that histories of global north and south are interconnected and inseparable parts of the same processes that shaped different environments. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, systematic science-based commodification attributed economic and use values to natural resources. This changed western perceptions of natural environments. The commodification of plant and…

by Klara Strecker and Frank Veraart. This article presents a transnational history of entangled rose trade. Building on notions of sustainability telecoupling, and transnational history literature, it investigates the historical (dis)entanglement process between Kenya and the Netherlands. It aims to go beyond the common supply side focus to tell a story of transnational entanglement that…