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Author Dietz, Kristina, 1972-

Title The Political Ecology of Agrofuels
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (279 pages)
Series Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods
Routledge ISS studies in rural livelihoods.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgments; 1 An introduction to the political ecology of agrofuels; 2 The political ecology of agrofuels: conceptual remarks; 3 Territory, scale and networks: the spatial dynamics of agrofuels; 4 The gendered political ecology of agrofuels expansion; 5 Bridging the gap with agrofuels: energy hunger, energy scarcity and climate change in the European Union; 6 Agrofuels in the food regime; 7 Agrofuels and land rights in Africa; 8 The discursive and material flexibility of Jatropha curcas
9 Social-environmental conflicts and agrofuel crops: the case of oil palm expansion in Colombia; 10 Green grabbing -- the case of palm oil expansion in so-called degraded areas in the eastern Brazilian Amazon; 11 Transnational space and workers' struggles: reshaping the palm oil industry in Malaysia; 12 Agrofuel networks: a case study of the regional agrodiesel network in Chhattisgarh (India); 13 US agrofuels in times of crisis: food, fuel, finance; 14 Immunization by neoliberalization: the strange non-death of the win-win narrative in European agrofuel policy; Index
Summary This book explores the political ecology of agrofuels as an encompassing socio-spatial transformation process consisting of a series of changing contexts, political reconfigurations, and the restructuring of social and labour relations. It includes conceptual chapters as well as case studies from different world regions (North America, Europe, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia) and levels (local, national, transnational). The Political Ecology of Agrofuels advances a conceptualisation of agrofuels that helps to fill existing research gaps
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Subject Biomass energy -- Political aspects
Political ecology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Political ecology
Form Electronic book
Author Engels, Bettina, 1978-
Pye, Oliver, 1968-
Brunnengräber, Achim, 1963-
ISBN 9781317747444
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