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Block extractivism

Scienze del Territorio, 2022
This paper focuses on territorial recomposition in Canadian rural areas generated by the evolution of power balances among local actors, civil society and public authorities, and exogenous powers. In a postcolonial context, the economic development model
Lucas Durand
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Resource extractivism, health and climate change in small islands [PDF]

International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 2018
Purpose – The extraction of natural resources has long been part of economic development in small islands. The damage to environment and health is extensive, even rendering once productive islands virtually uninhabitable.
Hilary Bambrick
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"Blood on the floor": The nickel commodity frontier and inter-capitalist competition under green extractivism

Journal of Political Ecology, 2023
Major companies in the mining industry are strategizing to benefit from the expected rise in demand for energy "transition minerals" that underpin current technologies of decarbonization (such as batteries and wind turbines).
Andy Whitmore, Mads Barbesgaard
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The Structures of Conquest: Debating Extractivism(s), Infrastructures and Environmental Justice for Advancing Post-Development Pathways

Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2023
The green economy and ‘green growth’ are not solutions to ecological and climate catastrophe. The dominate trajectory of techno-industrial development has to be reconsidered and placed within ecological limits.
Alexander Dunlap
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How jaguars are actually stolen: Big cat conservation and the green extractivism nexus in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

Journal of Political Ecology, 2023
This article explores the seemingly unlikely intersection of jaguar conservation and green extractivism in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. The 'green' or environmental aspect of jaguar conservation, we argue, is largely manufactured, employing the ...
Alejandro Ruelas Espinosa, Alexander Dunlap   +1 more
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Resistance in retrospect: The multi-temporality of extractivism in the Amazon

Íconos, 2021
Amazonian communities take various political positions in relation to extractivism. These positions are influenced by previous histories of encounter and conflict with the state, extractive companies, and mestizo society. However, much of the research on
Angus Lyall
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‘We are nature defending itself’—The Forest of Dannenrod Occupation as an Example of Contested Extractivism in the Global North

Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2023
Extractive activity is not limited to mining; it also occurs in the other forms of large-scale landscape destruction, including the deforestation involved in extensive infrastructure projects.
Dorothea Hamilton, Sina Trölenberg
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The Politics of Disaster Risk Governance and Neo-Extractivism in Latin America

Politics and Governance, 2020
Latin America is one of the regions facing many disasters with some of the worse impacts. The current governance model has not proven successful in disaster risk reduction.
Andrés Pereira Covarrubias, Emmanuel Raju   +1 more
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Neo-Extractivism in Latin America – one side of a new phase of global capitalist dynamics

Ciencia Política, 2016
The aim of this text is to make sense of the emerging political-institutional, territorial, and socio-ecological dynamics and contradictions of neo-extractivism in Latin America in the context of global capitalist development.
Ulrich Brand, Kristina Dietz, Miriam Lang   +2 more
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Spaces of Extraction in Europe: The Corporate–State–Mining Complex and Resistance in Greece and Romania

Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2023
Despite the widespread attention paid to the spatial expansion of extractive frontiers around the globe, the multiple ways in which states and extractive transnational corporations interfere with and exercise authority over local populations in spaces of
Konstantinos ‘Kostas’ Petrakos
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