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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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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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, 2021 This chapter discusses the rise of extractivisms in the material resource economy, and as a critical discourse in both activism and academe. Drawing on fieldwork in the Brazilian Amazon, it situates the extractivist turn of the global economy within national and local contexts.
Gills Barry +2 more
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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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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 +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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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 +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 +2 more
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Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2023 A buoyant debate has grown in political ecology and agrarian studies around the concept of extractivism. It shines a light on forms of human and non-human depletion that fuel contemporary capitalism.
Muriel Côte
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Power and resistance against patriarchal extractivism in Latin America
Scienze del Territorio, 2022 The aim of the paper is to provide a theoretical insight into the feminist concept of cuerpo-territorio and the strict interrelation between the two terms – body and territory –, both object of predatory capitalist exploitation and protagonists of ...
Lorenza Perini
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