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THE TRUE COST OF TECHNOLOGY: DOUBLE EXTRACTIVISM AND GREEN CRIMINOLOGY IN SERBIA [PDF]
Revija za kriminologiju i krivično pravo, 2022 The socalled green transition that relies on batterypowered technology dramatically raises demands for lithium and other minerals. The same resources are used to produce batteries for phones, computers, electric cars, and other devices with ...
Ivana Stepanović
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"Hunting Africa": how international trophy hunting may constitute neocolonial green extractivism
Journal of Political Ecology, 2023 In the post-Cold War neoliberal moment of the mid-1990s, Safari Club International's (SCI) nascent but now defunct 'African Chapter' published a Strategic Plan for Africa.
Sian Sullivan
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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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Breaking free from tunnel vision for climate change and health [PDF]
PLOS Global Public Health, 2023 Climate change is widely recognised as the greatest threat to public health this century, but ‘climate change and health’ often refers to a narrow and limited focus on emissions, and the impacts of the climate crisis, rather than a holistic assessment of
Thilagawathi Abi Deivanayagam +1 more
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Electric Vehicle Paradise? Exploring the Value Chains of Green Extractivism
Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2023 Norway has the world-class ambition to make transport more sustainable and climate friendly. Its electric vehicle (EV) rollout is celebrated by and aspirational for other countries, manifesting the imaginary of technological solutions for sustainable ...
Devyn Remme +3 more
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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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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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Journal of Political Ecology, 2023 'Environmentalists' tend to enthusiastically embrace new railway projects as desirable alternatives to more carbon-intensive aviation and road infrastructures.
Andrea Brock
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Aesthetics of green dispossession: From coal to wind extraction in La Guajira, Colombia
Journal of Political Ecology, 2023 In La Guajira, Colombia, current projections for the reconfiguration of coal mining and proposals for decarbonization through wind energy have become central to the national political debate on energy transition.
Astrid Ulloa
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Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios de Desarrollo, 2021 This article analyzes the experiences of the small Shuar community of Kenkuim (Congüime) in the Ecuadorian Amazon that since 2016 carries out gold mining through the communitarian company Exploken Minera. The case is unique in South America, not only for
Rickard Lalander +5 more
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