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Contesting the green transition: Nickel downstreaming, structural inequality, and the paradoxes of green extractivism

Sustainable Urban Development and Environmental Impact Journal
Background: Indonesia, home to some of the world’s largest nickel reserves, has emerged as a central hub in the global electric vehicle supply chain under initiatives of nickel downstreaming. This study aims to examine how nickel industrialization intersects with social, ecological, and spatial inequalities, revealing the paradoxes of green economic ...
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Extractivism and Citizenship

, 2019
This chapter summarizes the main claims of the heterogeneous concept of extractivism,  pointing out its ambiguities and polysemic nature. Extractivism has been used to refer to different historical periods, has been assigned quite diverse scopes and used
Grigera, Juan Francisco
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The politics of place in energy transformations: Contesting green extractivism through indigenous governance in Union Hidalgo, Mexico

Dominant discourses around global energy transitions often frame them as neutral, technical responses to climate change, yet in practice, these corporate-state projects reproduce extractive and colonial logics, particularly in the Global South. Rooted in
Astrid Krisch, Aisha Valenzuela Basurto
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Resisting green extractivism: the case of lithium mining in Serbia

This thesis examines the forms of resistance which have emerged in response to planned lithium mining projects in Serbia. Lithium is a metallic element crucial for electric vehicles and other low carbon technologies, and it is widely understood as necessary for the so-called ‘green’ transition.
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Legitimising lithium mining: Global energy transition and green developmentalism in Jujuy, Argentina

European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
The global green energy transition towards a low-carbon economy via decarbonisation is in-creasing the demand for and exploitation of so-called critical resources, including lithium.
Felix Malte Dorn, Kristina Dietz
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Harnessing Africa's renewable potential with an integrated framework for energy justice and climate resilience

Discover Sustainability
Africa’s renewable energy transition presents both a vital opportunity and a complex challenge shaped by deep-rooted structural barriers and global power asymmetries.
Kudzanayi Chiteka, Christopher Enweremadu   +1 more
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Prospecting, Expanding, Restoring: Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene

This special issue on Law and Extractivism in the Anthropocene explores the extractive machinery of late liberalism through the prism of law. Our introduction outlines the stakes and complexities of theorising extractivism and situates the contributions ...
Birrell, K, Clark, M, Dehm, J
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Not in my backyard? Prospects, problems and perceptions of lithium extraction in Austria

Energy, Sustainability and Society
Background The European Green Deal has rekindled interest in the mining of critical raw materials within Europe’s borders. The Weinebene lithium deposit, near Wolfsberg (Austria), deemed uneconomic as late as the 2000s, has attracted interest from ...
Matthias Kowasch, Simon P. J. Batterbury, Christoph Baumann, Frank Melcher, Gertrude Saxinger, Emma Wilson   +5 more
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Microbiomes associated with Coffea arabica and Coffea canephora in four different floristic domains of Brazil. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2023
Veloso TGR, da Silva MCS, Moreira TR, da Luz JMR, Moreli AP, Kasuya MCM, Pereira LL.   +6 more
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Extractivism and Global Social Change

This chapter focuses on the concept of extractivism as an analytical device to understand multiple aspects of global social change. This review examines the core characteristics of extractivism as an analytical concept, its historical trajectories, and ...
Gills, Barry, Hagolani-Albov, Sophia, LaFleur, Will, Durante, Francesco, Hokkanen, Saana Maarit, Vuola, Marketta Paula Sofia, Chagnon, Christopher Wetherel, Nygren, Anja, Ollinaho, Ossi, Kangasluoma, Sohvi, Kröger, Markus   +10 more
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