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Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature? [PDF]
Journal of Peasant Studies, 2012 Across the world, ‘green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. The vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called upon to justify appropriations of land for food or fuel – as where large tracts of land ...
Ian Scoones +2 more
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Green Grabbing Debate and Madagascar: Did We Learn Anything? [PDF]
International Journal of Sustainable Development, 2017 Green grabbing is a scholarly critique of conservation efforts. Scholars of green grabbing argue that many conservation strategies - such as the designation of protected areas and the creation of market-based conservation mechanisms - are designed with the intent to dispossess local peoples and capitalise natural assets.
Thorkil Casse
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LandThe article aims to analyze the contemporary forms of territorial dispossession that stem from the energy transition, especially those related to free trade corridors and green grabbing in the context of Latin America.
Lia Pinheiro Barbosa +1 more
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Green Grabbing in the Matopiba Agricultural Frontier
IDS Bulletin, 2023 This article discusses grilagem (land grabbing) in the Cerrado, particularly in Matopiba territory, which is seen as the newest and largest global agricultural frontier. It examines how the Rural Environmental Cadastre (CAR), created in 2012, has become an instrument for land and green grabbing.
Anderson Antonio Silva Anderson Antonio Silva +3 more
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Nodes of resistance to green grabbing: a political ecology [PDF]
Environment and Social Psychology, 2016 Green grabbing is the privatization or appropriation of land for purposes of advancing a “green” economy while excluding local, indigenous people from natural resources. This is a problem of global scale that has arisen mainly during a historical period when free market, neo-liberal policies have dominated the world economy. The academic li-terature on
Weeber, Stan
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Green Grabbing in Renewable Energy Policy: A Case Study of the Wae Sano Geothermal Project [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesThe phenomenon of green grabbing in renewable energy projects demonstrates the paradox between global interests in reducing emissions and local realities facing the threat of losing living space.
Sihidi Iradhad Taqwa +3 more
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“Green grabbing,” pastoralism and environmental dynamics in Northern Kenya. An assessment of conservation models and practices in Marsabit County [PDF]
Les Cahiers d’Afrique de l’Est, 2015 In Northern Kenya, the history of protected areas reflects the debates that have shaped the world of conservation and environmental concerns. For a long time colonial assumptions about pastoralist uses of natural resources have been part of environmental
Benoit Hazard, Christine Adongo
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Green grabbing-induced displacement [PDF]
, 2018 peer reviewedWhilst the study of the connections between the biophysical impacts of climate change and mobility have made substantial progress, very little attention has been given to the interactions between climate change policies, land grabs, and ...
Vigil Diaz Telenti, Sara
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Conservation as a Guise: Green Grabbing and the Acculturation Erasure in Rempang, Indonesia
Forest and SocietyThis study examines how the state enacts green grabbing through forestry legal instruments and how this process intersects with the existence and cultural acculturation of the Sungai Raya community. Previous studies on state-led green grabbing have predominantly emphasized economic, political, and ecological dimensions, often overlooking the socio ...
Umi Ma'rufah +3 more
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Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles, 2023 The creation of private protected areas (PPA) is commonly considered an instrument of neoliberal conservation, characterized by private management and commodification of nature for (eco)tourism and other market-based instruments (MBIs). PPAs are accused
Nora Müller +2 more
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