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FINANCIALIZED GREEN STATE ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE URBANIZATION OF MOUNTAINS: Chongli’s Consumption‐based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Separating Sisters From Brothers: Ethnic Relations and Identity Politics in the Context of Indigenous Land Titling in Indonesia

open access: yesASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 2017
Environmental and social transformations in Jambi province, Indonesia, are inextricably interlinked. Large-scale agro-industrial development and nature conservation policies equally alienate local communities from their agricultural lands and turn land ...
Stefanie Steinebach, Yvonne Kunz
doaj   +1 more source

Annual Reports to the ESA Council ESA 110th Annual Meeting July, 2025

open access: yes
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
wiley   +1 more source

THE CHAINMAKER: How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives over Time

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Practitioners implementing urban climate initiatives are frequently faced with the intermittent nature of urban projects and the short‐termism of policy experiments. In this conjuncture, understanding how urban transformations are advanced necessitates grasping how small‐scale efforts are carried forward or sustained despite these brief time ...
HANNA HILBRANDT   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction to the Special Issue: Water Grabbing? Focus on the (Re)appropriation of Finite Water Resources

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2012
Recent large-scale land acquisitions for agricultural production (including biofuels), popularly known as 'land grabbing', have attracted headline attention.
Lyla Mehta   +2 more
doaj  

Fixing the land: The role of knowledge in building new models for rural development

open access: yesCanadian Food Studies, 2015
Over the past five years, the term “land grab” has made international headlines. First coined by activists documenting the rise in media reports about displacements caused by the sale or transfer of land, land grabbing quickly became an object of ...
Wendy Wolford
doaj   +1 more source

EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter‐measures

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is ‘epistemic extractivism’, and how does it affect researchers who are engaged in urban and housing movements? This essay first explores the contexts of both engaged research and epistemic extractivism, clarifying their meanings and implications. It also disentangles the ethical and methodological risks posed by epistemic extractivism in
Miguel A. Martínez
wiley   +1 more source

The Threat of Green Grabbing to Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in the Implementation of Law Number 32 of 2024

open access: yesJustisi
This study aims to examine the threat of green grabbing in the implementation of Law No. 32 of 2024 concerning Natural Resource and Ecosystem Management, with a focus on its impact on land tenure by indigenous peoples and environmental governance. This
Maulana Hendra Mandala   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Financial capital and land control: New rentiers on the Brazilian agricultural frontier

open access: yesRevista NERA, 2019
Although not new to capitalism, Brazil experienced a dizzying increase in the Initial Public Offering (IPO) between 2004 and 2008. In the case of agribusiness, 18 companies made IPOs in this short period. Who are these companies? What were the objectives
Rodrigo Cavalcanti Nascimento   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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