Appropriation of Ecological Space - Agrofuels, Unequal Exchange and Environmental Load Displacements

Informationen zum Autor Kenneth Hermele is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Universities of Lund and Gothenburg, Sweden. He received his PhD in Human Ecology from the University of Lund. Zusammenfassung This study deals with land-based resources and the role they play in the global socio-ecological metabolic regime, both now and in the future. In particular, the controversial use of agrofuels as a solution to coming scarcity is subjected to close scrutiny. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Importance of Land 2. Land Use Scenarios for Agrofuels and Nine Billion People 3. Regulating Land Use for Agrofuels: The Case of Brazil 4. Framing Unequal Exchange 5. Weak and Strong Measures of the Nature – Economy Interface 6. Measures and Interpretations of Ecologically Unequal Exchange 7. Obvious and Obscure Displacements 8. The Argument Revisited: The Return to the Land References

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• Authors: Kenneth Hermele, Kenneth (Lund University Hermele, Hermele Kenneth
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.06.2016
• EAN: 9781138686441
• ISBN: 978-1-138-68644-1
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Green Business, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, Economic history, Environmental Economics, environmental science, engineering & technology, Development Studies, Environmental science, engineering and technology