Bioeconomy and global inequalities : socio-ecological perspectives on biomass sourcing and production /

This open access book explores bioeconomy and bioenergy policies across South America, Asia and Europe. It discusses how a transition away from a fossil and towards a bio-based economic order alters, reinforces and challenges socio-ecological inequalities. A series of conceptual discussions and case...

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Other Authors: Backhouse, Maria (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction. Contextualising the Bioeconomy in an Unequal World: Biomass Sourcing and Global Socio-ecological Inequalities; Maria Backhouse, Rosa Lehmann, Kristina Lorenzen, Janina Puder, Fabricio Rodríguez, Anne Tittor
  • Part 1 Rethinking the Bioeconomy, Energy, and Value Production
  • 2. Global Inequalities and Extractive Knowledge Production in the Bioeconomy; Maria Backhouse
  • 3. Neoliberal Bioeconomies? Co-constructing Markets and Natures; Kean Birch
  • 4. Tools of Extraction or Means of Speculation? Making Sense of Patents in the Bioeconomy; Veit Braun
  • 5. Bioenergy, Thermodynamics and Inequalities; Larry Lohmann
  • Part 2 Bioeconomy Policies and Agendas in Different Countries
  • 6. Knowledge, Research, and Germany's Bioeconomy: Inclusion and Exclusion in Bioenergy Funding Policies; Rosa Lehmann
  • 7. A Player Bigger than its Size. Finnish Bioeconomy and Forest Policy in the Era of Global Climate Politics; Tero Toivanen
  • 8. Sugar-Cane Bioelectricity in Brazil: Reinforcing the Meta-Discourses of Bioeconomy and Energy Transition; Selena Herrera, John Wilkinson
  • Part 3 Reconfigurations and Continuities of Social-ecological Inequalities in Rural Areas
  • 9. Buruh Siluman: The Making and Maintaining of Cheap and Disciplined Labour on Oil Palm Plantations in Indonesia; Hariati Sinaga
  • 10. Superexploitation in Bio-based Industries. The Case of Oil Palm and Labour Migration in Malaysia; Janina Puder
  • 11. Sugarcane Industry Expansion and Changing Rural Labour Regimes in Mato Grosso do Sul (2000-2016); Kristina Lorenzen
  • 12. Territorial Changes around Biodiesel. A Case Study of North-western Argentina
  • Virginia Toledo López
  • Part 4 The Extractive Side of the Global Biomass Sourcing
  • 13. Contested Resources and South-South Inequalities. What Sino-Brazilian Trade Means for the ow-Carbon Bioeconomy; Fabricio Rodríguez
  • 14. Sustaining the European Bioeconomy. The Material Base and Extractive Relations of a Bio-based EU-Economy; Malte Lühmann
  • 15. Towards an Extractivist Bioeconomy? The Risk of Deepening Agrarian Extractivism when Promoting Bioeconomy in Argentina; Anne Tittor.