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New ‘renewable’ frontiers: contested palm oil plantations and wind energy projects in Brazil and Mexico
This paper argues that new land conflict frontiers are emerging in the context of renewable energy production. The novel aspect of these frontiers is a ‘green’ framing of the use of land considered ‘degraded’, expressing it as a climate protection strategy, and consequently causing similar dynamics of conflict in different regions. With reference to political ecology debates on the notion of frontiers, we analyze the social conflicts over palm oil production for biodiesel and wind energy development in Brazil and Mexico, respectively. We show that green narratives, understood as forms of knowledge production concerning the protection of the climate and sustainable development, not only represent legitimization strategies for new land grabs, but also come with their own dynamics of social conflict and their own constellations of actors.
New ‘renewable’ frontiers: contested palm oil plantations and wind energy projects in Brazil and Mexico
This paper argues that new land conflict frontiers are emerging in the context of renewable energy production. The novel aspect of these frontiers is a ‘green’ framing of the use of land considered ‘degraded’, expressing it as a climate protection strategy, and consequently causing similar dynamics of conflict in different regions. With reference to political ecology debates on the notion of frontiers, we analyze the social conflicts over palm oil production for biodiesel and wind energy development in Brazil and Mexico, respectively. We show that green narratives, understood as forms of knowledge production concerning the protection of the climate and sustainable development, not only represent legitimization strategies for new land grabs, but also come with their own dynamics of social conflict and their own constellations of actors.
New ‘renewable’ frontiers: contested palm oil plantations and wind energy projects in Brazil and Mexico
Backhouse, Maria (Autor:in) / Lehmann, Rosa (Autor:in)
Journal of Land Use Science ; 15 ; 373-388
03.05.2020
16 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Unbekannt
Wind energy , palm oil , frontier , land control , Mexico , Brazil
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