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

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Imprint:Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
©2021
Description:1 online resource : color illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13397606
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Other authors / contributors:Backhouse, Maria, editor.
ISBN:9783030689445
3030689441
3030689468
9783030689469
3030689433
9783030689438
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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 studies with a multidisciplinary background in the social sciences illuminate how the deployment of biomass sources from the agricultural and forestry sectors affect societal changes concerning knowledge production, land and labour relations, political participation and international trade. How can a global perspective on socio-ecological inequalities contribute to a critical understanding of bioeconomy? Who participates in the negotiation of specific bioeconomy policies and who does not? To what extent does the bioeconomy affect existing socio-ecological inequalities in rural areas? What are the implications of the bioeconomy for existing relations of extraction and inequalities across regions? The volume is an invitation to reflect upon these questions and more, at a time when the need for an ecological and socially just transition away from a carbon intensive economy is becoming increasingly pressing.
Other form:Print version: Bioeconomy and global inequalities. Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021] 3030689468 9783030689469
Print version: Bioeconomy and global inequalities. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 9783030689438
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-030-68944-5