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Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities : Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Backhouse, Maria.
Other Authors: Lehmann, Rosa., Lorenzen, Kristina., Lühmann, Malte., Puder, Janina., Rodríguez, Fabricio., Tittor, Anne.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • Part I Introduction
  • 1 Contextualizing the Bioeconomy in an Unequal World: Biomass Sourcing and Global Socio-Ecological Inequalities
  • 1.1 Rethinking the Bioeconomy, Energy, and Value Production
  • 1.2 Bioeconomy Policies and Agendas in Different Countries
  • 1.3 Reconfigurations and Continuities of Socio-Ecological Inequalities in Rural Areas
  • 1.4 The Extractive Side of Global Biomass Sourcing
  • 1.5 Outlook
  • References
  • Part II Rethinking the Bioeconomy, Energy, and Value Production
  • 2 Global Inequalities and Extractive Knowledge Production in the Bioeconomy
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Bioeconomy and the Critique of This New Form of Ecological Modernisation
  • 2.3 Critical Perspectives on Unequal Global Knowledge Production
  • 2.4 The Continued Global Division of Labour in Knowledge Production
  • 2.5 Extractive Knowledge Production in Brazil
  • 2.6 Conclusion
  • References
  • 3 Neoliberal Bioeconomies? Co-constructing Markets and Natures
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Neoliberalism
  • 3.2.1 What Is Neoliberalism?
  • 3.2.2 Neoliberalizing Nature
  • 3.3 Neoliberal Bioeconomy? Co-constructing Markets and Natures
  • 3.3.1 Market Development Policies for the Bioeconomy
  • 3.3.2 Co-construction of Markets and Natures in the Bioeconomy
  • 3.4 Conclusion
  • References
  • 4 Tools of Extraction or Means of Speculation? Making Sense of Patents in the Bioeconomy
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 From Biotech to Native Traits
  • 4.3 Patenting Native Traits: Shifts in the Legal Landscape in Europe
  • 4.4 Tools of Extraction?
  • 4.5 Using by not Using: Traditional Breeders and Native Trait Patents
  • 4.6 Speculation, Not Innovation? Patents as Credit and Capital
  • 4.7 Conclusion: Patents in the Bioeconomy
  • References
  • 5 Bioenergy, Thermodynamics and Inequalities.
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Thermodynamic Energy as Politics
  • 5.3 Bioenergy as Thermodynamic Energy: Deepening the Contradictions
  • References
  • Part III Bioeconomy Policies and Agendas in Different Countries
  • 6 Knowledge, Research, and Germany's Bioeconomy: Inclusion and Exclusion in Bioenergy Funding Policies
  • 6.1 Introduction: Bioenergy's Uncertain Prospects
  • 6.2 Approaching Bioenergy: Epistemics and Justice
  • 6.3 Bioenergy in the Transitioning Landscape of the German Bioeconomy: Empirical Insights
  • 6.3.1 The Socio-Energy Nexus in Germany's Transition Towards Renewable Energies
  • 6.3.2 Bioenergy Epistemics: Funding of Knowledge Production and Narratives
  • 6.3.3 Bioenergy Justice: R&amp
  • I Innovations and Societal Participation
  • 6.4 Conclusion
  • References
  • 7 A Player Bigger Than Its Size: Finnish Bioeconomy and Forest Policy in the Era of Global Climate Politics
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Finnish Bioeconomy as a Forest Policy Regime
  • 7.3 A Twofold Threat to the Regime: Carbon Sinks and EU Regulation
  • 7.4 The Regime Under Shock
  • 7.5 The Battle in the EU
  • 7.6 Stabilising the Regime
  • 7.7 Conclusion
  • References
  • 8 Sugar-Cane Bioelectricity in Brazil: Reinforcing the Meta-Discourses of Bioeconomy and Energy Transition
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 The Analytical Framework
  • 8.3 The Landscape: The Meta-Discourses of Bioeconomy and Energy Transition
  • 8.4 An Emerging Renewable Electricity Regime
  • 8.5 Is There a Niche for Sugar-Cane Bioelectricity?
  • 8.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Part IV 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
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 Moving Beyond Working Conditions: Theoretical Remarks.
  • 9.3 Women "Coolies", Nyai, and the (Re-)Production of a Plantation Labour Subject
  • 9.4 Working Conditions of Female Labour on Oil Palm Plantations in Riau
  • 9.5 Cheap and Disciplined Labour as a Key Feature of Labour Relations on Oil Palm Plantations
  • References
  • 10 Superexploitation in Bio-based Industries: The Case of Oil Palm and Labour Migration in Malaysia
  • 10.1 Introduction: Bioeconomy as Green Capitalism
  • 10.2 Analysing Social Inequalities as Class Relations
  • 10.3 Migratory Work in Malaysia: The State's Labour Migration Regime
  • 10.4 Working Conditions of Migrant Plantation and Mill Workers
  • 10.4.1 Un(der)Paid, Underemployed and Undocumented
  • 10.4.2 Struggling to Reproduce Livelihoods
  • 10.4.3 Barriers to Workers' Struggle
  • 10.5 Conclusion: Bioeconomy as a Continuation of Superexploitation?
  • References
  • 11 Sugarcane Industry Expansion and Changing Rural Labour Regimes in Mato Grosso do Sul (2000-2016)
  • 11.1 The Interrelations of Bioeconomy, Brazilian Sugarcane and Social Inequalities
  • 11.2 Towards an Analytical Framework of Unequal Access to Labour and Land
  • 11.2.1 Social Inequalities as Asymmetrical Access to Labour and Land
  • 11.2.2 Labour Regimes as Combining Access to Labour and Land
  • 11.3 The Brazilian Sugarcane Sector and Its Recent Changes
  • 11.4 The Impact of the Expansion of the Sugarcane Industry on Access to Labour and Land
  • 11.4.1 Wage Work: Mechanisation, Employment Creation and Unemployment
  • 11.4.2 Subsistence Work: Land Prices and Access to Land
  • 11.5 Discussion and Outlook: Labour Regimes in Sugarcane Industry Expansion
  • References
  • 12 Territorial Changes Around Biodiesel: A Case Study of North-Western Argentina
  • 12.1 Introduction
  • 12.2 Theoretical and Methodological Framework
  • 12.3 Agrofuels Production in Argentina.
  • 12.4 Territorial Changes Due to Agribusiness in North-Western Argentina
  • 12.5 Biodiesel and the Impacts of Agroindustry in Santiago Del Estero
  • 12.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Part V The Extractive Side of the Global Biomass Sourcing
  • 13 Contested Resources and South-South Inequalities: What Sino-Brazilian Trade Means for the "Low-Carbon" Bioeconomy
  • 13.1 Introduction: Bioeconomy and South-South Inequalities
  • 13.2 South-South Cooperation and Energy Consumption
  • 13.3 Going Global? Brazil Pushes for a "Low-Carbon" Bioeconomy
  • 13.4 Carbon-Intensive: Sino-Brazilian Trade from a Bioeconomy Perspective
  • 13.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • 14 Sustaining the European Bioeconomy: The Material Base and Extractive Relations of a Bio-Based EU-Economy
  • 14.1 European Bioeconomy-Global Biomass Sourcing?
  • 14.2 The Capitalist World System, Extractivism and Extractive Relations
  • 14.3 Biomass Flows and the EU-Economy Today
  • 14.4 Projections for a European Bioeconomy
  • 14.5 Questioning the Transnational Sustainability in the European Bioeconomy
  • References
  • 15 Towards an Extractivist Bioeconomy? The Risk of Deepening Agrarian Extractivism When Promoting Bioeconomy in Argentina
  • 15.1 Introduction: Argentina as a Bioeconomy Pioneer
  • 15.2 Agrarian Extractivism as a Tool for Analysing Argentina's Bioeconomy
  • 15.3 The Expansion of Soybean as Agrarian Extractivism in Argentina
  • 15.4 Argentina's Expectations for the Bioeconomy
  • 15.4.1 Biotechnology, Fertilizers, Pesticides and no-till Farming as a Key Basis of Bioeconomy
  • 15.4.2 Agro-Industrialization and "Adding Value" as a Key Goal Within Bioeconomy
  • 15.4.3 On Sustainable Innovations and Counter-Tendencies to Agrarian Extractivism
  • 15.5 Conclusion: Towards an Extractive Bioeconomy?
  • References
  • Index.

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