Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities : : Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021. ©2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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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&
- 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.