The Appropriation of Ecological Space Agrofuels, unequal exchange and environmental load displacements Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics Series
Auteur : Hermele Kenneth
Although it is recognised that Thomas Robert Malthus was wrong when he posited a contradiction between population increase and agricultural growth, there are increasing signs that he could be proved right in the future. Perhaps Malthus was too late and too early in his prediction?
He was too late, because he did not foresee the shift from land-based resources to fossil fuels, outing an end to the limits of agricultural growth, at least temporarily; and he was too early to witness that fossil fuels would come up against their own limits in terms of supply as well as in terms of global warming.
This study deals with land-based resources and the role they play in the global socio-ecological metabolic regime, both now and in the future. In particular, the controversial use of agrofuels as a solution to coming scarcity is subjected to close scrutiny.
Kenneth Hermele is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Universities of Lund and Gothenburg, Sweden. He received his PhD in Human Ecology from the University of Lund.
Date de parution : 07-2013
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Date de parution : 06-2016
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Thèmes de The Appropriation of Ecological Space :
Mots-clés :
Carbon Capture; Human Ecology; Agrofuels; Land Grabbing; Neoliberalism; Land Use; Carbon Trading; Climate Change; Conservation; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Discounting; Environmental Finance; Environmental Policy; Game Theory; Global Warming; Permit Trading; Sustainability; Sustainable Development; Pr Ic; Young Men; Ne Ga; Environmental Load Displacements; Domestic Technology Assumption; Land Based Resources; Ozone Layer Depletion; Brazilian Sugarcane Ethanol; Prebisch Singer Hypothesis; Brazilian Forest Code; Land Areas; Cane Cutters; Physical Trade Balances; Metabolic Regime; Ecological Space; Agrofuel Feedstocks; Materials Flow Analysis; Socio-ecological Metabolic; Agro Food Regime; Indirect Flows; EU Red; Agrofuel Production; Rail Road; Forest Code; Water Footprint