| Imprint: |
Fábio Castro, Barbara Hogenboom, Michiel Baud (eds.), 2016 |
| Description: |
28 pàg. |
| Abstract: |
The natural resource conflict dimension of environmental governance is usually centred on the social and political aspects of production systems and has hardly addressed the biophysical features of the natural resources themselves. Here we aim to address renewable and non-renewable resource-extraction conflicts in Latin America in the context of a changing global social metabolism and increasing demands for environmental justice (M'Gonigle, 1999; Sneddon, Howarth and Norgaard, 2006; Gerber, Veuthey and Martínez-Alier, 2009; Martinez-Alier et al. , 2010). "Social metabolism" refers to the manner in which human societies organize their growing exchanges of energy and materials with the environment (Fischer-Kowalski, 1997; Martinez-Alier, 2009). In this chapter we use a sociometabolic approach to examine the material flows (extraction, exports, imports) of Latin American economies and furthermore look into the socioenvironmental pressures and conflicts that they cause. Sociometabolic trends can be appraised using different and complementary indicators. For instance, the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP) measures to what extent human activities appropriate the biomass available each year for ecosystems (Haberl et al. , 2007). Other examples are indicators that study virtual water flows, the energy return on investment (EROI) or a product life cycle. |
| Rights: |
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| Language: |
Anglès |
| Document: |
Capítol de llibre ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
| Subject: |
Affordable and Clean Energy |
| Published in: |
Environmental Governance in Latin America, 2016, p. 58-85, ISBN 978-1-137-50572-9 |
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