The Rise of Green Extractivism: Extractivism, Rural Livelihoods and Accumulation in a Climate-Smart World [Paperback]

1. Introduction  2. The Theoretical Underpinnings of the Intersection of Extractivism and Climate Change Solutions  3. Historical Background and the Role of the State  4. From a Threat to an Opportunity: Climate Change as the New Frontier of Accumulation  5. Land of Plenty, Land of Misery: Synergistic Resource Grabbing in Mozambique  6. The Rise of Green Extractivism  7. Understanding Livelihoods, Social Reproduction and Reactions  8. Conclusion

The Rise of Green Extractivism tackles the understudied interconnections between extractivism and climate-smart policies and their implications for rural livelihoods, both theoretically and empirically.

The Rise of Green Extractivism tackles the understudied interconnections between extractivism and climate-smart policies and their implications for rural livelihoods, both theoretically and empirically.

This new variation of extractivism arises as an innovative way in which capitalist production and accumulation unfolds and constitutes a convenient analytical tool in today's focus on reducing or compensating for emissions. The book consolidates 'extractivism' as a theoretical framework that fully challenges contemporary capitalisms dynamics, particularly in the current global environmental crisis. It explores new dynamics of accumulation, resource grabbing and legitimation strategies. These are approached as mechanisms of appropriation of resources that produce social, economic and ecological implications to be considered in the current agrarian question debates. By analysing the implementation and outcomes of green policies, the author shows that new strategies of capital accumulation arise through the creation of new commodities, markets, vehicles of accumulation and ways of legitimising capital accumulation. A new and 'greener' frontier of accumulation is clã’