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Capitalism and the commons : just commons in the era of multiple crises
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ISBN: 0367822830 1000337146 1000337081 9780367822835 9781000337112 1000337111 9781000337082 9781000337143 9780367420024 Year: 2021 Publisher: London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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"Capitalism and the Commons focuses on land-based commons, the political and social perspectives they offer, how the commons are appropriated by capital and state, and how these appropriations are contested, and transformed by social initiatives and movements. The book has three main themes: conceptualizing the commons; analyzing practices of commoning; and exploring commons politics. It also focuses on the development of anti-capitalist commons and explores the issue of practice and politics through case studies from Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Austria, India, Indonesia and South Korea, ranging from peri-urban and rural agriculture to family and community gardens, to forests and water, as well as more general struggles for green or urban commons and how these manifest in the Global South as well as in the Global North. The book clarifies that not all discourses on the commons serve the profound social change necessary and instead reinvigorates the political meaning of the commons. It provides an original and important approach to the topic in terms of conceptualization, detailing diverse empirical realities, and analyzing potential policy directions. The book has both a historical and a contemporary angle, transcends narrow disciplinary boundaries, and provides a global focus. Providing a fresh perspective on the commons as a decisive component of alternatives this title will be relevant to students and scholars of resource management, social movements and sustainable development more broadly"--


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Land and resource scarcity : capitalism, struggle and well-being in a world without fossil fuels
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ISBN: 9781138900950 1138900958 Year: 2013 Publisher: London: Routledge,

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This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors to this volume argue that these scarcities will put an end to the capitalist system as we know it and alternatives must be created. The book combines natural science with emancipatory thinking, focusing on bottom up alternatives and social struggles to change the world by taking action. The volume introduces original contributions to the debates on peak oil, land grabbing and social alternatives, thus creating a synthesis to gain an overview of the multiple crises of our times.The book sets out to analyse how crises of energy, climate, metals, minerals and the soil relate to the global land grab which has accelerated greatly since 2008, as well as to examine the crisis of profit production and political legitimacy. Based on a theoretical understanding of the multiple crises and the effects of peak oil and other scarcities on capital accumulation, the contributors explore the social innovations that provide an alternative.Using the most up to date research on resource crises, this integrative and critical analysis brings together the issues with a radical perspective on possibilites for future change as well as a strong social economic and ethical dimesion. The book should be of interest to researchers and students of environmental policy, politics, sustainable development and natural resource management.


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Kritische Metalle in der Großen Transformation
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ISBN: 3662448394 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer Spektrum,

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Das Buch weitet den Blick über die kurzfristige Verfügbarkeit von kritischen Metallen auf die grundlegende Frage: Kritisch für wen? Die Autoren nehmen alle Akteure in den Blick und behandeln geologische, chemische, technische, ökonomische und soziale Aspekte wie auch Fragen des Recyclings und verbinden diese. Auch auf Fragen nach dem guten Leben und des Bergbaus aus der Sicht von Ländern des Südens, Fragen der Ressourcenpolitik und -gerechtigkeit gehen sie ein. Ein weiteres Thema sind das UN-Tiefseebergbauregime und dessen Perspektiven, wie sich zukünftig unkonventionell Erz aus der Tiefsee gewinnen lässt. Kritische Metalle werden in den übergreifenden Zusammenhang der anstehenden Großen Transformation eingeordnet. Das Buch beleuchtet insbesondere die grundlegende Bedeutung der stofflichen Voraussetzungen der Energiewende und die energetischen Voraussetzungen der Stoffwende wie auch der Digitalisierung. Damit lässt sich zeigen, dass nicht nur seltene Erden kritisch sind, sonde rn ebenso Industriemetalle wie etwa Kupfer. Ressourcenpolitik zielt unter anderem auf Sicherung der Primärversorgung mit Technologiemetallen, auf Ressourceneffizienz, Recycling und Substitution kritischer Stoffe. Trotz erster Erfolge ist die Dynamik in Richtung einer zunehmenden Dissipation wertvoller kritischer Metalle ungebrochen. Nötig ist eine rasche Umsteuerung mit dem Ziel, kritische Metalle nicht länger im großen Stil zu verbrauchen, sondern sie klug zu gebrauchen. Die Herausgeber Mag. rer. nat. Andreas Exner, Projektmitarbeiter am Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Wien. Dr. rer. pol. Martin Held, Studienleiter Wirtschaft und nachhaltige Entwicklung, Evangelische Akademie Tutzing. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Klaus Kümmerer, Direktor Institut für Nachhaltige Chemie und Umweltchemie, Professur für Nachhaltige Chemie und Stoffliche Ressourcen, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg.     .


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Umkämpftes Grün
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ISBN: 3837635899 3839435897 Year: 2017 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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La décroissance économique : pour la soutenabilité écologique et l'équité sociale
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ISBN: 9782914968645 2914968647 Year: 2009 Publisher: Bellecombe-en-Bauges: Éditions du Croquant,

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Umkämpftes Grün : Zwischen neoliberaler Stadtentwicklung und Stadtgestaltung von unten

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Platformization of Urban Life : Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities

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The increasing platformisation of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labour activism into dialogue. The contributors engage with the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.


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Smart City - Kritische Perspektiven auf die Digitalisierung in Städten : Digitale Technologien, Raumproduktion, Intervention

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