ABSTRACT
This handbook provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of global land and resource grabbing.
Global land and resource grabbing has become an increasingly prominent topic in academic circles, among development practitioners, human rights advocates, and in policy arenas. The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing sustains this intellectual momentum by advancing methodological, theoretical and empirical insights. It presents and discusses resource grabbing research in a holistic manner by addressing how the rush for land and other natural resources, including water, forests and minerals, is intertwined with agriculture, mining, tourism, energy, biodiversity conservation, climate change, carbon markets, and conflict. The handbook is truly global and interdisciplinary, with case studies from the Global South and Global North, and chapter contributions from practitioners, activists and academics, with emerging and Indigenous authors featuring strongly across the chapters.
The handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in land and resource grabbing, agrarian studies, development studies, critical human geography, global studies and natural resource governance.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|44 pages
Historical Trajectories of Land and Resource Grabbing
chapter 2|12 pages
From the Colonial Doctrine of Discovery to Contemporary Land Grabs
chapter 3|14 pages
Riro Whenua Atu, Hoki Whenua Mai
chapter 4|16 pages
Ruptures and Continuities
part 2|47 pages
Enabling Mechanisms and Governance of Land and Resource Grabbing
chapter 6|15 pages
The Rule of Technocrats?
part 3|45 pages
Large-Scale Land Acquisitions for Food, Feed and Biofuels
chapter 8|15 pages
Sugar Agro-Extractivism
part 4|63 pages
Taking Land for Conservation, Eco-Tourism, Renewable Energy and Carbon Markets
chapter 12|16 pages
Towards Climate-Smart Land Policy
chapter 13|16 pages
Renewables Grabbing
chapter 14|15 pages
Geospatial Technologies in Tourism Land and Resource Grabs
part 5|44 pages
Land Grabbing by Extractive Industries
chapter 15|11 pages
Arctic Resource Extraction in the Context of Climate Crises and Ecological Collapses
chapter 16|15 pages
Territorial Control, Dispossession and Resistance
chapter 17|16 pages
Phosphate Mining in Distant Places
part 6|65 pages
Blue Grabbing
chapter 20|18 pages
Resource Grabbing and the Blue Commons
part 7|42 pages
Land Grabs for Large Infrastructure Projects
chapter 23|13 pages
Large Infrastructure Projects and Cascading Land Grabs
chapter 24|15 pages
The Great ‘Anti-politics’ Progress Machine
part 8|42 pages
Urban Land Grabs and Special Economic Zones
chapter 27|14 pages
Transnational NGO Advocacy to Address Land Grabbing Injustices
part 9|53 pages
Land and Resource Grabbing