ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the theoretical framework. It offers a review of theoretical underpinning regarding the political economy and ecology of land, labour and nature as the base to understand extractivism and its intersection with environmental policies solutions for the current crisis. Both the process of extractivism and resource grabbing dynamics will be analysed taking into account the triad – land, labour and nature. Processes and outcomes of resource grabbing in a context of converging crises manifest themselves in new and innovative ways and mostly behind ‘green discourses’; similar to extractivist projects, those are also based on asymmetric and uneven social, economic and ecological relations that accommodate resource grabbing. But the links and intersections of climate change policies, resource grabbing and global processes of accumulation based on extractivist schemes have also not yet been theoretically fully tackled. So a more coherent, integrated and consolidated theoretical and empirical understanding of extractivism is still needed; and the theoretical tools that will allow us to answer to that call are discussed throughout this chapter.
