Who are the victims of low-carbon transitions? Towards a political ecology of climate change mitigation

BK Sovacool - Energy Research & Social Science, 2021 - Elsevier
This study critically examines 20 years of geography and political ecology literature on the
energy justice implications of climate change mitigation. Grounded in an expert guided …

[HTML][HTML] Clean, low-carbon but corrupt? Examining corruption risks and solutions for the renewable energy sector in Mexico, Malaysia, Kenya and South Africa

BK Sovacool - Energy Strategy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
A decarbonized global energy sector is expected to need cumulative investments in the tens
to hundreds of trillions of dollars between now and 2050. Due to its size, the current climate …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental justice and the SDGs: from synergies to gaps and contradictions

M Menton, C Larrea, S Latorre, J Martinez-Alier… - Sustainability …, 2020 - Springer
Through their synergies, trade-offs, and contradictions, the sustainable development goals
(SDGs) have the potential to lead to environmental justices and injustices. Yet …

Green colonialism in the Nordic context: Exploring Southern Saami representations of wind energy development

S Normann - Journal of community psychology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper explores social representations of wind energy development within reindeer
herding lands among the Indigenous Southern Saami living within Norwegian borders. For …

'Murderous energy'in Oaxaca, Mexico: wind factories, territorial struggle and social warfare

A Dunlap, MC Arce - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines the struggle against the new Électricité de France (EDF) wind park,
Gunaa Sicarú, in Unión Hidalgo (UH), Mexico. Foregrounding Indigenous land defense, the …

The evolving techniques of the social engineering of extraction: Introducing political (re) actions 'from above'in large-scale mining and energy projects

J Verweijen, A Dunlap - Political Geography, 2021 - Elsevier
Ecological catastrophe and global inequality are pressing, yet socio-ecologically destructive
natural resource extraction continues unabated. This special issue explores the strategies …

Volatile photovoltaics: green industrialization, sacrifice zones, and the political ecology of solar energy in Germany

A Brock, BK Sovacool, A Hook - Annals of the American …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The development of solar energy has been depicted as a paradigmatic break in
unsustainable global growth, largely because it is framed as an innovation with minimal …

[图书][B] Our extractive age: Expressions of violence and resistance

J Shapiro, JA McNeish - 2021 - library.oapen.org
Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum
of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective …

[HTML][HTML] The green economy as counterinsurgency, or the ontological power affirming permanent ecological catastrophe

A Dunlap - Environmental Science & Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
As old as industrialism or civilization itself, socio-ecological problems are nothing new.
Despite all efforts to resolve environmental dilemmas, socio-ecological catastrophe has only …

The politics of ecocide, genocide and megaprojects: interrogating natural resource extraction, identity and the normalization of erasure

A Dunlap - The Genocide-Ecocide Nexus, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
At the root of techno-capitalist development–popularly marketed as “modernity,”“progress” or
“development”–is the continuous and systematic processes of natural resource extraction …