[PDF][PDF] Desalination in the 21st century: a critical review of trends and debates

J Williams - Water Alternatives, 2022 - water-alternatives.org
Desalination–or the creation of'new'water by removing salt and impurities from saline,
brackish or contaminated water–has transformed water resource management in many parts …

[PDF][PDF] Water, finance and financialisation: A review

N Reis, G Vargas Magaña… - Water …, 2024 - water-alternatives.org
This article reviews the literature on the financialisation of water. Water financialisation is
generally defined as a global trend wherein financial actors, instruments and practices …

Flex commodities and intertwining world-ecologies: Indonesian palm waste as an environmental fix in the New Zealand dairy industry

PK Gellert, S D'Onofrio - Political Geography, 2024 - Elsevier
Palm kernel expeller (PKE), a by-product of the palm oil production process in Indonesia,
has evolved into a billion-dollar export 'flex'commodity to feed cows in intensified dairy …

[PDF][PDF] Dependency, techno-optimism and climate adaptation

BF O'Neill, AL Boyer - Water Alternatives, 2023 - water-alternatives.org
Desalination (producing potable water from saline sources) has gained notoriety globally as
climate change threatens water supplies. Strikingly, Arizona–a territory lacking coastal …

Water for whom? Desalination and the cooptation of the environmental justice frame in Southern California

BF O'Neill - Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The environmental justice frame is a key feature of successful grassroots mobilization
against the uneven distribution of environmental problems. However, what happens when …

Coping with scarcity: The construction of the water conservation imperative in newspapers (1999–2018)

AL Boyer, YF Le Lay, P Marty - Global Environmental Change, 2021 - Elsevier
As water-stressed areas are expanding worldwide due to climate change, water
conservation has become an important tool for managing water resources in drought …

Capitalizing on green debt: A world-ecology analysis of green bonds in the Brazilian forestry sector

T Ferrando, GDO Junqueira… - Journal of World …, 2021 - jwsr.pitt.edu
Green bonds represent an increasingly popular way to match “environmental sustainability,”
growth, and the aspirations of global financial capital. In this article, we leverage a world …

Desalination as a new frontier of environmental justice struggle: A dialogue with Oscar Rodriguez and Andrea León-Grossmann

BF O'Neill - Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This interview begins a conversation about the social justice implications of an emerging
socioecological concern—the desalination industry. Seawater desalination is the industrial …

Progress in understanding the social dimensions of desalination and future research directions

BF O'Neill, J Williams - Global Environmental Change, 2024 - Elsevier
The piece outlines the contributions of key works in the field of the political ecology of
desalination over the past decade. We note that the field is diverse in terms of contributions …

Demystifying the Global 'Just Transition'—On Power Struggles and Electric Mountains

BF O'Neill, M Jerome Schneider - 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
What is the nature of the recent and intense global interest1 in green/sustainable
technologies and infrastructure on the part of the private sector? This is a central question for …