Beschreibung:
This study deals with land-based resources and the role they play in the global socio-ecological metabolic regime, both now and in the future. In particular, the controversial use of agrofuels as a solution to coming scarcity is subjected to close scrutiny.
1. The Importance of Land 2. Land Use Scenarios for Agrofuels and Nine Billion People 3. Regulating Land Use for Agrofuels: The Case of Brazil 4. Framing Unequal Exchange 5. Weak and Strong Measures of the Nature - Economy Interface 6. Measures and Interpretations of Ecologically Unequal Exchange 7. Obvious and Obscure Displacements 8. The Argument Revisited: The Return to the Land References