Fairness and Justice in Natural Resource Politics

Pichler, Mélanie; Staritz, Cornelia; Küblböck, Karin; Plank, Christina; Raza, Werner; Peyré, Fernando Ruíz

doi:10.4324/9781315638058

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“…Ulrich Brand, Christoph Gorg, and others have used the strategic-relational approach to explore barriers to transitioning to sustainable economies (Görg et al, 2017) as well as to examine environmental governance at national and international spatial scales (Brand and Görg, 2008; Brand et al, 2008, 2011). Plank (2017) uses it to inform a study of the agrofuel industry in the Ukraine, while Pichler engages it to examine sustainability certification processes for palm oil producers in South East Asia (Pichler, 2013) and movements for socio-ecological justice (Pichler, 2017).…”

Section: Nicos Poulantzas’ Theory Of the Capitalist Statementioning

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“Regulatory capture” and “extractive hegemony”: the relevance of Nicos Poulantzas’ theory of the state to contemporary environmental politics in Canada

Bernauer

2020

Human Geography

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This paper considers the relevance of Nicos Poulantzas’ theory of the state to debates about hydrocarbon extraction and environmental assessment in Canada. I begin with a brief summary of Poulanztas’ work, followed by an overview of the politics of hydrocarbon extraction in Canada. Next, I examine recent public policy debates about the assessment and regulation of energy extraction in Canada. These debates, which focus on the concept of “regulatory capture,” fall victim to many of the problems Poulantzas identifies with instrumentalist approaches to the state. Critical accounts of regulatory capture have helped expose the fact that oil companies exercise an incredible degree of control over the Canadian state. However, it offers limited guidance for long-term strategies to confront extractive capital. In the section on “Environmental assessment and extractive hegemony,” I draw on Poulantzas to examine recent academic debates about the role of environmental assessment in the reproduction of extractive capitalism in Canada. Scholars have shown a more nuanced understanding of the power dynamics at play in the assessment and regulation of energy projects in Canada. Nevertheless, engagement with Poulantzas’ work can help deepen and expand these critiques, especially his emphasis on the role of state-organized material concessions in producing consent to capitalism.

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Section: Nicos Poulantzas’ Theory Of the Capitalist Statementioning

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“Regulatory capture” and “extractive hegemony”: the relevance of Nicos Poulantzas’ theory of the state to contemporary environmental politics in Canada

Bernauer

2020

Human Geography

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“…Neither the long-term feasibility-and thus biophysical constraints-nor questions of justice and (global) inequalities can be ignored for any transformation towards sustainability that take this term seriously. As conflicts over access and control of natural resources are becoming more prevalent in the future, resource fairness and justice becomes a major topic of SETs, both between and within countries [70]. Several concepts exist to analyse such large scale and long term perspectives, e.g., unequal ecological exchange between countries [69], and the unequal carbon footprint of households within China [71].…”

Section: Sociometabolic Transitions and Social-ecological Constraintsmentioning

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Challenges for Social-Ecological Transformations: Contributions from Social and Political Ecology

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Transformation has become a major topic of sustainability research. This opens up new perspectives, but at the same time, runs the danger to convert into a new critical orthodoxy which narrows down analytical perspectives. Most research is committed towards a political-strategic approach towards transformation. This focus, however, clashes with ongoing transformation processes towards un-sustainability. The paper presents cornerstones of an integrative approach to social-ecological transformations (SET), which builds upon empirical work and conceptual considerations from Social Ecology and Political Ecology. We argue that a critical understanding of the challenges for societal transformations can be advanced by focusing on the interdependencies between societies and the natural environment. This starting point provides a more realistic understanding of the societal and biophysical constraints of sustainability transformations by emphasising the crisis-driven and contested character of the appropriation of nature and the power relations involved. Moreover, it pursues a transdisciplinary mode of research, decisive for adequately understanding any strategy for transformations towards sustainability. Such a conceptual approach of SET is supposed to better integrate the analytical, normative and political-strategic dimension of transformation research. We use the examples of global land use patterns, neo-extractivism in Latin America and the global water crisis to clarify our approach.

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“…Linked to the access to and control over resources and the role of extractive sectors in (transnational) production and consumption networks are questions of inequality and justice [77]. This strand of research has centered on who stands to benefit economically and socially from resource extraction and who carries the socio-ecological costs, including, for example, pollution, loss of land, or health impacts [78].…”

Section: Inequality and Justicementioning

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Extractive Economies in Material and Political Terms: Broadening the Analytical Scope

Schaffartzik

Pichler

2017

Sustainability

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In order to curb environmental impact, absolute resource use reductions are urgently needed. To reach this goal, multi-scalar synergies and trade-offs in global resource use must be effectively addressed. We propose that better understanding the role of extractive economieseconomies that extract raw material for export-in global resource use patterns is a prerequisite to identifying such synergies and trade-offs. By combining a system-wide environmental accounting perspective with insights from political ecology and political economy research, we demonstrate that (1) the extractivist expansion may be the corollary of reduced immediate environmental impact in the industrialized countries; and (2) the material flow patterns on which this result is based do not suffice to identify the mechanisms underlying extractivist development and its role in global resource use. Our work on extractive economies illustrates that, in order to supply transformative knowledge for sustainability transformation, biophysical and socio-political conceptualizations of society-nature relations must be more strongly integrated within the interdisciplinary sustainability sciences in general and social ecology in particular.

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Fairness and Justice in Natural Resource Politics

Cited by 15 publications

References 160 publications

“Regulatory capture” and “extractive hegemony”: the relevance of Nicos Poulantzas’ theory of the state to contemporary environmental politics in Canada

“Regulatory capture” and “extractive hegemony”: the relevance of Nicos Poulantzas’ theory of the state to contemporary environmental politics in Canada

Challenges for Social-Ecological Transformations: Contributions from Social and Political Ecology

Extractive Economies in Material and Political Terms: Broadening the Analytical Scope

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